Hey all,
Sorry for not keeping you in the loop of the new beer Rye-Becky but we had to keep it a sceret.
Rod and Becky are some of our long time regulars and Becky was having a suprize...well lets say it was a milestone...birthday in the Jimmy Lapanza Lounge on Sunday. So for her birthday Rod and I came up wiht a beer that was right in her wheelhouse. A Rye IPA. The beer has big rye body and big rye spicyness with some great hop flavorand and aromas from Summit, Galena. Then the beer was dryhopped with Summit, Galena and CTZ for some extra hop aroma.
So some on in and try one druing the Frankenstorm. And if you see Becky say happy bithday to her.
Cheers,
Tyler
Monday, October 29, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
What a great weekend!
Hey all,
So this weekend was a perfect weekend to be out and about. And by the amount of beer changes that happened this weekend, it looks like a lot of you came on in to the Portsmouth Brewery.
The O'fest, Project X and Pumpkin all kicked this weekend and were replaced with Saison d'Automne, pHunkin and Smuttynose's Homunculus respectivly.
The Saison d'Autome is a Saison that we brewed with 100# of butternut squash. We were sick of Pumpkin getting all the praise in the fall for the only beer you can make with a gourd. This Saison has really nice body to it from the use of the squash, and a very nice spicy note from the yeast strain used.
The pHunkin is a new beer for us. It is a American sour Pumpkin Ale. I promiuse you that it is unlike any pumpkin ale you have had before. The sour kettle technique gave a very nice fruity tartness up front that mellows as you drink it to a earthy body to the beer. If you are into sour beers, give this one a try.
Suttynose's Homunculus is a newer big beer from them. It is a hoppy Belgian pale/ipa and you can read all about it here. Make sure to share it with your gnomies!
Cheers,
Tyler
So this weekend was a perfect weekend to be out and about. And by the amount of beer changes that happened this weekend, it looks like a lot of you came on in to the Portsmouth Brewery.
The O'fest, Project X and Pumpkin all kicked this weekend and were replaced with Saison d'Automne, pHunkin and Smuttynose's Homunculus respectivly.
The Saison d'Autome is a Saison that we brewed with 100# of butternut squash. We were sick of Pumpkin getting all the praise in the fall for the only beer you can make with a gourd. This Saison has really nice body to it from the use of the squash, and a very nice spicy note from the yeast strain used.
The pHunkin is a new beer for us. It is a American sour Pumpkin Ale. I promiuse you that it is unlike any pumpkin ale you have had before. The sour kettle technique gave a very nice fruity tartness up front that mellows as you drink it to a earthy body to the beer. If you are into sour beers, give this one a try.
Suttynose's Homunculus is a newer big beer from them. It is a hoppy Belgian pale/ipa and you can read all about it here. Make sure to share it with your gnomies!
Cheers,
Tyler
Monday, October 15, 2012
You down with IPP????
Hey all,
Some taps shifts are happing. We have the 3 kegs of Souther Tier's 2X Milk Stout that made it into the state. the 7.5% abv beer has some nice roasty/coffee flavors of set by a slight sweetness in the finish.
The Oatmeal stout kicked so it is time for the Imperial Pumpkin Porter which is a 9.9% abv pumpkin ale. We again used 100#'s of beautiful Dickenson Pumpkins from Blueberry Bay Farms in Stratham NH. Rather then jsut making your normal pumpkin ale we decided to kick it up a bit. Using a Imperial Porter recipie base and then finishing the beer with Cacao Nibs in the secondary. Unlike any Pumpkin Beer you have tried.
cheers,
Tyler
Some taps shifts are happing. We have the 3 kegs of Souther Tier's 2X Milk Stout that made it into the state. the 7.5% abv beer has some nice roasty/coffee flavors of set by a slight sweetness in the finish.
The Oatmeal stout kicked so it is time for the Imperial Pumpkin Porter which is a 9.9% abv pumpkin ale. We again used 100#'s of beautiful Dickenson Pumpkins from Blueberry Bay Farms in Stratham NH. Rather then jsut making your normal pumpkin ale we decided to kick it up a bit. Using a Imperial Porter recipie base and then finishing the beer with Cacao Nibs in the secondary. Unlike any Pumpkin Beer you have tried.
cheers,
Tyler
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Lindz tapping....
