Pumpkin carving...

Hey all,

Make sure to carve a frowny faced jack-o-lantern because the Portsmouth Brewery's Pumpkin Ale is gone for the season. We replaced it with the Smoked Dunkelweizen. This beer features house apple wood smoked malt that comes trough right at the end of the swallow to enhance the phenolic characteristics that the Dunkelweizen already has. This is a great food paring beer, since you can use the malt sweetness to help quell any spicy food you might be enjoying, and the smoky/phenolic flavor and aromas go amazingly with grilled meats.

But don't you fret if you are a gourde beer lover, we still have a few tricks up our sleeves. The Saison d'Automne,that was made with Butternut squash, is conditioning and will be ready in a few more weeks. Plus Dogfish Head's Punkin'ale should be walking tough the door any minute now to replace the next beer that will kick.

I know you are going to start to see the winter beers hit the shelves soon at you local supermarket/bodega. Fight the machine! Fall beers are what we want to drink now! And will be fore a few more months :)

Cheers,
Tyler

I'm Back!

Hey all,

So I have been back for a few days now. there was so much to catch up on ate being gone for 15 days that this is my first time to have a few minutes to sit and fill you all in. I got married on October 1st to Rachel who i had been dating for 6 years already. So to answer the inevitable question...not to much has changed...other then my left hand feeling oddly heavy :) We headed up to Bah Habah, aka Bar Harbor if my down east accent didn't translate correctly, for the Honeymoon. We spent the days in Acadia National Park, hiking and biking, and the evenings eating and drinking our honeymoon away. We had an amazing time up there since it was our first time, but we both decided it wont be our last. I am excited to be back at P-brew making beer again. Not making beer for that long i went though a bit of withdrawals, but I feel back into it like I was riding a bike.

Since I've been back we have made the Biere de Garde, Le Chat Noir, Wheatwine and a Berliner Wiess. Nothing like some fun beers to get the brewing juices flowing again.

See you soon for a pint!
Cheers,
Tyler

Where's T$ anyway!!

Yes, all you beer lovers attuned to the P-Brew notes our Tyler Jones has been on his honeymoon with his sweetie,Rachel. The two were married in Chocorua NH on the first of the month and while they were off in the wilds of Maine we've been here holding down the fort. It seems that is about all I could do and was unable to blog because I leave that to the young ones. Plus Brian, our newest member of the P-brew brew squad, and I were busy trying to catch up with the movement of the ebb and flow of early Fall here in Portsmouth. So, lot's of beer changes in the last few days and hours...... Pumpkin replaced the Hop Harvest 2 (sad face :-{(} w/ mustache and clean beard) and is made with 200 pounds of organic Dickinson pumpkins from Blueberry Bay farm in Stratham NH. Gently spiced with ginger,cinnamon,allspice,nutmeg and cloves this beer is a gem of a vegetable beer with light aromatics and a easy medium body for drinkability. The Alt came on with the passing of the Octoberfest. This German style brown ale is conditioned to a dry finish. This ale starts with a malty medium body and ends with the kiss of hops making the finish nice and dry. Lastly, the Rye Not pale ale took the place of the Ginga Ninja. This crazy ale has 55% malted rye in the grist profile making it taste big and malty but not cloying. The finish is where the balance comes on and takes the beer to the next dimension with good hopping and a delightful finish. There are some great beers on now and we're hoping to keep the goodness coming with some great fall beers. Stay in tune and be on the lookout for Tyler's return tomorrow. Cheers! Todm

Where's the highschool French teacher when you need one...

Hey all,

So we made a new beer for this fall, a Fall Saison, which we used Butternut Squash in the mash and only spiced with a three peppercorn blend. I'm really excited to see how it is going to turn out. But now i want to name it correctly. With my English grammar/tenses already not my strong suit, how do you say "Fall Saison" in french?

Is is Saison Autumn, or Saison l'Autumn or Saison l'Automne, or has i missed it completely. Let me know.

Cheers,
Tyler

Uno, Dose, Tres... Catorce...

Hey all,

So that U2 song has always annoyed me. I know they were on a big South American tour when the song came out. I mean they were so big that Drama from Entourage finagled tickets to go see them during that tour. Go Aquaman! But any one that has pass 8th grade Spanish knows that they are saying 1, 2, 3... 14. Just one of those things that makes my neck tweak every time I hear it.

All that being said... Hop Harvest "Uno" went on tap last night! This is the Hop Harvest where we used locally grown Chinook Wet hops for. Big piney/spicy flavors with the resinous hop flavor helping enhance the malt sweetness

Cheers,
Tyler

Changing over beer..

hey all,

Just a heads up i am changing over the Milk Stout to Coffee Milk Stout as you read this. yummy!

Cheers,
Tyler

Get your Firkin drinking shoes on...

Hey all,

Firkin Friday is among us once again. Today we are tapping a Smuttynose Gravitation dry hopped with Saphir. The Firkin will be sitting on the end of the bar waiting for you. And we are using a technique from our brethren at Breckenridge Brewery. "Gravity activated pouring."

Cheers,
Tyler

GABF beers in the house...

Hey all,

So this is the time of year the beers coming on tap are beers we are sending to GABF (Great American Beer Festival). So new additions to the tap line up are the Gose and the Kolsch. Both are being sent to GABF along with the Coffee Milk Stout (that is backing up the Milk Stout that is on tap now), Fruit Gruit and a Judge only beer of the Flanders Red Kreik Blend. Both brewers are not going to be present at this years GABF though. Since whom ever scheduled this year event didn't consult me and put it on the same weekend as my wedding! So we are sending Anthony, who is one of our fabulous bar tenders and Ben from the management team. Have fun for us guys!

Cheers,
Tyler