This ale was brewed on Feb.2, the only warm-ish day we've had since last November, and we haven't seen another one since. Since I "boil the wort" that initiates a batch of ale outdoors, I require a day when the front porch reaches + 60°F. Last winter, we had one such day per month, and scarcely enough snow to support three weeks of nordic skiing on the local rails-to-trails track. This winter, it's all cold and snow, and so far little brewing, but seven weeks and counting, of groomed skate-ski nirvana. I can't complain.
This Ale is brewed with 24# of 2-row base malt, 4# of Caravienne malt, 3.3# of Goldpils Vienna LME, 12 gallons of Basalt tap water, 2.oz of Sterling hops, 2.oz of Northern Brewer hops, and Mangrove Jack's Belgian Abbey yeast, for a net ABV of 7.5%.
I'm setting aside 24 bottles of this batch for a "Local Currency Game", to be played over three sessions of a "community conversation" about local economies, starting on Tuesday, March 12, from 5:00 - 7:00 pm, mountain standard time, and live streamed here (also available for later viewing). I hope to be very pleased with the results of this conversation, and with new "gift economy", "sharing economy" and local economy activists, with whom we find connection. I'll come back to report on the gifts I received for those I gave.
Cheers to Twenty Years!
MT
