Our Birthday beer Decade 4% went into Firkins and Pins today, the test sample has been posted away to check its Gluten Free status and we’ll have it on the brewery bar Saturday 30th August for our 10th Anniversary, 10 years of making lovely beer.
We will have 8x Kegged beers and 6x Cask beers on the bar 12 til 8pm, and food is Caribbean from Jimmy @ Fries the limit, we do like his epic Goat Curry.
Hope to see you all here to help us celebrate 10 whole years!
Through winter when there aren’t as many flies, wasps, slugs and snails about it isn’t so bad. Casks that are sealed up after being used are great. Though the ones that aren’t sealed will fester away with all the bugs and microbes in the air to create some truly horrible dregs.
The photo above is a tiny fraction of the disgusting slop that empties out of unsealed casks, it makes a sort of putrid bio-slime which we used to refer to as ‘Afterbirth’ not the nicest use of the word admittedly. This weeks dirty cask washing hasn’t been bad but last weeks were the exact opposite and I doubt Writer Howard Overman or Ryan Reynolds could come up with a better description than ‘it’s like slimer from Ghostbusters was eating turds while simultaneously jazzing into his own turd vomit’!
The worst casks we’ve ever had back I could only describe their ‘aroma’ as Old Arse Turnip – Grim! They literally took weeks of washing and soaking to bring back to clean beer standards.
Get the picture?!
Things to seal casks up with:
All brewers thank you for sealing up their casks after use. It stops flies breeding and doesn’t stink.
We try really hard to ensure our casks are thoroughly clean and smell good, with a visual check along with a sniff test, before fresh beer is put back in them. Dirty casks are all cleaned at the end of a week, jet washed externally, rinsed and caustic washed. This helps us limit the amount of beer flies that enter the brewery and we wouldn’t want our neighbours to complain of flies etc. Then on cask filling day the casks are washed again in hot Caustic and thoroughly rinsed and checked before filling.
We wrote about this before here.
You lot seriously love your Dark beers, it’s not always easy to keep things in stock in the right formats, Firkins, Pins, Kegs…. Sometimes it only takes a couple of customers to put in some mega Pin orders and the stock goes!
A simple start of boil addition of Admiral hops is all Abyss Stout needs to give balance, the blend of Extra Pale, Naked Oat malt, crystal malt, roast barley, chocolate malt and a hint of Amber malt go into making it. Plus a Chloride heavy liquor treatment for a good mouth feel.
This will be going into Firkins and Pins next week. You can order in all the usual ways. Or if you fancy Bag in box please shout now so it can be filled from tank to order.
Tiller Pin was brewed yesterday to keep stocks up.
Cheers
Blonde 3.6% and Social Banter 3.8% have been casked and Social Banter Kegged today. There are pins available of both beers along with the usual Firkins.
We’ve done some subtle tweaks to Social Banter and it’s tasting great.
Order in all the usual ways, cheers
Wrecking Ball Lager 4.8% was out in 30 Litre Keykegs, tasting absolutely great incase you needed to know.
We also re-stocked Tiller Pin 4.2% in Firkins and Pins
Order in the usual ways, Cheers
We will be filling our wooden firkins over the next 2-3 weeks, if you fancy a small ‘Beer from the Wood’ TTO feel free to get in touch and we’ll plan something in with you. Email info@wishbonebrewery.co.uk
Here is our Wooden Cask Care Sheet you are agreeing to keep them safe and look after them.
We would fill the woods from brews coming up to give the best range we can in a sensible timeframe.
Cheers
Paul, Sales & Deliveries, is off on his holidays this week so myself and Rob are covering.
Brewing this week we have a top of our Blonde 3.6% cask stocks and our 10th Birthday beer ‘Decade’ which will be a Gluten Free pale 4%.
Giz a shout now if you fancy either of these beers in 10 or 20 Litre Bag in box and we’ll get those orders on now and fill them next week.
Cheers
This week sees us topping up stocks of Tiller Pin and brewing Social Banter 3.8% Session IPA.
We are making a few subtle tweaks to Social Banter for this brew, if you like it let us know, and if you don’t like it also let us know and we’ll swap right back for the next time.
Tiller is in stock right now in Firkins, we’ll be filling Pins later next week.
Social Banter will be going into Firkins, Pins & Keykegs at the end of next week, kegs will be available a week later once they have naturally carbonated.
Order in your preferred way, let us know if you’d like your usual wholesaler to sell our beers and we’ll shoot them a stock list.
Cheers
Missed my blog post last week, we casked Tiller Pin 4.2% on Friday and this Monday we put Everyday Carry 3.9% into Cask.
You know plenty about Tiller Pin so I won’t bore you with that, Everyday Carry 3.9% has Mosaic, Cascade and Blanc hops on it and tastes blummin’ lovely.
If you fancy one or both of these on your bar please do give us a shout in the usual ways. Both beers serve clear.
Cheers
When we first got to use Crisp Malt’s Hànà malt we named the beer after the malt, so Hana when from Hannah Montana to Miley Cyrus to Wrecking Ball! It’s hopped with Herman Hallertau Blanc and fermented with a Kolsch style yeast.
This is a Keykeg only beer and will be packaged into 30 Litre Keykegs.
Our lagers go down really well at the Fox & Goose in Hebden bridge. So if you want somewhere to have a try give them a go or hit us up on one of our brewery bar days.
Order in all the usual ways once it’s ready, cheers
