ON TAP this weekend: WarChild Quadruple

This upcoming week and weekend are pretty busy for Irene and I so I wanted to take the time to announce that starting this weekend we'll have our first Belgian Dark Strong Ale on tap. WarChild Quadruple was brewed with the holidays in mind and is extremely rich and heavy. It is also very very limited. Only 2 gallons of this brew exist....I wish I would have made more after sampling it a week or so ago. I'm really hoping this brew makes it to New Years Eve so that it can get as much exposure as possible, but I have a feeling it'll go pretty fast. On the plus side, I am conditioning a barrel aged version of it that should be on tap in late February.

WarChild pours a deep brown color and smells of dried fruits and alcohol. The tasted is much of the same. It has a ton of fruit flavor up front that gives way to a rich brown sugar/alcohol burn. I am very excited that this beer turned out as well as it did and I personally am very excited to drink a few tulips full between this weekend and New Years Eve. Only a few weeks until our New Years Eve Party and I really hope to see as many of you there as possible.....should be a good night.

I want to send a special thank you to Randy for designing all of the labels for these beers. Every label is very cool! Drink UP!!!

NOW ON TAP: Palate Pulverizer IPA

Each year early in the Spring my hops peek there heads out of the brick around our house and go crazy and grow super high. I take the hops that I get from these vine every year in August and craft a home grown IPA called Palate Pulverizer. Palate Pulverizer has a sweet malty backbone that eventually gives way to a strong herbal hop bitterness as the beer ages. This years version of Palate Pulverizer is 8% ABV and is over 100 IBU's although you wouldn't guess that it was that hoppy because my goal is to balance the bitterness and sweetness as much as possible with this beer. We usually make a couple of hoppy beers every year at Bashore Brewing, but this is the only one that uses Bashore Brewing hops. So far Irene and Dave Kennedy have each had pints of it and both of them seemed to enjoy it. This beer should be on tap for the New Years Eve Party this year, but feel free to stop in and have a pint anytime.

CHEERS!

Only 5 Days Left!!

Only 5 Days left to vote on your favorite theme for this years New Years Eve Party....that only gives you until the beginning of next week. Right now it looks like a 70's themed party is in the lead, so if that isn't your choice get your vote in.

Also, be on the look out for a new beer release next week as we put out Palate Pulverizer IPA. This is the only beer in which we use our home grown hops. MMM MMM GOOD!!

New Years Eve Party Theme in Question

Every year we like to throw a themed New Years Eve party, just to have some fun and to see how creative people can be with there outfits...kind of a Halloween 2. This years proposed theme was a "Reverse Pimps N' Hoes Party" with the girls dressing like pimps and the guys dressing like hoes. This idea has met with a lot of resistance on the side of the fellas. That being said Irene and I would rather throw a themed party that everyone can get behind and support than something that makes people feel uncomfortable. Lets put the theme to a vote and see what everyone is thinking. I'm gonna start a new poll question on the left hand side of the blog page with 4 ideas for themes. There will only be 10 days that this poll will be open so make sure to get your votes in quickly for whatever party seems like it would be the most fun. Here's the 4 ideas.....

• Reverse Pimps N' Hoes Party - I didn't want to take the original them off the table, in the outside chance that this was something everyone still wanted to do. Pretty straight forward....guys dress like hoes and girls dress like pimps.
• Fancy Dress Party - Think church or a wedding....everyone dresses up in fancy clothes for New Years. Guys can wear collared shirts and ties or suits or sweater vests and girls can wear dresses or skirts or a powersuit....or just dressy. We could turn this into a fancy dress masquerade ball if that sounds like fun as well.
• Graffiti Party - This is a pretty easy party to throw. Everyone buys a white or light colored plain shirt and we'll get a bunch of different colored markers and your shirt is a canvas for everyone to write/draw on.....kinda crazy to look back on afterwards and see how the shirt turns out.
• 1970's Dress Up Party - In the tradition of the 80's party we threw a few years ago this would just involve everyone dressing up for the era of the 1970's. Pretty all encompassing....you could go hippie, disco, vietnam, or rock n' roll.....just as long your outfit is filled with all of that 70's love.

