A few of us here at barismo fashion ourselves to be amateur craft beer geeks and spend our days off trying to discover exciting new beers. After drinking copious amounts of coffee during an average day here at the roastery, it is almost necessary to drink a few pints of some good, local beer to…
I’m pretty sure I learned to love beer before I learned to cook, and certainly before I learned to cook with beer! My first adventures in cooking with beer were mostly marinades, but I quickly found that the right beer can bring almost any dish to life. The beers of Jack’s Abby are perfect for cooking—from the…
Originally Posted at The Beer Nut We are finally approaching the point where we will be ready to start brewing. The last piece of equipment has shipped and should be here soon. While we wait on that, there are still many things to finish so that we can devote our full attention to brewing. This…
Originally Posted at The Beer Nut Just because Jack’s Abby isn’t brewing at the brewery yet doesn’t mean we aren’t making beer. We recently made a homebrew test batch of Leisure Timer Lager, our summer seasonal. Our goal was to create a refreshing golden lager with wheat and spice character. We envisioned a lager that…
Originally Posted at The Beer Nut. We have a lot going on this week at Jack’s Abby Brewing as we are getting closer and closer to the first brew day. We recently received our fermentation vessels along with our hot and cold liquor tanks. The tank delivery was an exciting day. Three trucks arrived early…
[Originally published at The Beer Nut] Here at Jack’s Abby Brewing we have decided to do something different than most craft brewers. We will be focusing entirely on lagers for our initial beers. Lagers are one of the two main families of beer, with ales being the other. The vast majority of craft brewers focus on…
[Originally published at The Beer Nut] One of the most exciting projects we have going on at Jack’s Abby Brewing is our hop project. The endeavor started innocently enough when my mother and I brought back a Cascade hop plant from a trip to Washington in 2005. It was planted at our parent’s farm in Vermont…
[Originally published at The Beer Nut] We are really excited that Norman has given us at Jack’s Abby Brewing the chance to guest write each week on his blog. Going forwards we will use this opportunity to take you inside the process of starting a brewery from construction to the brewing process. First though we thought it…
