Daily Beer Digest

Here is the first installment of Daily Beer Digest, which I hope will be a recurring event.

I had a few extra minutes this morning, so I added the dry hops to my Bitter Beer Face American Bitter, which I brewed on March 6. Thanks to all those on the Beer Advocate Homebrewing forum for helping out with this one. This was my first time adding dry hops in the carboy--rather than in the keg--with unwaxed dental floss used to hold the hop bag in suspension. The procedure was easy enough, and hopefully it yields good results.

Upland Lambics went on sale at 12:00 PM EDT this afternoon. This round Upland offered the Blackberry and Cherry Lambics with a limit of 1 per style per person at $20 per bottle. Amy and I were each lucky enough to grab an allocation of each style. Looking forward to it as the Blackberry is the only variety I haven't been able to try yet.

Deschutes has finalized expansion plans that will eventually result in a capacity increase of 105,000 barrels, responding to an increase in demand for their products. Good news has been coming from Deschutes lately, as they also recently announced that they'll be pasteurizing their beer that comes out of barrels after having infection issues with 2009 Abyss and 2009 Mirror Mirror. Amy and I were luckily spared with The Abyss, as none of our 6 bottles were infected. We're hoping for the same for the 3 bottles of Mirror Mirror I gave Amy for Christmas, as this it's one of her favorite beers. We opened one that was infection-free just after Christmas, so we're hoping that the rest are the same and have the refrigerated just to be safe.

The beer menu for SAVOR was announced. Overall, some very good things to try, though some breweries are a bit disappointing. I'd especially like to see Cigar City be a little bit more adventurous. I wasn't particularly pleased with them offering off-the-shelf bottled beers at this year's Night of the Funk, especially with the knowledge that I had passed on this year's Hunahpu's release and its crazy draft lineup in favor of the Night of the Funk / Extreme Beer Fest combo.

Hoosier Beer Geek put up an interview with Barnaby from Three Floyds, detailing some information about this year's Dark Lord Day. Judging by the picture in the post, this year's wax color with be yellow.

In other absolutely fantastic Three Floyds news, Zombie Dust (formerly Cenotaph) will apparently be released in six packs.

Founders' new bottling line is up and running.

Brew Your Own posted on article on reading malt specification sheets.

Alaskan Brewing will be headed to Minnesota starting in May. Great news for me, as now I should be able to order their beers when I make my online Surly purchases at France 44.

Trading Partners

LIFs Sponsored

Andechser Doppelbock Dunkel (Winner: khumbard)

BIFs

Blind BIF Round 4 - Local Pride (sitarist)
- Shipped to: sholland119
- Received from: ChrisPro

N00B BIF Round 3 (Urbancaver)
- Shipped to: wchollif
- Received from: WhyBeNormal

Barleywine BIF (Hophead101)
- Shipped to: AttitudeBrew
- Received from: AleWatcher

Light Whale 2.0 (Speedway Jim)
- Shipped to: Scalene
- Received from: Mages64

March Madness BIF (flexabull)
- Shipped to: KeefD
- Recived from: None. I hate Ohio State and Kansas more than ever.

Generosity BIF (Urbancaver)
- Shipped to: AgentZero
- Received from: rmalinowski4

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- Shipped to: BennyXL1
- Received from: HikerCT

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- Shipped to: dougofthefuture
- Received from: dougofthefuture

Good People Don't Need Rules (AleWatcher)

- Shipped to: mikesgroove/thagr81us

- Received from: psiweaver

Blind BIF Round 6 (HopHead101)

- Shipped to: Brez07

- Received from: Brez07

Sour, Saison, and Funk (Thorpe429)
- Shipped to: ???
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