Turkey day is comming...

Hey all,

With Thanksgiving coming fast i thought i was a perfect time for a couple of fun beers.  First off we put on the Mayflower Thanksgiving Ale.  this beer is an 8% abv old ale/american Strong ale that has been aged on toasted Oak just long enough to get some nice Vanilla Oak flavors in the meduim to ful bodied beer.   So nice to sip on during this cool weather we are getting. 

Secondly we put on a Dirty Blonde Cask that we added some fresh cranberries to.  This first cask we ruff copped and the muttled the crainberries.  It added a nice tart finish to the beer, but no color.  So we are making another one today where we are cooking the crainberies in the Dirty Blonde then adding that to the cask.  Hopfully this one will have the same nice tart finish, but pull out some of that red color.  My fingers are crossed.

cheers,
Tyler

Beer left over from Pour-nicopica...

Hey all,

There was a little bit of beer left over from Pour-nicopica on Wednesday.  You can find the beers in the Jimmy Lapanza Lounge on the extra taps.  The Hop Harvest 3 was hit hard and is already gone, but there is still some Pumpkin ale and Oktoberfest Lager ready for the weekend.

cheers,
Tyler

It made it around Africa...

 

Hey all, 

So everyone probably knows the story of how IPA came into existence.  The British were stationed in India and there low abv, low hop, beers were spoiling on the sea journey from England, around the tip of Africa and then to India.  So the Brewers decided to up the hopping and up the abv, both preservative qualities in a beer, and low and behold the beer made the journey.  So that got me thinking...it would take at least 3 months to sail from form England to India... So what would a 3 month old IPA cask taste like.  

So the last batch of Bottle Rocket IPA (brewed in August) I racked off a Cask of Bottle Rocket IPA, dryhopped it with Summit and let it hang out at cellar temperatures...until today.  If you come down the the Jimmy Lapanza Lounge tonight you can see what the sailors were drinking so many years ago. It held up amazingly, still lots of hop aromatic, but the bitterness is subdued just enough. 

Makes me want to do this again!  Let me know what you think. 

Cheers,

Tyler

It's a Battle of the Kilts....

Hey all!

So, it just so happens that our next beer for today's New Beer Friday is Portsmouth Brewery Scotch Ale.  We just tapped the first of two kegs of Smuttynose Scotch Ale yesterday.  So for New Beer Friday it is a battle.  The Portsmouth Brewery Scotch Ale is lighter in color with a little more pronounced smoked character and an added phenolic component really helps cut the cloying sweetness of the finish of the beer. 

But, I leave it up to you, dear reader.  May the best kilted beer win!  Let me know what you think here, on Facebook or Twitter.

Cheers,
Tyler