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In case you are wondering, I.M. Hammered Brewing is:
Mark -- Head brewer and drinker (brewer of over 65 batches of extract and all grain brews, drinker of many thousands of bottles and pints of beer), CEO and President of the finest Nano-brewery I know of, head bottle washer, and sanitation engineer
Liz -- Vice President in charge of bar decorating, keeping me from becoming too fanatical in my brewing habits, and is also known as "she who must be obeyed"
Michael -- Brewhouse assistant, equipment consultant, Chief IT Geek and self-appointed Official Beer Taster (great work if you can get it)
Schpankie -- Newest convert from fizzy yellow water to finely crafted beers and ales, adds little value to the brewhouse, but we like him anyway
Scooter -- The gas man (and I mean that in the kindest of ways) bringing propane and co2 when needed, also has keen interest in the brewing process
Knuckle Jefe -- Newest convert to brewing (has four batches under his belt), has began a start up nano-brewery in Kentucky known as "Double-Wide Brewing" with the catchy slogan of "double wide beers at single wide prices". Boy has a brilliant future in marketing. IMH is helping with equipment in the start up. We all work for beer, then again, why wouldn't we.
Parrot Pete, aka, Pappa Draft
-- Bar designer, humidor raider, label celebrity, and Just because he should have been on the list the whole time.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
St Patrick's Day Eve....Beer Store Success....Are You Ready....
SPDE:
Good evening web watchers and welcome to the I.M. Hammered Brewing Company Web Site!! And Happy St Patrick's Day Evening to ya!! It's the night before that magical evening when the beer flowing is generally black, or red, and sometimes green. Why green I don't know, but sometimes. My advice to all is that if you're out for evening, be careful, drink responsibly, or have a designated driver (and stay away from the green stuff). I want you all back to read my ramblings often, so please be an adult tomorrow and tomorrow night. That said, find some fun, wear some green and be Irish because, everybody is Irish on St Paddy's Day.....
Success:
My trip to the beer store was again a success. I procured a new keg for the pub in record time. That is a very fresh keg of Yuengling Traditional Lager. What this beer is, is a traditional American pre-prohibition lager. Amber in color, made with a portion of adjunct, in this case rice, but brewed with more malt than a typical American standard of today, and it has enough hops in it to taste them. Now, this is still a watered down version of what these beers must have been at the turn of the century as the old world brewers relocated from Germany to the US, but it is still a very strong example of it. I love it and it tells you what American beer can be and should be even today. I know this, they can't make it fast enough it sells so quickly. The last I heard, they are brewing three shifts a day at the big brewery and at least two shifts in the Carolina and Florida breweries. The beer is very hot on the east coast specifically in the Carolina region all the way up to Philly and into lower New York State. A testament to what you can do even in today's ultra light lager market if you make a good product at a reasonable price. Cheers to Dick Yuengling and the Yuengling brewing family.....
Are You Ready:
Well, are you?? Ready for spring? Tomorrow marks the first of the spring "fling" holidays (I don't count mardi gras, even though it is quite a bit more decadent, because it is much more regional in nature). SPD is the first real day that signals spring is right around the corner. In fact, the first day of spring is a short 5 days away. Winter went much faster this year than last but I'm still ready for nicer weather to bestow itself upon us. Part of being ready for tomorrow in particular, is to have stout on hand in your fridge. If you don't have any yet, shame on you. Get your buttocks down to the beer store and get some Guiness, Murphy's, Beamish, Samuel Smith, or American craft brewed stout (Bells Kalamazoo Stout is a good choice as is Sierra Nevada). I'm ready as I made an Oatmeal Stout (Samuel Smith's as a guide) and it is good. And I'm going to surely have one or two tomorrow for sure. I suggest it to all. Have fun and above all be careful!!
Now get out there and get that stout for tomorrow. If you don't like stout, look for an Irish Red (no Killian's doesn't count) like Smithwick's, Murphy's, or some of the American craft Irish Red's (Great Lake Brewing's Conway Irish Red Ale comes to mind as a good choice).
Happy St Patrick's Day!!
Mark, The Brewer, and wearin' the green but drinkin' the black liquid tomorrow evening..........
