G'day Boomerphiles Remember my famous last words on my previous posting;
PS: We sampled our Roggenbier today. OMG x 10!!!! The colour, the flavours, the aromas! Stay tuned because it will be a Boomers signature beer for all to enjoy!
The dread of all brewers. A magnificent brew that turns bad during the fermentation phase. We (read me!) were devastated as we had beer anticipating our first Roggenbier since the concept of Boomers entered our tiny minds over a year ago. Since my first taste of Jason's home brewing version I had been hooked. The flavours were magnificent and as I've said in my famous last words above what we got prior to fermentation just added to our view of the quality of the beer. Superb! So what happened? Well as all craft brewers will know clean once, flush, clean twice, flush, sterilise, clean, flush, sterilise, clean, flush, sterilise, etc. Well not quite that many times but it does sometimes feel like it. However cleanliness (according to theologian and philosopher Saint Thomas of Aquinas is next to godliness) is critical to ensure you don't get any random infections that render your prized brew only suitable for the briny deep! Well we were meticulous in our cleaning regime so where was the Big G when the beer went off!!! Well after hours of deep thought, investigative forensic examination and numerous pints of beer we think we know what happened. A lot of Boomers gear is new, as were the brand spanking new food grade 60lt plastic fermenters, and recognising that we washed the offending vessel 3 times with suitable sterilisers and even a specific product to remove any residual production residues in plastic vessels. Well we're convinced that we got a chemical leaching out of the brand new fermenter. Bastard!!! How do we know? We’ve repeated the steps & made another Roggenbier and as we were pitching the yeast we noticed quite a difference in the surface of the beer. Too long to explain here but this time we're using 2 x 30lt fermenters that have been used by Jason many times before with great success so we expect a better outcome for our latest sublime smelling Roggenbier. Why no pictures on this posting you ask? Well picture yourself at the grave site of an old mate who has sadly just passed. They've just plonked him in the hole. Do you run through the crowd flashing away with the digital camera so you have a questionable screen saver remember him by? I think not and remember I know which if you sick puppies out there are saying "yeah" which is why I'm being BBQ'd!! The correct answer is NO YOU DON'T! I had a quite man sob, we poured the sucker out, swore a bit and Jason & I s olemnly celebrated the passing with copious amounts of other peoples brews. This was done with great sadness and predominantly for market research purposes only of course. Bit of respect ya heathen rabble!
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