Posts Tagged ‘Mountain Standard Reserve’

A Note on Bottle Conditioning

Monday, November 16th, 2009

All of our 750 ml corked and caged bottle beers are 100% bottle conditioned. This means we add fresh, active yeast to the bottles along with some unfermented sugars to allow the beers to go through a secondary fermentation within the bottle. The beer is flat when bottled and over a period of several weeks the yeast ferments the sugars producing carbon dioxide within the bottle, giving the finished beer it

An ‘At Home Beer Dinner’ with Mountain Standard Reserve ‘09

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

We here at Odell Brewing Co. love sharing our special creations with our friends and for the inaugural release of Mountain Standard Reserve ‘09 I wanted to share this beer in “Mountain Standard style.” The idea for this style came about while spending a weekend during the ‘09 hop harvest camping with fellow Brewers in a hop field along the western slope of Colorado.

To Celebrate this release I wanted to do something new and unique to help share our passion with all of you. I have decided to create and host an “at home beer dinner” and provide all of you with the “how to” so you can do the same. This dinner is a different way to enjoy our newest release, spend some time with friends and learn a little bit about pairing beer with food, all the while saving a bit of money over going out to eat.
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