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464 weeks drinking beer surely must make us all official Beerologists! Whether you are a seasoned aficionado or the designated driver, you are always welcome to pull up a pint and join @detlev and the gang with your post about beer at https://hive.blog/hive-187719/@detlev/beersaturday-464 | https://www.peakd.com/hive-187719/@detlev/beersaturday-464
In this 463th edition, I am sharing new beers, new styles, new breweries and new grains in our brewery!
This Pint of the Week is actually also a shorty of the week as sometimes I find a unique craft beer in the much rarer short/355ml cans! I have enjoyed Short Finger Brewing a few times but can't recall sharing it yet on #beersaturday. Year's Best Science Fiction is a barrel aged series of pale ales that have made it to this Volume 26. While I do love my hoppy IPAs, a pale ale with less hops but equal the flavour is a welcome change. This hazy treat is crisp and smooth and flavourful enough not to have me miss the lack of the India in the style.
Gotta award my coveted seal of approval for Short Finger's debut appearance on BeerSaturday Brews!
Ketch / All My Friends!
Another debut on BeerSaturday Brews is this brew from All My Friends Brewing which is only an hour from my hometown but 4 away from where I am now. Besides discovering a new brewery and beer, I also love a collaboration which this one is with Ketch Brewing from San Diego! With a design like that, it leaps off the shelf even to people who are not obsessed with the next IPA like I am.
This beer is so exclusive and limited that you can't even find it in their Beer Shop It is also one of the latest trends with both New Zealand hops AND cannabis terpenes! There are quite a few of these popping onto the market as the next evolution of funky IPAs with the added taste of cannabis without any of the THC or intoxicants. When you crack this one, it smells almost like I am opening the weed box and there is a solid marijuana taste to mix with the hops and haze. If you haven't tried a terps beer yet, and are a pot head or just obsessed with cutting edge beer styles, I would grab one off the shelf if you see one. Definitely not interested in more than one of these in a row but definitely interesting!
Back the the Brewery
After a couple weeks break from brewing, we were back at it this weekend. Still a couple kegs lined up in the fridges but it was time to brew again as we will be low in the couple weeks it takes to brew and ferment the next batch for drinking.
I do enjoy the fact that we brew right from grains. Also special this time is we have a fresh shipment of malts which tends to taste that much better and have more sugars so the IPA has that 6.3% abv punch to balance out the massive hops we add.
The metal spoon wasn't cutting it when trying to stir the grains in the big brewer so we busted out the new mash paddle to do the heavy work.
By the end of the session, we have a batch of Cream Ale, and this NEIPA in the fermenter along with a mash we are going to distill into whisky. This IPA has a BIG initial gravity which means enough sugar for the yeast to consume and possibly a 7 or 8% ABV beer by the time it is done fermenting. We will know in a week and I might just share that on a future #beersaturday post.
#BEERSaturday!
I gotta agree with Anthony and think he might be a good fit for #Hive and #beersaturday.
Now it is time for you to join me, @detlev , and these other beerologists because there is always room for more beer bloggers at the Beer Saturday gathering. Whether you perfer the Hive Blog front end or using @peakd, your links are https://hive.blog/hive-187719/@detlev/beersaturday-464 | https://www.peakd.com/hive-187719/@detlev/beersaturday-464 to @detlev's post this week and I would encourage you to create a beer post of your own to join the fun. Cheers to all them collab beers.
