For those of you just getting into craft beer or maybe are 5th level grandmaster beer geek, here is a handy glassware guide. This is just a suggestion, obviously something like this will be heavily debated. But, it’s a good way to get you started. Realistically, you could drink your beer out of a trash can if you wanted to but we think these guidelines will serve you better. Besides, you may get some weird looks if you’re drinking lambic out of a trash can.
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Our Campaign
Yesterday we launched a sneak preview of our full-length video which will be launched along side our kickstarter campaign in the spring of 2013.
If you haven’t gotten a chance to see the video here it is in its entirety.
Hopefully you enjoyed the preview. There will be more to come in the upcoming months. So keep your eyes out for us!
What is kickstarter?
Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of ambitious, innovative, and imaginative projects that are brought to life through the direct support of others.
How does kickstarter work?
Thousands of creative projects are funding on Kickstarter at any given moment. Each project is independently created and crafted by the person behind it. The filmmakers, musicians, artists, and designers you see on Kickstarter have complete control and responsibility over their projects. They spend weeks building their project pages, shooting their videos, and brainstorming what rewards to offer backers. When they’re ready, creators launch their project and share it with their community.
How can you help?
The best way is to sign up for kickstarter, it’s very simple. If you have an amazon account already, then you’ll only need to sign up for kickstarter. If not, an amazon account is also very easy to sign up for as well. Just keep an eye out for our campaign to start and you can give as little or as much as you feel comfortable with. And in the mean time if you want to check out kickstarter there are quite a few great campaigns going on right now. Anything at all is welcome. And if you don’t have the means to back our campaign that’s ok. Just the fact that you’re reading this means the world to us. But if you still want to help out, the best thing you can do is tell somebody about Love Brewing Company and our kickstarter campaign. The more people know what we’re doing the better. So please, Spread the Love!
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Love Brewing Company is preparing to embark on a new journey with our friends at http://www.kickstarter.com. If you’re not familiar with the platform, check ‘em out. They afford small businesses, like Love Brewing, to open up a portal and present opportunities for fans to show their support for a business’s success by donating funds. Obviously, there’s a win-win and in return for the donation, we send you a reward. There are different reward levels so you can support as much or as little as you would like.
Providing a little advance notice to get the pot stirring on this. We appreciate all the support that you have all given to us so far. We look forward to your support in growing our business venture and, eventually, bringing our awesome beers to a location near you!
We plan to try and launch this venture by Halloween. We will be sure to keep you all well informed.
Cheers!
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Father Judge High School hosted the 10th Annual Taste of NE Philly on Saturday, October 6th. Approximately 500 people attended to sample food and beverage selections from nearly 100 vendors. Love Brewing Company was invited to share a table with our friends from The Grey Lodge Pub.
The event was a BYOB but did have beverage offerings from a few local pubs and distributors. We offered three of our microbrews: Pumpkin Ale, Mango IPA and the Hefeweizen. With it being the fall season, the Pumpkin Ale was quite a hit. Instead of pouring the beer off a traditional faucet, we elected to use our stout faucet and pour it off nitrous. This enhanced the mouth feel giving it the creamy, pumpkin pie texture combined with the flavor. One patron even mentioned, “We had the Dogfish Pumpkin before we came and this one is better!”
The Mango IPA and Hefe were also hits with folks. When patrons stopped by to ask what we had to offer, we asked what they were used to drinking. Those without a refined palete indicating traditional American Lagers as their beer of choice, we offered the Hefe. Much to their delight, they were pleased with the beer and kept coming back for more. We may have created a few converts — Changing people’s beer one pour at a time!
Overall, it was a successful event. We ended up killing 25 gallons of beer and helping host a successful event. We made some new friends and shared our craft beer with the masses. This was our first organized pouring exhibition but definitely won’t be our last!
We participated in the beer garden along with The Grey Lodge and Three Monkeys.
Dave setting up the CO2 and Nitrous for the kegs. We used a randall “Cunningham” filled with fresh mangos for our Mango IPA.
Dave and Shaw prepped and ready to pour our delicious beers.
Scoats and Marty from The Grey Lodge ready to pour.
The group from L-R: Marty, Jason, Rob, Shaw and Dave
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Well, I ran across something really cool today. The very first brew we ever created on a single sheet of paper. Our first brew day was a nightmare. We decided to brew a clone recipe just to make sure we had the process down and could get a grasp on what we were doing. We started off all-grain(yes it can be done with a little reading). If not for a few things the brewday would’ve been much easier, alas things happen and well, it was a 9 hour brewday. For starters our bucket that we were using to collect wort was not sealed 100% around the spigot and leaked some of our first runnings .
We ended up a little low on the gravity so we boiled a little longer to get the gravity up a little, alas we ended up with less beer than we wanted to.
I watched the fermenter after we pitched the yeast for what seemed like every 15 minutes for two days. I even got up in the middle of the night to check if there was any activity. Eventually after about 36 hours we had a nice krausen formed and the airlock was bubbling like crazy.
It’s interesting that even before Beersmith we kept extensive notes on the beer. And if you don’t have Beersmith(or another brewing program) I highly suggest it. As you can see we kept temperature logs every day.
