The Beer Thread • Page 196

The Veil puts theirs in a slushee machine sometimes to make it even more like a smoothie.

 

I don't know if Bruery's process is the same, but The Answer basically sets a keg up as a huge Dogfish Head Randall. Hence the "Andall" name. They put all the fruit and or juice into a mesh bag inside a keg and push the beer into that first before going to the tap. Answer is using other people's beer when they do the Andall as well. Anderson Valley is what I've always heard.

 

I have no idea how The Bruery makes them, but I would venture to say it's not like the above... but what do I know

 

Most of the places sell them out of the brewery so there is some control over the product. Our flagship beer at work is a cherry vanilla amber and we add our cherry syrup in the brite to taste. Now that we’re looking to can we are doing some R&D about packaging. We’ll likely have to switch up how we add our fruit in our beers.

 

Can you just kill the yeast before adding the fruit?

 

Our concern is how the cans will be stored with the distributor, but more importantly with how they’ll be stored in retail. We can, but there’s still trace amount of yeast in it, and depending on temp we think that it’d still be a bomb concern.

Edit: that said the amount of fruit we add is no where near the amount the fruited Goses/berliners from places like the veil and whatnot are making. We’re typically around 20-25 LBS per 7 bbl batch.

 

So is it impossble to get any Maibocks ? I know it's a Spring beer but still ha. Would anybody be able to hook me up ?

 

Only Maibock I can think of is from one of the worst Michigan breweries. It’s a style that just isn’t around here much.

 

Lame. I got a case from Abita a month ago but that was the last of it. It was damn tasty.

 

Monk's in Philly has announced both an event with Maine Beer Company and The Alchemist for Philly Beer Week. the MBC event will have Dinner on tap and the Alchemist event will have Heady Topper, Focal Banger, Crusher, Skadoosh, and Luscious on tap. MBC and the Alchemist don't have the same hype attached to them as they once did, but this is still super cool. of course I'll have to miss both. one day I'll get my hands on Dinner.

they also said that they have two more events "up their sleeve," it would be crazy if they got Hill Farmstead or some other big non-Philly brewery.

 

Fuck Philly for getting so much good beer.

 

Hill Farmstead can already be found in Philly on rare occasions.

 

Did see a 3 Fonteinen beer on tap here the other day, just waiting for the geuze to show up any day now.

 

Rude

 

Had Uplands Iridescent the other night and damn

 

Hey @bigmike have you taken the Certified Beer Server exam, and if so was it fairly easy? I just took the sample 10-question one on their website and got 100% so wondering if it's as easy as that.

 

I have not. It's 75 questions (I think) and you get 2 cracks at it for the cost. There's a decent amount of draft line set up stuff on it, but I'm certain I could pass it this afternoon if I wanted to. I will take it at some point. I want to start focusing and studying to do certified cicerone and i need to just knock beer server out of the way.

 

Here's their syllabus for the certified beer server. Don't know if you saw it on their website. If I recall correctly, they don't really put them out there front and center.

 

Thanks. I don't know draft line stuff too well so I may not do so great on the test haha. I've thought about studying to do the certified cicerone test but I'm not sure I want to put in the effort for it

 

Draft system stuff is very easy. Like, very easy. I think, with what I know of your knowledge, you would likely pass beer server. I mean, you get two tries at it for one price.

 

any idea where? I've never seen it and would love to know where to look.

 

They had Mary on tap at Monks and Whole Foods one time I was up there in October. I'm sure other places just get random drops of stuff.

 

Have yet to try a hill farmstead beer but sante adairius has had them as a guest tap quite frequently recently, just need to make the journey down there.

 

SARA beers are so good, just had a bottle of Lady in Grey the other day. Fantastic. Pretty sure all my SARA bottles are gone as of now which is a bummer.

 

dang, never saw those. I've only seen it available up in VT and New York.