white beer update
The first batch of Johns Grocery White Ale is on tap. I compared it to a bottle of Stone City brewed beer, and was pleasantly surprised to find that they tasted nearly identical. But that is not what I was aiming for, I would like a beer a little closer to Hoegarten/Celis. So we are fermenting a second batch down stairs right now. I am fermenting it warmer, with a stronger culture of yeast. Also, I nearly doubled the orange peel/coriander. We’ll know in two weeks…
In the meantime we are still waiting on label approval. The ATF decided that White ale is wierd and demanded we submit a process approval form. I guess they want to know if we are adding orange flavored liqour to the beer like Smirnoff!! Well I wrote up the recipe, noting all the addition times of orange peel. We will see, I didn’t explain mashing or lautering… I sure hope someone at the ATF understands what those words mean!!
They are promising a speedy approval.. Hopefully we will have this beer in bottles by February.
Thurday and Friday Chris and I are taking a trip to visit some brewer friends in Wisconsin. I’ll be sure to give you a nice update of what we see up there.
Aaron
January 22nd, 2004 at 8:08 am
If you visit John’s Grocery website you will find the link to Millstream is an old link and they still say their white Ale is brewed by Stone City. You might consider having them update the info. Good luck with the beer.
January 24th, 2004 at 1:51 am
Thanks for the heads up jeff. I don’t see the bad link on john’s website. The main link to our brewery, under ‘links’, comes up fine. If you could email the page with the bad link to me, I will see that it gets corrected.
We are not actually making the white ale for john’s just yet. The stuff he is selling is still from Stone City. We are patiently waiting for ATF label approval….
Cheers
Aaron