Hey all,
We are going to be getting a couple of kegs of Smuttynose's short batch of Lindz in soon. We will be one of the spots precipitating in the statewide tapping in memory of our good friend Lindsey Altshul on Oct 18th.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Lindsey I think Smuttynose blog post sums it up pretty well. Everyone has their memory/story of Lindsey and his passing was sad for many of us. He will always hold a special spot in my life. Not only because he was the man who handed my wife her engagement ring at Pepperland Cafe for me. But his friendship and love for quality food and drink made me realize that i didn't just want to be a brewer for a living - I wanted to make the highest of quality beer I possibly could for a living! You are missed Lindz.
Cheers,
Tyler Jones
We are going to be getting a couple of kegs of Smuttynose's short batch of Lindz in soon. We will be one of the spots precipitating in the statewide tapping in memory of our good friend Lindsey Altshul on Oct 18th.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Lindsey I think Smuttynose blog post sums it up pretty well. Everyone has their memory/story of Lindsey and his passing was sad for many of us. He will always hold a special spot in my life. Not only because he was the man who handed my wife her engagement ring at Pepperland Cafe for me. But his friendship and love for quality food and drink made me realize that i didn't just want to be a brewer for a living - I wanted to make the highest of quality beer I possibly could for a living! You are missed Lindz.
Cheers,
Tyler Jones
Friday, October 5, 2012
Fall beers....
Hey all,
The fall beers are hitting the taps hard and fast lately. We had the HHI go on a little while ago and now in the past two days we have the Octoberfest as well as the Pumpkin Ale on. All of these beers came out great this year. The HHI with its wet Cascade and Chinook hops from Maine, has the best of both hops. Nice big piney aromatic with the citrus rind flavor of the Cascade coming though in the flavor. It has been drank pretty heavily over the week and is about half gone already so if you haven’t tried it come and get it before it goes away.
I have a double batch (14bbls) of both the October fest and the Pumpkin Ale so that should last a couple of weeks at least. The Oktoberfest is true to style having that great Munich malt cracker flavor that dissipates to a very clean finish because of the lagering. Really loving this beer right now.
The Pumpkin Ale is different then most pumpkin beers out there. The "pumpkin" beers form the big guys out there, more often then not, doesn’t even have pumpkin in the beer. If you get lucky they might wave a can of pumpkin puree over the mash tun. They are light bodied and highly spiced. We take a different approach here at Portsmouth Brewery. Since we uses fresh pumpkin in the beer we have to wait until the pumpkins are ready. Which puts us way behind on our release date of the beer...but it is well worth the wait. We use 100# of Dickinson Pumpkins from Blueberry Bay farms in Stratum. We shred them and then hand toss them into the mash as we are brewing. Then we lightly spice the beer to let the pumpkin flavor come though and just give a nice balance to the beer.
We do have cinnamon sugar available to rim your glass...but PLEASE at least try the beer with out it because it really doesn’t need all the extra accouterments.
cheers,
Tyler
The fall beers are hitting the taps hard and fast lately. We had the HHI go on a little while ago and now in the past two days we have the Octoberfest as well as the Pumpkin Ale on. All of these beers came out great this year. The HHI with its wet Cascade and Chinook hops from Maine, has the best of both hops. Nice big piney aromatic with the citrus rind flavor of the Cascade coming though in the flavor. It has been drank pretty heavily over the week and is about half gone already so if you haven’t tried it come and get it before it goes away.
I have a double batch (14bbls) of both the October fest and the Pumpkin Ale so that should last a couple of weeks at least. The Oktoberfest is true to style having that great Munich malt cracker flavor that dissipates to a very clean finish because of the lagering. Really loving this beer right now.
The Pumpkin Ale is different then most pumpkin beers out there. The "pumpkin" beers form the big guys out there, more often then not, doesn’t even have pumpkin in the beer. If you get lucky they might wave a can of pumpkin puree over the mash tun. They are light bodied and highly spiced. We take a different approach here at Portsmouth Brewery. Since we uses fresh pumpkin in the beer we have to wait until the pumpkins are ready. Which puts us way behind on our release date of the beer...but it is well worth the wait. We use 100# of Dickinson Pumpkins from Blueberry Bay farms in Stratum. We shred them and then hand toss them into the mash as we are brewing. Then we lightly spice the beer to let the pumpkin flavor come though and just give a nice balance to the beer.
We do have cinnamon sugar available to rim your glass...but PLEASE at least try the beer with out it because it really doesn’t need all the extra accouterments.
cheers,
Tyler
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