Big things are brewing

It has been a while, eh? There are rumblings of big things afoot.......

The Trifecta Arriveth!

Three beers, one glorious day. March 24th, 2012: Baton Rouge.

Zapps Beer Festival may be your only chance to try these 3 specialty brews, unless you happen to be a judge at the Louisiana Homebrewers Competition on March 31st in Lafayette, in which case you will be seeing Pierre's Brew and Ostentatious Ale, you handsome, dashing, well dressed and highly intelligent person you. Did I mention Handsome?

 

Zapps Beer Fest 2012: "The Trifecta" cometh

This Saturday, we will be brewing the third and final beer for Zapps Beer Fest 2012, an English Pub Ale that is thus far known as "Ostentatious Ale." We are currently finishing the fermentation for "Pierre's Brew", a Belgian Witbier, and the aptly named "Blueberry ESB".

We hope to see everyone out in Baton Rouge on March 24 for the beer fest. You can find Talisheek under the MKOB banner.

http://www.zappsbeerfest.com/


P.S. The new website for The Mystic Krewe of Brew is coming along and should be operational soon. The Pub Crawl along the St.Tammany Trace will be this Saturday, starting at Heiner Brau brewery at the Covington trail-head, moving to the Abita Brewery, and ending at Main Grain in Abita Springs. I wish I could make it, but Ostentatious Ale awaits.

UPDATE!!!

My apologies good people of the beer world, for neglecting my duties in disseminating didactic doctrines in  unaccountably random ways. I have been hard at work constructing the new website for the Mystic Krewe of Brew. The Northshore's first and only home brew club and probably the most happening group of fellas you'd ever want to hang with on February 15, in Slidell at  Bistro De Lareine, http://www.bistrodelareine.com/.

Pugilists IPA is quite a smack in the jaw, at 7% abv. Having fermented for a month, the abv should have been around 8.5%, we think temperature control may have played a part. But the malty flavors are very pronounced, it is a strong Imperial IPA, but well balanced with great caramel flavor.

Tomorrow, we are revisiting an old friend, "Bayou Moon",  a Belgian Whit Bier, in a slightly different fashion. Instead of orange peel as the finish, we will be adding 3oz of fresh kumquat peel, grown right at White Oaks Manor.  We shall give it the moniker "Pierre's Brew", after the Patriarch of these misty grounds, Norris Pierre, who's vision of this place has made a small patch of woodland in sleepy Talisheek, LA, into the birthplace of a brewing revolution.