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Troy Casey of AC Golden Q&A Part 2
***A lot of great response from the first part of my Q&A with AC Golden brewer Troy Casey. So as promised last week here is part 2! Enjoy! *** ETF: What’s the temp range and the swing of the barrels? I haven’t seen the barrel room, but you said it’s inside of the brewery, so…
BrandonTroy Casey of AC Golden Q&A Part 1
I finally finished typing up my latest brewer interview and it’s one I think you will find really interesting and eye opening. A few months ago I spoke with Troy Casey a brewer at AC Golden with their Hidden Barrel Project: A project that is turning out Sour and Wild Beers in the heart of…
I Feel Like Funkin’ It Up…Feel Like Funkin It Up!
Here I go again with the TV show ties…The title is a reference to a song by The Rebirth Brass Band most recently used in the show Treme‘ and one I heard live during a recent New Orleans trip. Well I do feel like Funkin’ it up! I hope you do too because….. Here is the official…
What’s coming up?
I wanted to give you a quick update and overview about what’s coming up on the website. I’m still doing the brewer Q&A’s and have an awesome one with Troy Casey who is a brewer at AC Golden…in their sour and barrel program. Yes AC Golden has a very nice sour and wild beer program….
Big Batch Brew Day!
I’ve been looking forward to the day when I had the chance to write this blog entry…the day I get to talk about brewing a full size batch of sour goodness for the Embrace The Funk series at Yazoo. Yep on March 2nd Linus Hall and I brewed a full 40bbl batch on the big…
Hill Farmstead Membership: Some Deets From Shaun
About a week ago Shaun Hill of Hill Farmstead Brewery shocked many beer lovers by announcing an upcoming membership sale. The owner of the recently awarded RateBeer #1 Brewery In The World gave Embrace The Funk a few details about the program and how you can get access to some of the great sour/wild beers in…
Some Yazoo Notes and The Dark Passenger Rises
I hope everyone’s New Year is going awesome so far. It seems like things have gotten busier for me after the holidays, but wow it’s a good and fun type of busy. In November I wrote about the Embrace The Funk Series by Yazoo. The project is coming along nicely with the beers Linus and…
Hoppy 100% Brett Dark Beers Q&A with Chad Yakobson of Crooked Stave
A few weeks ago Mr. Brett-man himself was in Nashville to speak/judge at the 2012 Music City Brewoff. I had the chance to sit down with Chad Yakobson of Crooked Stave to talk about brewing darker wort, hoppy, 100% Brettanomyces beers. ETF- When you are back building a dark hoppy brett beer like Wild Wild…
We want the Funk…Give up the funk!
You’ve got a real type of thing going down – George Clinton So back in July I mentioned 2 potential pieces of news I was excited about…one still needed to be confirmed, which was Linus Hall (Owner of Yazoo Brewing Company) and I were going to use one of my funky barrels to age a…
And The Funk Was Embraced
<brag mode on> Maybe the Mayans were right and 2012 is indeed it because I’m not sure I could have a better beer weekend than this past one. Everything from Chad Yakobson’s awesome talk – to me winning best of show – to a late night Waffle House group run that included “chocolate-peanut butter-bacon-maple syrup…