Channel crossing Series Vol 1.
As you may already have read elsewhere (http://beerinbaltimore.com/?p=3262) today is a special day here at Oliver Breweries as we are brewing our first collaborative beer. Brian Stillwater (www.stillwaterales.com) is in the house and we’re brewing an Anglo-Belgian hybrid of sorts. 14 barrels of what we’d loosely term a Biere de Garde, brewed using a mixture of English Halcyon Pale Ale, crystal, chocolate and malted wheat, German melanoidin malt and Franco-Belges pilsen malt, hopped with Czech Saaz, English Bramling Cross, First Gold and Kent Goldings and fermented with Brian’s Saison yeast. Curious? So are we! Who knows how the saison yeast will behave in our open fermentation vessels! We’re excited about it. We’ve scheduled a release party at the Pratt Street Ale House on Thursday May 20th at which we’ll have multiple cask versions available (likely to include French oak and American oak versions and probably some with herbs/spices). We’ll release further details in the next week or so.
Steve – CSI brewing club is looking for 3oz of KGB for Big Brew at MD Homebrew this Sat. Can you spare any? I will be at the Orioles game tomorrow, if this is possible, please let me know. I plan to stop in for my fav – HML, anyway.
Steve – If I said KGB, I meant EKG. I am only the brewer’s wife and deck hand. Sorry.
Of course, leaf or pellet? By-the-way, I wish there was a hop called KGB, that would be awesome … let the cold hop war begin!