The first new ON TAP of the new year is not a beer. Who woulda thunk it? Next Saturday we'll be putting our first attempt at a draft cider on tap. BirthRight is a draft cider made from Uncle John's Cider in St. Johns, MI. We heat pasteurized the cider to eliminate any wild yeast strains and added cinnamon, cane sugar and honey and then fermented it with an English ale yeast strain. The resulting beverage is sweet up front and finishes bone dry with tastes of cinnamon and apples.
BirthRight is probably actually closer to an apple wine, but I've never tasted it carbonated which could make a huge difference in the flavor and mouth feel of the cider. Regardless, this will be a nice change of pace from all that boring beer and hopefully will allow some of our patrons that don't care for beer to enjoy something fermented at Bashore Brewing.
Also, because we haven't posted in a while be on the look out in the coming weeks for several new taps (providing some of the beers on tap get drank). Here's a list of some of the beer to look forward to over the next couple of months.
Baptized by Fire - this is an english red ale. Smooth and easy drinking with a much maltier backbone than its American cousin 5.25%ABV
MattStar - this is the first of our Patron Inspiration Series Beers and profiles Matt Junak. This is a hugely rich Belgian Imperial Stout with a roasted malt backbone and dried fruit character. ~8% ABV
The Amazing Rando - The second in the Patron Inspiration Series this is a banana n cream stout our as we like to say a Manana N' Cream Stout....because of all the manliness in this ale. This beer is fresh into fermentation, but will hopefully have noted of coffee, bitter sweet chocolate and a sweet banana creaminess ~6ish% ABV
Cletus Joe's Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout - short and sweet, this is Kremlin Joe's RIS aged in Makers Mark Bourban Barrels for 3 or 4 months (haven't decided yet). This will be an incredibley strong bourban influenced beer. 13% ABV
Cuvee de Guerre - this is our WarChild Quadruple aged for 4 months in cherry wine barrel. This should really dry this ale out and add an even great layer of fruitiness. ~9.5% ABV
Cuvee de Brasseur batch# 2 - Over the past year we have had a funky barrel going and we have been continuously blending ales into and out of it to sour. The first batch went into bottles and is extremely limited. Recently, I decided to drain the barrel and start with a fresh base beer. So I decided to turn the second batch of Cuvee de Brasseur into a Kriek or cherry wild ale. This will be the first wild ale on tap at Bashore BrewHaus and is without a doubt the hardest type of beer to make well.....not saying ours is made well. We'll let you judge for yourself. ?? ABV
Finally, look for the second release of Pineapple Express in early spring.....this there will be 5 gallons and it will be on tap!!