And after about 6 weeks we had our first beer. It may be the greatest thing I’ve ever tasted just because we made it ourselves. Now looking back 2 1/2 years ago there were so many stupid things we did creating this beer, but it still turned out drinkable and actually quite tasty. So if you’re a new brewer starting out, don’t get discouraged. Everyone goes through these types of issues initially, the beer will more than likely be drinkable. If it’s not exactly what you wanted, just try again until you make that recipe the way you want it. I guarantee it’ll be very satisfying once you’ve got it the way you want it. And just remember the old homebrewer’s mantra RDWHAHB (Relax don’t worry have a homebrew).
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Over the weekend Love Brewing Company took a trip to Virginia to start our Hop Farm Project. We are hoping our project will yield a positive result and we will hopefully expand it in the future. We will update over time with pictures and the progress of our mini-hop farm experiment.
The land where the hop project will begin.
Found the plot of land where we decided would be best for hop growth and started to till the soil.
Our plot is slowly coming along.
We dug out 3 foot holes to anchor 4 foot rebar, then surrounded it with 1 1/2 pvc cut to 5 foot lengths. We then filled the pvc with sand to secure it.
Here we have our upper frames laid out with twine run between them. These will serve as the climbing points for our hops.
Once we had all the twine runs in place, we erected the structure. Filled the holes with sand for more rigidity and tied the corners down to secure the posts.
The finished structure with twine for the hops to climb up as well as twine for the arms to sprout out across. We will keep you update on the progress of our little experiment, we hope to have more pictures up within the next couple weeks.
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I decided to break out something nice for the first batch in the new brewery. So i broke out the Cantillon Classic Gueuze that has been sitting in my cellar for about a year. Great funk aroma on this one, not as sour as some others i’ve had but very balanced. Great sweetness of dark fruits coupled with a nice brett funk and sourness. Great beer for a warm spring day.
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Sorry we’ve been away
but we’re back for good.
We’ve moved operations, and bumped our batch output by more than double.
We hope that 2012 will be a big year for Love Brewing.
Our new filtered water supply and garage brewhouse.
Along with our keggle boil pot and bayou classic banjo burner.
We are now close to 1/2 bbl capacity.
Here’s our new kettle in action.
And as always….
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Barley Creek Brewing, the latest adventure for the Love Brewing Crew. A nice little brewpub Located in Tannersville.
The view from the outside of the brewpub, you can notice if you look closely the lager fermentation room through the big window. To the right is the 10bbl brew kettle which we’ll see closer in a minute.
Here is how they receive they’re mail. Sadly there was no beer inside, no wonder postal workers are so angry.
We hopped on the tour run by head brewer Joe Percoco, very knowledgeable and great insight into the brewing process. He even pointed out our Love Brewing T-shirt which he seemed to like very much. We let him know that they are available here at Lovebrewingcompany.com in our store. Here is the brew kettle as described in the previous photo. It is 10bbl(~310 gallons) and all of the brews are done through this kettle.
Next we take a look at the mash tun which is situated in close proximity to the kettle. You can see they have a thermometer mounted on the side as well as a sight glass running up the side of the mash tun.
Here is a nice shot of their grain mill, i would estimate that hopper probably has a 50 lb. capacity.
This room houses all of the ale fermenters, where all of the beers are stored and tapped from. All of the beer that is on tap upstairs runs right from the fermenters through the lines and up through the ceiling to your glass.
We stopped at the bar to grab some food along with some beers after the tour, they have a dedicated Sushi bar at Barley Creek with multiple varieties of sushi available.
At the end of the tour we were given samples of their 4 house beers which were in the tall serving glasses at the top.
From left to right (in the serving glasses):
Wanderlust chocolate porter
Antler Brown ale (although it’s empty)
Angler Black Lager
Navigator Golden Ale
We also were able to sample the following which are scattered amongst the bar:
Rescue IPA
Winterfest Lager
Super Hop Triple IPA
Mocha Stout
The two favorites out of the bunch were the Mocha Stout, and the Chocolate Porter. The Mocha Stout had a nice medium mouthfeel, with definite roast and coffee flavors and aroma. The chocolate porter was lighter, with a light roast flavor and pronounced cocoa. All in all it was a very nice little brewpub, except for the New York Mets signage of course.
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The highly sought after second release of the Backstage Series from Founders, Canadian Breakfast Stout. This beer was very hard to come by, and highly acclaimed. Canadian Breakfast Stout is an Imperial Stout brewed with a blend of coffees and imported chocolates aged in Bourbon barrels that have been aging Michigan Maple syrup.
We poured this for New Years Eve, thanks goes to Jason on this one. It pours a very dark brown almost black, with a minimal head. The aroma is of coffee and chocolate, maple syrup is definitely evident with a minimal vanilla and oak. The taste is very sweet, primarily due to the maple syrup. Nice thick mouthfeel, with coffee and chocolate along with slight bourbon and oak flavors. Overall it is a smooth drinking imperial stout, definitely in my top 5. If you can find it, i suggest buying it. The hype for this beer was a little over the top but it is very good.
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