the sunday question !?
O.K., as you may have noticed, Friday came and went without the Friday question. Sorry about that but we were buried in the brewery and I couldn’t find time to log on! On a positive note though, our new kilderkins arrived (just in the nick of time) so I spent the morning cleaning casks and filling them with E.S.B.
Saturday too came and went in a blur … this time courtesy of the DuClaw Real Ale Festival. All of the usual suspects were there with a couple of notable additions in Troegs with their Nugget Nectar and Javahead Stout and Stone with their Oaked Arrogant Bastard and Cali-Belgique. It was a very well run event as you’d expect from DuClaw and a good time was had by all. A special thanks go out to Brandon for helping serve our beer and of course to all those thirsty real ale fans for all the great feedback about our beers. My only criticism would be that maybe people should have been offered the chance to fill growlers at the 4pm cut-off … it was heartbreaking pouring away those last couple of gallons of Oak 3 Lions and dry hop Ironman Pale Ale!!!
Anyway, on to business …. There was only one correct entry to the last Friday question so instead of it being a 2 part question as I had originally intended, I will give a pair of Oktoberfest Tickets to last weeks winning entry and another pair of tickets to this weeks winning entry (Achtung! Our generosity knows no bounds!) As per usual, the first correct entry received via the “comments” link below wins, judges decision is final blah, blah, blah. The answer to last weeks question was …. drum roll … answer c) Ironman Pale Ale so congratulations go out to Mr. Scott Scharf, the winner of 2 tickets to Oktoberfest at The Timonium Fairgrounds on October 10th.
This weeks question …. as you may well know, the bitterness of a beer produced by hops is measured in terms of International Bitterness Units (IBUs). This seems to be of particular interest to some of my American colleagues who proudly proclaim their latest Double Imperial pale ale or whatever to contain 140 IBUs as if some sort of badge of honor! In context, an English Mild ale will typically have around 20 IBUs.
So the question is this … What is the IBU value for the Ironman Pale Ale, is it …
a)30
b)35
c)45
d)70
e) How the Hell would I know, the brewer has never calculated an IBU value in his life!
Good luck.
Steve
Tags: 3 lions, Oak Aged, Real Ale Festival, the friday question
I’m going with “C”, but wouldn’t be surprised with “E”
Just to be contrarian, and making a WAG, I’ll go with “E”! <:-D
C’s taken, so I’ll go with “B”