Vanilla Porter frrom Breckenridge for Sunday beer!!

Greetings Craft Beer Lovers!!,
 Well, it has been a great Craft Beer Week here at P-BREW. Lots of devoted craft beer fans here during the week. Hell, we even saw the Alstrom Bros. nursing a wicked hangover on Friday pounding some Gose!! All is good. Thanks for coming out and sharing some fun this past week. We have a teaser for Sundays beer. We 'll be pouring Breckenridge's Vanilla Porter for our 11th tap. Should be nice and easy on those who have had, perhaps, a wee-bit 'o too much fun Sat. PM like all you UNH grads??!! Congrats to all graduates who have matriculated this month and those heading up to the diploma domicile within the next few weeks. Cheers!Todm

Q & A with Annette, Dave and Tod tonight at 6PM

Greetings Craft Beer lovers,
 Tonight we have a round table discussion with Annette from Throwback Brewing, Dave from Smuttynose Brewing and my crew and myself from P-Brew to answer any questions you might have about anything related to brewing. So, all you home-brewers with technical questions and craft beer lovers with and questions you might have about beers and brewing come by and fire away!! We have a delicious line up today and perhaps the '09 Wheat Wine and '10 Barley Wine will last thru the day and still be available for tonight Q and A session. See you tonight? Cheers! Todm

Tap "Re-takeover" Tues

Greetings Craft Beer Lovers,
 Today is the one day, and probably not for very long, that we take over all 10 taps here at P-Brew. Come in and enjoy some aged Barley Wine, Imperial IPA and some aged Wheat Wine. Be on the look out for some type of Black Beer soon..... Cheers! Todm

American Craft Beer Week come to town on the 14th!

Greetings Craft Beer Lovers,
  We are glad to be hosting a few informal events at P-Brew during American Craft Beer week down in the Jimmy Lapanza Lounge: On Monday we have master chocolatier Ann Czaja, from Lindt Chocolate, doing a pairing of 4 Lindt chocolates with 4 of our beers.  Come to the brewery between 6PM and 7 PM and see how we pair beer and chocolate. On Tues. we will be pouring 10 Portsmouth brewery beers in a tap "re-takeover". Be on the lookout for some aged beers as well as our celebration to American Craft Beer week with the 2 indigenous beers styles to America; Cream Ale and California Common. We'll also be pouring our black IPA. Lot's of great beers to celebrate ACBW with. On Weds, again at 6PM 'til 7 PM we have our cheese monger friend Robert Aguilera here who will be pairing 4 cheeses with 4 of our beers. Just come on by and try 4 tasty beers with 4 tasty cheeses. On Thurs.  evening between 6PM and 7PM we'll have a informal Q & A with Throwback brewer Annette, Smuttynose brewer Dave and perhaps a few other Smuttynose brewers alongside me and my crew. All you homebrewers out there bring in your questions on style and anything you might have an interest in to see if one of the aforementioned brewers can help with your queries. On Friday we'll be pouring a pin for Firkin Friday. You never know what we have in the firkin 'til you try it.
 Lastly, we have a log of Smuttynose Gravitation to become the "11th tap" for the Sunday lineup. Well, that 's all for now. Hope to see you here over the American Craft Beer Week celebration. The reason we celebrate ACBW is because of all the craft beer lovers out there. So, here's to you all, you lager lovers and ale aficionados!! Cheers! Todm
PS I recently returned from San Diego after attending the Craft Brewers Conference and the World Beer Cup competition. Wow, there is a whole lotta hops goin' on out there. It seems like every brewery produces about 7 IPA's all with HUGE amounts of hops!! It's an epidemic!

There's is a Deviant in Lapanza today....

Greetings beer lovers,
 Well, not exactly an asocial type of deviant.... in fact we have a log of Deviant Dale's available for the 11th line. Deviant Dale's is an double IPA at 8% abv and around 85 IBU's. Here is what Ocsar Blues has to say about Deviant:"Deviant Dale’s IPA (8% ABV, 85 IBUs) was born at the crossroads, in a juke joint, as if Dale’s Pale Ale sold its soul to balance Deviant’s foreboding aromas of citrus, grapefruit rind and piney resins with a copper ball-of-fire color and inscrutable finish." That said, why not come in and enjoy a beer and some food this afternoon?
  On a unfortunate note the brewing community lost two souls this week. Please join me and raise a glass of fine, well crafted ale to Ben and Darryl. Be at peace. Cheers! Todm

Brett cast off the Bluebird for a Sunday venture...

Greetings beer lovers,
 So, Brett cast off the bow of the Bluebird and she cruised her way into the taps at P-Brew for this Sunday's 11th beer line up. Yep, we got another log of the Smuttynose short batch series "Brett and I", a Belgian style golden ale finished with Brettanomyces, a wild yeast strain, to create this unique beer. If you have not had a "Brett" then you are in for a taste treat influenced by the Belgian brewing traditions.
    On the other front here at P-Brew we had a change over in the line up when the Retro Pale ale moved on and was replaced by our spring Dunkelweizen. This interpretation of a dark(dunkel) wheat (weizen) is enhanced by the use of local maple syrup from Mclure's of Littleton, N.H. The resultant beer drinks with a crisp flavor derived by the German hefeweizen yeast strain, most notably the clove and banana aroma as well as the dark malts adding a complexity found in this style of ale. Don't look for sweetness from the maple syrup because the sugars in the syrup are highly fermentable and leave just a touch of sweetness at the very end of the flavor profile. This is a good beer to enjoy both on a warm sunny day or a miserable rainy Sunday. So, come on down and enjoy a Brett and I or a Dunkelweizen. Cheers! Todm  

Guess what's on tap for Sunday's 11th tap.......

Vunderbar Pils. Here is what peeps at Smuttynose are saying about this lager:

"Vunderbar Pils marks a departure from the last few short batches we have brewed. It's not high in alcohol. It doesn't use any kind of wild yeast, nor is it barrel-aged. It's a beer in the classic, if not archetypal, sense of the word. Best of all, it's blindingly delicious and drinkable. The low bitterness and moderate body make the beer conducive to some serious elbow bending." I hear that is is supposed to be kind of warm on Sunday so why not come down and try a little elbow bending on some Vunderbar? There have been some changes made on our tap lines. The Osiris went away with many great comments about this herbal beer, I am sure we'll be brewing this one again come the summer as it is a clean, crisp, and refreshing ale. As it turns out Osiris was replaced with an equally light and refreshing Hefeweizen which has the typical clove/banana phenolics derived from the German yeast. It is tasting quite nice and does not need the lemon garnish due to its tart wheat character. The other change which is sad to see is the Flanders Kriek blend go away. We'll make it again next year..... it gives you "sour" lovers something to look forward to!! However, replacing the Flanders is one of our big beers the Imperial IPA. It has been aging on dry hops (Chinook,Cascade and CTZ) for the past 3 weeks and has some big attitude. Big malt backbone and some multi-layered hops from bitterness to flavor to some sweet aromatics. It has all the presence an Imperial IPA should have as well as drinkability. Enjoy. Cheers! Todm

Smutty's Brett & I in for sunday!

Greetings beer lovers, We have replaced Star Island for Berkshire Brewing Company's Maibock a malt forward lager coming in at 6.5abv. and 20 Ibu. Brian and Matt tinkered with the Flanders Red and turned it into a FRIEK! Blending last years Flanders that had been inoculated with wild yeast along with some tart cherry juice! Very Very nice! To stay on a sour note, Smutty's Brett & I will be on for Sunday!! Pucker up we got the funk goin on up in here! Cheers! Todm