On Tap
Benny's Bier
AKA Unhinged Kolsch
Unhinged /ənˈhinjd/ adjective; 1) highly disturbed, unstable, or distraught 2) mentally unbalanced; deranged
A light to mid- bodied beer with a subtle fruitiness and a slightly dry finish. The malt profile is slightly biscuity, while the Hallertau Blanc hops contribute floral and subtle fruity notes providing the customary balance between hops and malt of the style. As is typical of Kolsch, this is a crisp, easy to drink beer at 5.4% ABV and 21 IBU with a pale straw color.
Gonzo a classic Irish Stout
Gonzo / gŏn′zō ˈ/ adjective; crazy, excited, or unrestrained; extreme, unconventional, or bizarre; using an exaggerated, highly subjective style, as in journalism
A delightfully dry brew with notes of coffee, chocolate, and caramel, Gonzo finishes with that characteristic touch of dry-roasted astringency. The beer is black with a tan head. For all of its complexity of flavor, this is an easy drinking beer at 4.5% ABV and 32 IBU.
Current Goings On
Gyle 25-03
Unhinged AKA Benny's Bier (Kolsch).
23 February 2025.
Another barrell of this outstanding Kolsch was made today. You keep drinking it, we'll keep making it.
Gyle 25-02
Craiceáilte (Irish red ale).
18 February 2025.
Well, since we tore down, rearranged, and reassembled the SRM Beverage brewery, we're a little behind in total brewing for the year and we're "skipping ahead" to a brew for Saint Patrick's day. That's not to say we're ahead of schedule for Saint Patrick's Day, just that we had a couple of brew cycles in mind that we didn't get to.
Craiceáilte is slightly maltier than many Irish red ales, but isn't overly sweet and still dries out at the end. The brew day went reasonably well and clean up was a bit easier than many in the past. We'll be toasting with this starting about 14 March 2025.
Gyle 25-01
Unhinged AKA Benny's Bier (Kolsch).
05 January 2025.
We're starting off the new brew year in a great way with Benny's Bier produced by Tenacity Brewing with SRM Beverage.
As we've noted in some previous posts, Benny's Bier is rather well appreciated by the patrons of Benny's Bierhalle in Millington, MI, so much so that we've failed to keep up with demand. So to start 2025 we ran multiple brews on the small system to come up with 2 BBLs as quickly as we can. The brew day went well, if a bit long.
Gyle 24-11
Crackers (Vienna lager).
23 December 2024.
The second SRM Beverage recipe going bigger than 1 BBL per fermentation is Crackers. We're again on the 7 BBL system at Tenacity and enjoying the opportunity to make bigger batches of SRM Beverage beer. The brew day went pretty doggone well. The drive home in the freezing whatever was a bit of a drag, but we all got home safely with the beer fermenting away.
We'll see if everything worked in scaling up and making the other adjustments required to run on the 7 BBL system work out. If you don't already know, it isn't just simple multiplication when you scale recipes and switch brew systems.
Fun Thoughts
I don't know if I ever had political virginity, but if I did, I think you just took it. —Lewis Cole, Primary Storm, Brendan Dubois
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. –Milton Berle
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. —Casey Stengel
Everybody has to believe in something... I believe I’ll have another drink. —W.C. Fields