Friday, December 12, 2008

Its xmas time again (and a new seasonal beer!)

Wow, apparently I've kept this blog up for more than three years now. Often times (like these last few months) its been very sparse in posts, but I think there is some good content over the years. In fact, I know there is some good content since I still get emails and comments from people for several of my posts over the years.

Anyway, I only have one bit of news I suppose. Last Friday I brewed the new seasonal beer at Alley Kat, which will be an English dark mild of about 3.5% abv. From the test batches, it should have lots of crystal & chocolate malt flavours with just enough hop bitterness to balance the sweetness. I love the mild style, and I think we should be drinking it more in North America. When I was in Scotland it was great to go to the pub and drink pints of real ale that was often below 4% abv. You could drink good tasting beer and not get trashed. Unless you drank a lot of it... but even then you were far less hungover in the morning.
In any case, I can't wait for the final product.

In other news... I've gone crazy buying safety equipment for my new car. I can't wait to get stuck in a remote wilderness location so I can use my fire-staring equipment and blankets. Or find a new car accident so I can use my first aid kit. Or pull up to someone on the side of the road who just happens to need a 1/16" nut driver... anyway, yeah I went a little crazy at Canadinan Tire. I love going there.

Cheers

6 comments:

Rob said...

Mild as a seasonal beer ay? Thats quite novel. By coincidence my seasonal Panda Clause by my very own Panda & Frog home brewery has came out alittle similar to Santa's Progress, one of the seasonals brewed at work.

Anonymous said...

Looking forward to trying a locallly brewed mild, I'm a big fan of the style.

Is it almost time for Olde Deut to be brewed again? I'm looking forward to the new batch of that one as well.

Phil C said...

It's 9am and I could do with some of that chocolate beer, having slept through the New Year

Jenn & Owen said...

After a tiny amount of research on Class E Liquor licences in Alberta, it turns out that the minimum production for a distillery is 72,000 cases (6500 HL, 2500 HL Absolute alcohol) a year. There is no provision for a microdistillery. What does this tell us? We need to annoy the government.

Jenn & Owen said...

Ah, yes, Xmas. A wonderful time of the year... Nearly upon is again.

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