The Jack’s Abby + Springdale brew crew just wrapped up it’s hop selection for the 2017 harvest. This consisted of two trips to Germany, one trip to Yakima Washington, and one in-house hop review with our team. Hops are an interesting agricultural product. I won’t bore you with the history, other than to point…
We will have bottles and growlers of our Mom & Pop’s Pumpkin Crop Lager available this Friday. This beer features pumpkins grown locally and prepared at Volante Farms in Needham. Perfect for the fall season, a blend of autumnal spices complements an intense pumpkin flavor. Pumpkin Crop Lager uses 100% locally sourced ingredients. OG 13.5…
Our farm in Vermont is on the verge of its largest hop harvest ever which we will be using to make our specialty Wet Hop Beer. To make a Wet Hop Beer the hops need to be used in the brew immediately. Our plan is to drive all the bines to the brewery on the…
Originally Posted at The Beer Nut Even though we’re not brewing beer yet, there’s lots going on at the brewery. We will be open to the public three days a week starting June, 2. Our hours will be Thursday/Friday from 3-7 and Saturday from 12-4. We invite you to stop by, look around, and chat…
[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…
