Thanks for celebrating with us!

As many of you know, this past weekend we had the pleasure of hosting our St. Veronus Celebration, which was our Belgian spin on the usual St. Patrick's Day festivities.  We had some fantastic treats and even better Belgian music (which came in quite the variety)!  Most importantly though, we had the opportunity to share a few new beers with you!  

It was a great time and we just want to say thanks!  If you were able to make it, we hope you had a good time and enjoyed our latest offerings in addition to our regular line up.  Here are a few pictures of the event.

We loaded up our new taps for the occasion!

Getting the place ready for the event.

Enjoying the festivities.  

And of course, the beer.  Here's a glass of White Zin, released this weekend.

Thanks again, and we'll see you soon!

Batch#50 Aging Away

We just put Batch#50 in its home for the next two to three years!

White Zin - The Beginning

Here is Jay and I blending the White Zin into our bright tank. This beer was born from a need to top off a partially filled barrel of our Zin-Beer and good timing. A batch of Lambic was conditioning in the fermenter at the time and the thought of the two being married together put a smile on our face. This is an amazing beer, one of my favorites!

Special Release Beers for our St. Veronus Celebration!

Our St. Veronus Celebration is almost here!  As promised we'll be releasing some new beers for the event, and oh man are they exciting!

First, Melange #3 is a complex blend of three unreleased bourbon barrel aged beers, including our Black Tuesday Imperial Stout, White Oak Wheat Wine, and Papier, our 1st Anniversary beer (an Old Ale).  Weighing in at 15% ABV, and layered with flavor, this is a special release you won't want to miss.  Some of you may have had the opportunity to sample this one at the Tasting Room, and now you can come and fully enjoy it.

Another beer we'll be premiering is our Cuvee Jeune.  This is a Young American Wild Ale fermented with traditional Lambic flora and then aged in Chardonnay barrels, finishing at approximately 6.5% ABV.

Last but not least, we'll be serving White Zin.  Nope, not the wine.  It's a beer for which we've blended that Cuvee Juene with our Zinbier, a Belgian blonde fermented with almost 1000 lbs of zinfandel grapes.  It's approximately 7.5% ABV and will be available for the first time this weekend.

Hopefully this news has you even more excited for this weekend's event, I know we sure are!  See you there!

Brewing Batch #50

Last week we were lucky enough to meet Al Buck and his wife Nina, winner of our Batch #50 competition. They flew in from New Jersey to help, err…make sure we didn’t screw up his recipe too badly when it came time to brew his Gueuze. We put him to work early Thursday morning mashing in the thickest mash we have ever done at the brewery. His recipe called for using a turbid mash which meant Al had a long day of mixing this insanely thick mixture of un-malted wheat and barley, which isn’t easy, believe me! Hopefully, we came close enough to his original recipe; I can only hope that our version turns out as good as his, which is amazing to say the least! After about a 12 hour brew day (that’s including clean-up) his beer was in the fermenter pitched with yeast and bacteria that he provided himself. He keeps all these cool yeasts and bacteria banked at his house! The next night I had the privilege to hang out with Al and Nina while drinking some of his amazing homebrew and talking yeast; he is a very knowledgeable guy and I love learning new things about brewing! It was a pleasure meeting both of them and I hope they can make it out next year (or sooner) to help us brew the second part of his recipe (it’s a blend of two and one year old lambic.)

 

Thanks Al and Nina, I had fun brewing and drinking some great beer with you over the past few days!

Here's Al mashing in his recipe on our brewhouse

The Bruery. Facebook. Discuss!

Now that our Facebook page is up and running and some of you have become fans, we can utilize the discussion boards as a forum to talk all things Bruery and beer.

We’ve taken the liberty of beginning a few threads, including a discussion about distribution and where Bruery beer is available to you. 

Also, for all you homebrewers and anyone who’s interested in learning a little more about the process of brewing, we’ve added an “Ask the Brewer” thread in which our very own brewers will be available to answer your questions.  So whether you’ve hit a snag with your own recipe or you just want to know how we brew your favorite Bruery beer, this is a good place to visit. 

You can also start your own threads on anything you may be interested in, so look us up on Facebook and let us know what kinds of beer related topics you’d like to talk about!

A New Twist on St. Patrick's.

It's late February, and you know what that means - St. Patrick’s Day is rapidly approaching!  For the holiday that honors the Emerald Isle, Irish food, Irish music, and of course, Irish beer are typically the tradition.  This year though, The Bruery is inviting you to enjoy our own twist on this historically Irish holiday.

 In the spirit of our Belgian-Style brewery, we will be holding a Belgian saint’s day.  We’ll be honoring the patron saint of Belgian brewers, St. Veronus, with a lively event featuring some Belgian snacks and cheeses, and of course, our Belgian-Style brews!  We’ll even be breaking out a very special new beer for the celebration that will surely add a little extra excitement.  More details on that to come. 

 The event will take place on Saturday, March 14^th from 2 – 6 pm, so you’ll have plenty of time to celebrate St. Pat’s the Irish way afterwards or on St. Patrick’s Day itself.  So before you go out for corned beef and Irish dancing, be sure to stop by the The Bruery and enjoy some Belgian traditions too!

Tasting Room, February 20 & 21

We've just installed our new cold room and as a result have had to change around our tasting room layout.  In the near future we will be installing a swank new bar setup into the cold room, but for this week we've done our best to meld the new and the old.  Here's the menu for this weekend:

Hope to see you here!

The Bruery on Facebook

The Bruery is entering the information age, slowly but surely.  Our latest venture to keep you all informed is a page on Facebook!  We'll continue to use the blog to communicate events and new experiments in all things beery, but plan on using Facebook for some of its more interactive features such as Discussion Boards.  Become a Fan today to show your support for The Bruery and ensure you'll always be in the loop!

Valentine's Day at The Bruery

Not sure where to take your valentine before that nice dinner?  Come by The Bruery from 2-6pm on Saturday and enjoy some complimentary (and complementary) cheese and chocolate fondue with our fantastic beers!  Cheese...chocolate...beer...what more can you want?!?

Well, how about a NEW beer?  We'll also be doing a special pre-release of our spring seasonal, Saison De Lente.  Light blonde in color with a fresh hoppiness and a wild and rustic Brettanomyces character, this beer is ideal for spring.  It's lighter in color and alcohol than our Saison Rue, yet equally complex in its own way and perfect for warmer weather (ABV: 6.5%, IBU: 35, SRM: 4).