Great Raft Brewing

Haha, I was literally buying a couple classic 375 loons when you posted this.

 

Must be nice! Let us know if yall ever head this way and we'll put together a tasting.

 

Yea, I just happened to be on the northshore and there is a store there where good stuff that will linger. Found a couple hanging in the cooler. It is usually doesn't even make it to the shelves in BR.

Sounds good! I need to make a trip up to Great Raft sooner or later.

 

I'm curious to try Creature of Habit. At Arms Length was very good.

Also, I just finished rearranging some of my beers so is anybody in need of some 12 bottle shippers? I have three taking up space and they're the good Styrofoam insert variety.

 

I tried a pour of creature of habit Thursday when I picked up a couple of bottles, it's just as good as the first batch in my opinion. It's smooth roasty coffee without being overly bitter. It'd be awesome to see an imperial version around 10% @AndrewNations

 

Thanks. Scaling up 10 gallon recipes is a real challenge. I really wanted to find the balance of coffee and brown ale since coffee is almost always added to higher abv stuff.

Brewing our last seasonal beer of the year tomorrow. Awkward Uncle. 10% Belgian Strong Ale. Cant wait to share artwork...

 

I can't wait for that one! I missed it last year, but I won't this time around. Im really liking these monthly releases, and the Reasonably Corrupt variants were very good too, any chance more of those one offs will show up in the tasting room?

 

you should add vanilla with the 10% bump also because coffee and vanilla go together surprisingly well...

That's an awesome name for a winter seasonal...

sweet action. Shoot me a BM and we can work out a way to get these things out of my spare bedroom.

Also, not to clutter the thread but come December I might be looking to offer up some space in a 12 bottle shipper from the Bruery depending on how large December allocations are. By that I mean if it's on the website I'll buy it and somebody else can pay me for it. Right now I'm at seven full cases plus three stragglers and shipping 12 is cheaper by the bottle.

 

A couple weeks out..

 

@AndrewNations I saw y'all are added cherries to Awkward Uncle, is that going to be a draft only version or was that for the entire batch?

 

Entire batch. Draft and 22oz.

 

Tough one to answer. As soon as possible though. Grace and Grit will see multiple releases next year while AMT is just a spring beer. We plan to brew a lot more, in terms of volume, of both.

 

That's great news, Grace and Grit is so damn good and all our trade partners love it! Will there be bottles of Awkward Uncle available Thursday when yall open like with previous releases or will it all be Friday night?

 

Yes, and i also need a fix of Make Believer. Dead serious my favorite session IPA i have ever had...

I have tried them all as well....

 

Draft Thursday and bottles will be released Friday at the brewery.

I know....Me too. Working on it.

 

Awesome.
So very proud to have Great Raft in Shreveport. Y'all absolutely crushed my expectations for
your first what, 13 months?

Just a phenomenal job.