Love Potion NEVI IPA
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Gladstone Brewery, Courtenay, BC244 - 4th Street, Courtenay, BC V9N
Opposite the Courtenay Museum and the Sid Williams Theatre Sing to the yeast.Yeast are living creatures. Filling their ears with love songs can only help. Plus it's a bit of a hoot. Apologies to Ryan for setting up shop right in his path. I helped harvest the yeast today, which needs to warm up from its 0 degree chill to be used tomorrow. Since the yeast needed to be in the steel vessel at room temperature, why not sing to it? Here is the secret ingredient in the Royston IPA, love.
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Make the beer.Wednesday April 13 the RNB's first charitable gypsy contract beer was brewed. I didn't break the equipment, and I was careful not to turn the wrong valve and fill the fermentor with caustic cleaning solution.
Dry hop the beer.I was planning to dry hop the beer 0.5-1 degree plato above final gravity. That's beer brewer talk for just before the yeast finish fermenting all the sugars. Any oxygen introduced into the fermentor will be scrubbed up by the still active yeast. Oxidation at this point will give the beer a caramel aroma. We don't want caramel aroma. LOTS of hops were added at this point.
Deliver the beer.SUP board delivery from the Gladstone Brewery. The Royston Nano Brewery has committed itself to distributing all beer from each contracted brewery by non fossil fuel burning methods. Decreased carbon footprint yes, but more importantly engaging community, promoting exercise and an awareness of the benefits of a more bike, foot and paddle-friendly community. Beer is heavy. Smart people drink local beer. And yes I get the irony of the picture from the car window. Thanks to Courtenay City Councillor Dave Frisch for bicycle couriering 2 kegs the night before to ensure there were guaranteed cold and settled beers for the big release night.
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