I'll posted the results of the poll on the blog in 10 days and change the facebook invitation accordingly.

Cheers and Happy Voting!

Matt & Irene

NOW ON TAP: Emma Rose Abbey Ale

November 24th, 2009 is a day that will always be special for Irene and I. On November 24th at 12:48 am we welcomed our first child into this world as Emma Rose Bashore was born with her eyes wide open. Since I found out that Irene would spend 9 months "heavy with child" I decided to create a beer for my little girl.

Hopefully, this winter will offer similar special feelings for anyone that tries this beer. I really had no idea how the beer would turn out, but I knew I wanted to use an interesting ingredients in it. Obviously, that ingredient would be roses. Now because most rose petals are heavily sprayed with pesticides I was not able to use actual rose petals. Instead, I used rose hips, which are the fruits produced by rose bushes, and I used rose water. I melded these ingredients into a Belgian Abbey Ale.

The result of this is a beer that will taste and smell like no beer you've ever had before. Emma Rose is very fragrant ale that literally smells like liquid flowers and is somewhat perfumey. The flavor also offers a bit of a floral as well. However, up front it has a sweet, sharp citric acidity that's complemented by a nice malty backbone. Having had a few pints already I will say that as my ales go this one changes a lot as it warms up.

Feel free to stop anytime this December to try a fresh pint of Emma Rose Abbey Ale. This ale will most likely be on tap for our Hoes n' Pimps New Years Eve party as well.

Cheers!

Beer Olympics Wins

Polls are closed on which event over the past year was your favorite at Bashore BrewHaus and Beer Olympics won out. This is definetely an event that we're going to try and throw again next year with a few tweeks to try and ensure that down time is eliminated. Aside from that we'll be throwing a reverse pimps n hoes party for New Years Eve this year. St. Patricks falls on a Wednesday this year so we'll prolly throw a party around that time to celebrate the Spring with several dark ales. Also, we'll be throwing a Halloween party as our fall event this year on the last Saturday in October. Just a few things to look forward to at Bashore BrewHaus this year.

I also wanted to annouce an addition to the BrewHaus and she'll be a full time addition. Emma Rose Bashore was born on November 24th 2009 and weighed 7 lbs 4oz. Come check out her name sake beer on tap starting December 8th Emma Rose Abbey Ale.....brewed with Roses!!! It certainly will not taste or smell like any beer you've ever had before.

Cheers and Happy Holidays!
Matt, Irene & Emma Rose

Kremlin Joe Batch #2 on Tap Dec. 1st

After a month or so of really nothing on tap, I'm proud to say that new beers will be going on tap starting December 1st. with our Russian Imperial Stout Kremlin Joe's. This is the second time I have brewed this beer which turned out to be a favorite of mine when it was originally on tap last March. Kremlin Joe's was brewed a bit differently this time which had adverse effects on the ABV of the beer, but intial tastings have proved to me that ther same flavor profiles from Batch #1 are present in Batch #2. This Batch of Kremlin Joe's weighs in at 10% ABV which is less than the stout bomb that was dropped last Spring when Batch #1 weighed in at ~13% ABV. Hopefully the lower alcohol will make it a more drinkable brew. Kremlin Joe is an extremely thick and heavy ale with tons of chocolate, coffee, molasses, roasted malt and whiskey flavors shouting at your taste buds with every sip. My intial plan was to release 5 beers for our New Years Eve Party, but I really cannot wait that long for some good stout. In addition to Kremlin Joe look for his cousin Cletus Joe to be release sometime late in Febuary. Cletus will be a Kentucky Bourban Barrel version of Kremlin Joe. Cletus Joe will be aged on American Oak using Makers's Mark & Jim Beam for bourban flavor.

Starting December 1st a new beer will be released every week until New Years Eve. Here's a rough schedule of the releases:

• Dec 1st - Kremlin Joe's Russian Imperial Stout
• Dec. 8th - Emma Rose Abbey Ale
• Dec. 15th - Palate Pulverizor
• Dec. 22nd - WarChild Quadruple
• New Years Eve @ Midnight - Bashore BrewHaus' 1st Anniversary Ale