Regular readers won't be surprised to hear this, seeing as we don't really do the traditional "standard range" thing, but I thought this week's brew was worthy of a bit of a plug seeing as it's not a pale & hoppy one for a change, plus a reminder what's going on with the rest of the brews we've completed recently.
This week we'll be brewing "Straight to the Light", a chocolate rye oatmeal stout, which will hopefully come out as lovely as it sounds right there! Specialist German chocolate rye malt and UK malted oats will be combined with East Anglian pale malt and some unusual Polish hops - Junga - to produce a stout with a difference, or at least not your usual boring "dry stout" with no hop character and a mere hint of roasted barley...
The following week will see the deployment of a brand new hop which comes highly recommended by random people on the internet, which is important as no-one I know has actually used it yet! Azzacca promises to be a big fruity beast and we're hoping for great things from it... hopefully it'll be as good as new Aussie behemoth Vic Secret which has lent it's catty, fruity and luscious character to "Mate Spawn and Die" which we casked up today; beers generally taste better after a few weeks in cask, but this one tasted amazing straight out of the conditioning tank today, albeit with a mouthful of hop bits to contend with!
Our collab with Cardiff's Crafty Devil brewery "Dance with the Devil" is on it's dry hops now and will be casked up next week alongside the final tanks of "Millennium bug" (lean fruitiness) and "Party Line" (zesty lime marmalade!) for your delectation....
Keep the faith, hop lovers...
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