May Brewing Notes
Just wanted to send out a quick update on a few things down in the brewery.
Hops: 5/12/09
As you can see, the hops are really taking off. Probably up to about twelve feet now and growing about 4-6 inches a day.
I just released this years batch of Heathen, and a couple of days ago, I released Sass-Mouth, a Saison-inspired hoppy treat.
The primary reason I put out this new blog is to inform all of my red drinkers that we will be temporarily out of Donovan’s Red. Gasp!!! “What will I drink?” you might ask? Something else, that’s what you’ll drink. The process of brewing has an uncanny way of throwing you curve balls, and this is a new one. Two nights ago I was carbonating the latest batch of Red before I left for the evening, and when I came in yesterday morning, I was STILL carbonating the batch of Red….. SHIT!
The long and short is that I now have to brew a new batch to cut with the horrendously over-carbonated batch in order to come out with two batches of tasty, delicious Donovan’s Red. So you’ll have your red back in about two weeks.
Other than that, The Crusher is just about done with fermentation and should blow your hoppy socks off. Stay tuned …..
