The Friday Question
There was a good spread of answers for last weeks question and it was a close thing but CDoubleIPA came closest with his guess of 16, congratulations. The actual number of different seasonal / one-off brews that we put through was 15. This is maybe a little on the low side because of the refurbishments at the Ale House. I didn’t brew our first (in this case Strongman Pale Ale) until the last week of February. I’m pretty confident that we’ll brew a few more this year. The Hot Monkey Love is already in process and the Strongman Pale Ale is on the schedule next week. After that I’ll be brewing the Biere de Garde which I’m particularly excited about as I’ll be using a different strain of yeast for that one, which will be the first time for 10 years that I haven’t brewed with Ringwood yeast! I’ll probably be tweaking the recipe a little as well. I’m also still hoping to squeeze the Darkness (dark wheat beer) into the schedule if tap space allows.
Well on to this weeks question. Firstly the prize. Now, despite what’s been going on in City Hall recently I personally frown upon the illegal appropriation of gift cards so, dear readers, we here at Oliver Breweries offer you the chance to win a gift card ($25 value) for use at The Pratt Street Ale House legitimately. All you have to do is answer the following simple question and it could be yours. As I mentioned earlier, the next seasonal ale I will brew is the Strongman Pale Ale. Now, by my standards, this is quite a hopped-up beer although the brewers at BrewDog or Stone would probably regard it as a mild ale in comparison to some of their “off the chart i.b.u.” offerings. So what I want from you is a guess as to the total weight of hops that will go into this 7 barrel brew? As usual, please enter via the comment section below, judges decision is final etc. If anybody is interested, I will be avoiding Cascade like the plague, and instead will be using my old friends First Gold, Kent Goldings and Bramling Cross. You never know, maybe I’ll get the i.b.u. measured for this one, there’s a first time for everything after all!
The Scottish Ale
The Scottish Ale (the cask version pictured above in an original Oliver Scottish Ale thistle glass courtesy of Sandy Mitchell) will be on tap later today . I will post an update as soon as it goes on!
Cheers
Steve
Tags: scottish ale, the friday question
I’m guessing 1.5 lbs of hops per barrel x 7 barrels = 10.5 total lbs. of hops in your 7 barrel batch
My god, the damn blog SINGS to us now!!!!!!
Nothing to do with me …. do what I did and mute it! Where’s your guess for the Friday Question then?
Oh, I’m playing the Price is Right strategy here, mate–I have until next Thursday, don’t I? <:-)
I’m going to chime in at 11.8 pounds. Unless you dry hop, but that’s probably by the hand full and then that would be a really good pint.
Argh I just left and the Scottish Ale wasn’t on yet.
I know how you love to make hop-bombs so I will go with 9.5 lbs.
I will say 13.
12lbs.
13.1 just to cover anything above 13, even though I don’t really think there’s that many hops, just going for what gives me the most latitude….
That hurts!
Well, my other guess would have been 13.5 pounds, so either way I would have won for the same reason….. don’t take it so personally, chum. Catch up with me, and I’ll buy you a pint for being #2!