Oktoberfest Batches 2 and 3
Today and tommorrow we making the second and third batches of Oktoberfest. That will be it for that brew this year. The first batch is lager in the cellar, and is tasting mighty fine.
Today we sampled the two Annivesary Ale test batches. They were both very smooth. The dobblebock displayed a little bit of diacteyl, which will probably fade. It is still very young, but I really enjoyed its juicy malt character. Chris’s brew is a dark ale, thin in body, but with a intense earthy hop flavor. I’m not sure what type of beer it is, but its good! I’m going to bring a bottle of each to the next THIRSTY meeting and see what the homebrewers there like the most. I suppose its possible that we could do both in a twin pack? P.S the next THIRSTY meeting is this Tuesday.
Ed Evans (our Iowa City distributor) told me today that I was crazy for not making the Warsh Pail Ale year round. He says it is flying off the shelves. *shrug* I’m not sure what we can do at this point. Once the Oktoberfest comes out, the six pack carriers would be confusing (since they are the same six pack carrier). So we need to get it its own carrier, and that will take sometime to do.
But we really don’t have the tank space to add ANOTHER brand of beer year round. Something has to give. What beer should we dump? Right now, the Wheat, Schild Brau, and John’s White Ale are only year round beers. Maybe we could make the Wheat a summer seasonal and make Pail year round? Sounds good to me, but i’m not sure the tourists in Amana would agree, since they are always asking for our LIGHTEST beer, which would be the wheat. Even the Pilsner is too much for many of them!