Pale Ale delayed
Well everything did not work as planned on tuesday. When we tried to bottle the Warsh Pale, the small bits of hops in the beer clogged up the filler. I guess I had forgotten that each valve on the filler has a small screen! So Chris had to spend most of the day tearing it down to clear the screens out.. We only were able to bottle a few cases.
I guess we have bottled unfiltered beers before, and dry hopped filtered beers, but we have never tried to bottle a dry hopped unfiltered beer. I think next time I will dry hop in BAGS so that this is a non-issue.
I really do not want to filter this beer. So we are letting it sit until next week and see if it settles out. Also Chris is installing a small screen before the filter, so hopefully that will clog first and he won’t need to tear down the whole machine.
We are not too concerned about the delay. At this point, getting this beer into a 12 ounce bottle is sort becoming a comedy of errors!
Anyway, our whole focus at the brewery is now on the Great Taste of the Midwest in Madison this Saturday. I am packing up the van and heading up there with Dan tonight. I hope to see you there, it is an incredibly fun beer festival! I just read on the flyer that if you have two ounce sample of each beer at the fest, that will be 25 quarts of beer for you drink!