Rauchbier.. Ja!

Hey all,

Smutty pumpkin kicked and we replaced it with our Smoked Dunkelweizen. We home smoked 50#'s of malt for this beer using Crab Apple wood. This wood give a very unique smoke character to the beer. The traditional Rauchbier's use Beech wood smoked malt with give a very harsh and dry smoke flavor/aroma. With the Crab Apple wood you get a little of the fruitiness and some nice woodsy/earthy smoke flavor in the aroma and in the after taste. What better beer pairing for a herb roasted turkey... Or a smoked holiday ham... Or a apple cider and clove brine roasted Turkey... I think this list could go on for ever!

cheers,

Tyler

Cel-e-bra-tion beer is on... It's a celebration

Hey all ,

Sing the tittle of this blog post to the tune of "Celebration" by Kool & The Gang and it will make much more sense. Also this means that we have Sierra Nevada's Celebration on tap. This is one of our favorite beers that Sierra puts out every year and if you been coming to The Portsmouth Brewery for a while you know we try to get some every year. It is their winter seasonal but it isn't the normal winter beer that you think of all malty and spiced out. It is a hoppy beer that is well balanced out with some great malt flavors. A Super Pale Ale would be the description of the beer if you asked me.

Cheers,
Tyler

I was a little slow on the uptake..

Hey all,

I apologize for not keeping the blog updated for the past few days. We have been brewing Kate the Great, which is a very time consuming brew and leaves little time to do anything other then brew Kate the Great :)

So the tap line up changes:

Milk Stout has kicked and been replace with the Black Cat Stout

5 C's IPA is gone and we brought in some Smuttynose Pumpkin. I know what you are all thinking, "Sam's Winter is out, why put on a Pumpkin beer?" Because Thanksgiving hasn't even happened yet! The rush to put out the next seasonal drives me crazy. What will taste better with Thanksgiving dinner, a nice medium bodied ale spiced with pumpkin flavors, or a big malty beer that wont complement anything other then the dessert. You tell me.

Now for the Dunkel Gose, It went on Monday. If you got to try the Gose this summer you have an idea of how this is going to taste. Gose is an ancient German sour wheat beer that is brewed with coriander and salt. We get the sour characteristic from a partial sour mash rather then using the Pedio in the secondary. In the Dunkel version we bumped up the malt profile and added some caramel malts to give some color and a little malt sweetness. To compared it to any other beer is hard because I only know of one Dunkel Gose being brewed in the world (if you know of any others let me know), Goslarer Dunkel Gose brewed in Goslar Germany. Compared to that beer, ours is a little darker and a bit higher in alcohol (5.5% vs. 4.9%). Leave it to an American to take a traditional European beer style and bump up the body and alcohol.

Cheers,
Tyler

Last drops out of the carton...

Hey all,

I just checked the volumes in the serving tanks. Milk Stout is most likely going to kick today. So if you haven't tried it come in for lunch before the last drop of Milk is gone.

Cheers,

Tyler

Welcome back my old friend...

Hey all,

The Bottle Rocket IPA is back!!!! The Rye Not kicked last night, which i am sad to see go. Though it was replaced with our famous Bottle Rocket IPA. Now we have a hop heads dream of three IPA's on at the same time. Drink with cautions, because who knows how long the 5 C's IPA is going to last.

cheers,

Tyler