Its come to my attention that I haven’t written anything on the Brewers Blog in some time (two years?). I’ve been getting threats that somebody is going to ghost write the blog, using erroneous information, facts, and rumors if I don’t get to work on it. Well here’s the latest skinny in no particular order.
Do you remember that test batch of Belgian style Grendel months ago? And just recently reformulated to a 5.5% from 7% experimental batch at your request? Not to mention we changed its name to Gone Monk. It was a hit and we will be brewing 10 barrel batches by May 1. Also, between you, me and the gate post, we are experimenting with a 10% +/- Belgian Trippel.
That’s enough for Belgium, lets pick on the Brits. We’ve altered Jackass IPA- but still intact- with new hops and generous dry hopping. Ready shortly. Mammoth Jack IPA is in the works with a 10 gallon batch, but, still waiting for final gravity to calculate alcohol content. Should be 8.2 to 8.6% abv with way too much hops.
As many of the people who come to our tasting room know, we’re becoming a bit popular. We’re combating this popularity by looking for a new facility that might be even harder to find then this one. Trying to find a place with similar surroundings, atmosphere, better zoning, will be difficult. The brewery has been invited into the old Country Charm barn in Arlington, but development has been slowed for obvious reasons and looks like that could be years. We have been talking to people in the planning dept. for the city of Arlington who seem happy to help us find a spot. There are other locations in Arlington that are promising but require a lot of development and more research. If you know of a location in Arlington that has all the right attributes i.e. zoning, power, water, parking, etc. please email us.
Did you know that a homebrew club might be forming in the Arlington/Smokey Pt. area? Yeah, contact Brian at brian.vanornam@gmail.com.
I promise the next blog will not take 2 years.
Cheers
Ron