Hannah & Jasmine
First heads up: Matt brought up the face that naming our wheat beer "Brewfus" didn't follow the name-the-beers-after-females idea, so we've decided to change her name to "Hannah" and make a promise that we'll never stray from that pattern again.
Second heads up: WMU sent all it's upperclassman students a 100 dollar reimbursement check for some reason unbeknownst to me, so it follows that I've made another brewing investment with it. Today we stopped by the Bell's store and bought another 5 gallon glass carboy and other things. The idea is that we up our current production level to 3 batches at a time rather than 2. Two carboys will be dedicated to brewing these typical one-month batches that don't particularly require long fermentations or mellowing/aging periods. This third carboy, though, will be used for bigger beers with higher alcohol contents and more complex flavors. These "bigger" beers take longer to ferment and mellow to turn out truly tasty, but all sources say they're worth the wait.
This is where Jasmine comes in. Jasmine's style distinction is somewhat between an India Pale Ale and a heavy Red Ale...basically an IPA that's slightly darker than the style allows and very heavily hopped. Now granted, Rachel and Hannah are very non-offending beers, and they are somewhat aimed at pleasing the larger bunch of people. IPAs are more of an acquired taste, given that they're so bitter and very 'beery' in that respect, as well as rather high in alcohol (about twice that of Rachel at 8% abv). But that's the philosophy around craft brewing. I'm not here to please the masses.
Jasmine won't be ready for around 3 months, but you'll hear about her then. She goes into the kettle this Sunday. We'll throw some pictures up if we're not to hung over after Benny's birthday slam this Saturday.
Cheers!
Sam
Second heads up: WMU sent all it's upperclassman students a 100 dollar reimbursement check for some reason unbeknownst to me, so it follows that I've made another brewing investment with it. Today we stopped by the Bell's store and bought another 5 gallon glass carboy and other things. The idea is that we up our current production level to 3 batches at a time rather than 2. Two carboys will be dedicated to brewing these typical one-month batches that don't particularly require long fermentations or mellowing/aging periods. This third carboy, though, will be used for bigger beers with higher alcohol contents and more complex flavors. These "bigger" beers take longer to ferment and mellow to turn out truly tasty, but all sources say they're worth the wait.
This is where Jasmine comes in. Jasmine's style distinction is somewhat between an India Pale Ale and a heavy Red Ale...basically an IPA that's slightly darker than the style allows and very heavily hopped. Now granted, Rachel and Hannah are very non-offending beers, and they are somewhat aimed at pleasing the larger bunch of people. IPAs are more of an acquired taste, given that they're so bitter and very 'beery' in that respect, as well as rather high in alcohol (about twice that of Rachel at 8% abv). But that's the philosophy around craft brewing. I'm not here to please the masses.
Jasmine won't be ready for around 3 months, but you'll hear about her then. She goes into the kettle this Sunday. We'll throw some pictures up if we're not to hung over after Benny's birthday slam this Saturday.
Cheers!
Sam
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