March 14, 2010
Well yesterday was a very interesting day for me at the brewery. It was a filtration day. The Zum Alt Dorf & the Big Dog Porter were filtered. I started carbonating them yesterday also. Today the will be finished carbonating and they should be on tap within a day or two. I actually have to wait for the Sierra Nevada Glissade to kick before the porter can go on since that’s the line it will be on.
The thing that made it so interesting was the experimental beer I made. I filled an firkin of Porter but instead of dry hopping it I added 4 pound of course ground Coffee. That’s right, we will have a Coffee Porter on the beer engine with a few weeks. As soon as I pick a date for that, I will put it on the events calender. That is also part of the experiment. How long should we let the Coffee cold brew in the firkin? At 4 pound of coffee that works out to be about .8 ounces of ground coffee per pint. To give you an idea you use 7-8 grams of coffee per shot of espresso. So this is about 3 shots of espresso in per pint. I am REALLY looking forward to trying this cask. ;p
BrewDay with Draught Board 15 Members
March 4, 2010
I’m sorry this has not been updated before now. It has been really crazy here. On Saturday February 20, 2010 I brewed the Eliminator. Our award winning Honey Double Mai Bock. This year I added a little twist. Draught Board 15 member were invited to help make this beer. 5 of them joined me. Dan, Vince, Liam, Gevon (G) & Doug. We started in morning with bagels & coffee and then got brewing. They helped with the mash and the boil. I had to climbing to the fermentor to scrub it since amazingly enough there were no volunteers for that. G, Vince & I took pictures and some videos. Here are some of them. The rest should be up on our pictures page and YouTube soon. We have done this before but not for a long time. We are going to try and set up 2 or 3 of these a year from now. I will be posting it have when we have some date and hopefully Vince will put it on the DB15 website.
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- Doug
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- Vince
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- Dan
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- Liam
We don’t seem to have a picture of G. He’s link a Ninja.
Bus Trip to Hunter Mt. For TAP-NY
March 2, 2010
For the past five years we have work with Draught Board 15 and gotten a bus to go to one the best beer festivals on the east coast. It is time again for that. Seats are limited so get your tickets early. We start off at the Gaslight for coffee and bagels. We then travel to Hunter Mt. watching movies, raffling off special bottles of beer and having a good time. Once we get to Hunter we will be enjoying beer for all over New York State. One of the special things about this festival is that food is included. It is being catered and the theme this year is BBQ.
This is always a great time & it always sells out. Tickets are $85 and there is a Draught Board 15 member discount.