Monday, February 25, 2008

The Freak Brothers have a new toy...

Hey everyone, just a quick update on what has been going on lately with the beer and the brewing. Brewing has been at a standstill for the last 2 to 3 weeks mainly because we were trying to get an actual commercial brewery going, which for now has been moved to the back burner due to licensing restrictions with our business partner. It looks like this week will be the start of a new brewing cycle probably starting with an American Wheat Beer and continuing until every fermenter is full. It also looks like the hop market shortages are starting to take hold, I've been trying to price ingredients and have seen hops going for $5.00+ an oz, I think that because of that we are probably not going to be making any more IPAs for a while and probably start working on brewing some Belgian beers or Wheats. The final bit of information to share is the one that we are the most excited about, we now have a Blichman beer gun. I have to say that this thing is freakin' cool, we just got it the other day and haven't had a chance to use it yet but it looks like the perfect way for us to bottle beer. We'll have more on the beer gun later, I'm sure with videos and pictures to follow. Until then Keep on brewing and keep on trying something new.

Cheers, "E"

2 comments:

Adam said...

I've used one. It works pretty well.

If you are bottling precarbonated beer...

Keep everything cold. Cold bottles. Cold beer. I also found that you need more volumes of C02 than you would for serving the same beer.

Freak said...

I can't wait to use it E!