Posts Tagged ‘Bishop’s Indulgence’
Mid week round-up
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Well here we are …. the last brew day of 2009! We’re ending with a Bishop’s Breakfast and, as it happens I’ll be filling some firkins and a kilderkin with the Bishop’s Indulgence and moving the rest to conditioning. I’ll be starting the next year with a bang by brewing the Hot Monkey Love … a statement of intent for the coming year! I’m awaiting delivery of 4 Woodford Reserve barrels (big shout out to Barrett @ The District Chophouse for supplying the info for making it possible) so we’ll be doing some interesting things with those. The first 3 seasonal brews for 2010 are in various stages of process. The Scottish Ale (7%abv) is in conditioning, The Peeping Tom Porter (4.4%abv) is fermenting and, as I’ve already mentioned, the Bishop’s Indulgence (8%abv) is moving to conditioning today. Firkins of the Scottish Ale will be going out to Max’s and ChurchKey next week so look out for them on tap in the near future. In the second week of January I’ll also be brewing the Strongman Pale Ale which will probably be around the 7.5% – 8% abv mark.
Casks of the Bishop's Indulgence
Four firkins of The Bishop’s Indulgence will be shipped to outside accounts. A kilderkin with American Oak is staying at The Pratt Street Ale House for release in early February.
Don’t forget to enter The Friday Question …. you’ve got until Friday a.m. when I’ll post the answer.
Cheers for now. Have a great New Year celebration.
Steve
The Friday Question
Friday, December 11th, 2009
Well it seems like last week’s question was a tricky one. I received only three answers, all different and none of which were the answer I was looking for although it was very interesting reading about these other breweries. The one that I was actually thinking of was the German Brewing Company in Cumberland, Maryland. The brewery began operations in 1901 but with the U.S. entering the First World War and increasing anti-German sentiment the directors thought it prudent to change the name to The Liberty Brewing Company. With the advent of Prohibition the name was changed to Queeno Co. until brewing operations resumed as The German Brewing Company in 1933. However the Second World War brought another change in name, this time to the Queen City Brewing Company which it retained until the brewery’s closure in the 1970s (although the Old German Beer brand was again used in the post war era). If you’re ever in Cumberland, check out the exhibit at The Allegany Museum, it’s interesting stuff.
On to this weeks question and back to the i-pod for one last time. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts the first thing I do when I get into the brewery in the morning is put the i-pod on shuffle and let it play until the end of the brewing day (about 9 hours later). As I write this “Magic” by Cud is playing … a 80’s Brit indie classic! What I want to know is how many songs on average will be played during the brewing day. Just so you know I will record how many play during next weeks brew days to work out the average. Please enter via the comment section below, one entry per person please. In case of a tie the winner will be selected at random from the tied entries. Up for grabs is a 3 Lions t-shirt and growler of 3 Lions Ale to help keep you warm on these cold Winter nights. Speaking of cold, it’s 46F down here so I’m practically sitting on the office heater as I write this in a vain attempt to stay “warm” (which is very much a relative term down here).
The week is rounding out with an Irish Red. We have a 3 Lions, Dark Horse and Pagan Porter in fermentation so expect to see these in cask in the coming weeks. We’ll be doing some of the Porter casks with vanilla, a favorite of mine and of course we’ll be aging some of the 3 Lions on Oak. Next week we’ll be brewing the Scottish Ale and The Bishop’s Indulgence (yes, you can pay to get to Heaven), our next 2 seasonal offerings as well as the Ironman Pale Ale and Amber Ale.
Have a great weekend.
Cheers
Steve