It is exactly why we pilot brew, because sometimes the best laid plans do not always result in what you thought… and because experimentation is a lot of fun! We wrote a recipe for the first pilot brew for our Strong Belgian Golden that involved a number of ingredients and techniques we personally had little experience with. We were rewarded with a beer much different from beer we “brewed on paper”, but very inspiring to the end goal of the project. Being adventurous and rethinking what has been traditionally accepted about brewing is the reason craft brewers are always progressing while developing new beer styles, brewing techniques, and brewery equipment. Pilot brewing can produce unexpected and delicious results, even if it was not quite what we set out to do!
Posts Tagged ‘Pilot Beers’
A Glimpse into the Creation of a 2010 Single Serve Release with the OBC Brewers: The First Pilot Brew
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Tags: Belgian Pale Ale, De Oogst, Pilot Beers, Single Serve, Strong Belgian Golden
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A Glimpse into the Creation of a 2010 Single Serve release with the OBC Brewers.
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009The Single Serve 750ml Series has been fun for us brewers at OBC. Over the past year we have been able to design, develop and brew 5 entirely new beers for 2009. We have also been working on, or have already brewed, numerous beers for release in 2010. We are really excited about developing these new beers and we wanted to let you, the lover of hand-crafted beers, in on the process we go through in developing beers we are excited enough about to serve up to our friends. You can follow our brewers on this Blog as we work on creating and brewing a Strong Belgian Golden for release in a caged and corked 750ml bottle in 2010; from the very first email that started the project, through the various pilot batches, and concluding with the release party in our tasting room.
Tags: 750ml series, Pilot Beers, Single Serve, Strong Belgian Golden
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