NOW on TAP - A Two-fer

Now on Tap
Home Grown
American Strong Ale
8.25% ABV


&

Funky Punkin
Wild Ale
7.5% ABV


If you wanna know what they taste like.....you'll have to come to the Bashore BrewHaus.....Happy Halloween!!!

Now on Tap

NOW ON TAP
Bashore Fest
5.0% ABV



Well folks its that time of the year.....as the weather gets colder the beer gets heavier and so we present the return of a brewer favorite. Bashore Fest is back. This is a traditional German style Marzen. It's been on tap once before in the Bashore BrewHaus, two years ago for our first and only Oktoberfest. Apparently, it was popular with all the friends too because it only stayed on tap for about 5 hours before it blew. This version is a tad lighter in alcohol, but still has a wonderful malt backbone. I guess we'll see if it lasts for longer than a day this time. It'll be flowing hard this Saturday at the Halloween Party!!

NOW ON TAP: 10/8/11

NOW ON TAP

SewALT Bier

Dark German Ale

5.4% ABV




It's a rarity that a person gets lucky enough to run meet a like minded person from another country in a separate country half way around the world by chance. That is exactly what happened to me when Irene and I traveled to Munich, Germany for our 1st wedding anniversary 3 years ago.

Let me tell the tale. We decided very early on that we wanted to travel to Europe for our anniversary especially considering the date of our anniversary marked the 1st day of Oktoberfest in Munich. So we decided to make a big trip out of it and travel to Ireland and visit Irene's high school and college friend Mary and her now husband John. We also decided to travel to Scotland for a few days. So between Scotland and Munich we traveled back to Dublin, Ireland for a night out with Irish Mary and Shake N Bake John. Now for the stupidity of this story to make sense you need to understand that Irene and I had to board a flight to Munich the next morning at 6:30 am. So after what I remember to be a very fun night out in Dublin complete with several pints of Guinness and maybe a shot or two of Jameson, Irene and I got a cab back to our bed where we proceeded to get about an hour and a half of sleep. We both felt pretty okay when we woke up.....probably because we were still shit faced.....so we go to the airport and the gravity of how this plane trip was gonna go started to set in. By the time we boarded....I wanted to just curl up and die.

So flash forward two hours after passing out on the plane to Frankfurt, Germany.....I wake up with what might have been one of the top 5 hangovers of my life......DUMB DUMB DUMB. Thank god for the toilet on the plane and in the terminal in Frankfurt. So after sleeping on a bench in the airport for a little over an hour we board another plane to Munich......needless to say by the time we got to our hotel in Munich all Irene and I wanted to do was sleep.....and we did!!

When we woke up we decided, we should go out.....how often are you in Munich and laying in bed sucks. So we decide to go to the Hofbrauhaus, the largest beer hall in Munich. After searching for a table for 5 or 10 minutes a nice couple offered us to sit down with them. We came to find out there names were Leonardo and Caroline and they were from Brazil and of course were here for Oktoberfest. Cool!

Further conversation revealed Leo was a home brewing that was very heavy into beer advocacy in Brazil in trying to spark a craft beer movement.....of course we had lots to talk about......thank god he spoke good English, cause I don't know any Portuguese. We ended up hanging out with them the next 2 days at the tents for Oktoberfest and I can honestly say the experience would not have been as much fun without them. Very nice people.

Flash forward a year, I email Leo occasionally to see how things are and to chat about how much we miss Germany....side note Irene and I were there for 3 days, Leo and Carline were there for over a month......damn American vacation time!!!! Okay, back to the story....I asked Leo something about Germany bier and he must have taken it as me asking for advice on how to make beer....so he sends me this recipe for a traditional German Alt Bier. I say thank you and don't think much of it.....

Flash forward two more years to today.....I decided it'd be fun to brew an Alt and it just so happened I already had a recipe on file from my Brazilian friend.....so this one is dedicated to Leo and Caroline.....maybe we'll meet up again some day in Germany or some place else. Regardless, I know it'll be fun!!!

Oh, what's Leo up to now? He's and owner/brewer for a brewery in Brazil.....lucky bastard!!!
Prosit!!
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Been on Tap: 10/8/11

Been on Tap

Tongue Punched Fart Box

Session Style Rye Pale Ale

4.75% ABV



Well guys this one has been on tap for a little while now, but there's still a little left so why not post on it.....just in case someone out there has an obsession with hops and rye in beer.

A while back Irene decided to give me a super awesome father's day present and buy me a 3 gallon keg, which gave me the ability to put 6 beers on tap..........YAY!!!! This is the first of my 3 gallon beers. T.P.F.B is just what you think low alcohol session and briskly hoppy. Its really nice to have the ability to put these small batches into a smaller keg because as a hoppy beer gets older the hops die out and the "WOW" factor is lost.....now with only 3 gallons the beer goes really fast. Its been on tap for maybe a month now and it tastes as good as it did day one. NOT MUCH LEFT THOUGH!!!!!