Happy World Beard Day

Today is World Beard Day and accordingly here is a nod from this Hairy Brewer to these hirsute heroes from the archives of Southwold's RNLI.  Hairy victorian seafarers - the kind of folk we would like to have been able to brew for.  I guess they drank Adnams, established 1872, so a start up micro of the time.

Extra Virgin Porter is born.....

 We added some Cherries to the first of Hairy Brewers original recipe Porter!

We had a good result - the porter tastes great but we'll need a more effective way to get the cherry hit we were looking for. Still the torrified wheat is definitely doing its job. People drank more than one out of choice. This is a winner.

Sweet Sweet Hoppy Goodness

 

Having perfected process it's all about the fine tuning, the age of the brewer weighing and adding the hops may have a proportional impact on the alpha-acid concentration, once the age to height ratio has been calculated.  Using this little one may increase our sweetness while not affecting the bitterness unit of our experimental Black Cherry Porter.