Grimm of the Future

Hallelujah, I'm very happy to see it on the island no less a few blocks away from me

 

YESSSS BGH and the owl farm are our go-to spots. such great people.

 

Had echoplex last night and I think it's the best dry hopped sour. Any chance for cans/bottles?

 

maybe, but psychokinesis would probably come back first since we love that one and it's only been brewed once. In the meantime we have Super Spruce, a no boil gose brewed with spruce tips and dry hopped with chinook -- getting bottled a week from today.

 

Sweet, can't wait to see that one around town. On a semirelated note, Mad Fermentationist (now of Modern Times) tried recreating an IPA without hops using spruce tips and grapefruit zest. It sounded unusual.

 

I liked psychokineses but I LOVED telekinesis. Bring that one back first!!

 

I second the motion!

 

we're starting to re-brew some of our favorites on an intermittent basis but we really enjoying writing new recipes and experimenting with new processes and ingredients so it's a balance. I can say that Tesseract, Afterimage, and Lambo will see repeats as will Double Negative variants, "super" variants, and kinesis variants.

 

Glad you guys are brewing more and more beers and pushing out bigger batches. The price seems to be going down as the supply goes up which is awesome

 

Hip hip hooray!!

 

@Grimm_Artisanal_Ales what did y'all end up brewing with Dany from Fantôme!?

 

it's an 8% beer, pale colored, containing some secrets we brought to the table and other secrets dany added. In finest fantome tradition we decided it's best not to reveal everything. The yeast was chosen by Dany. We haven't tasted it yet, but Dany has, and he described it as "cool and soft." Can't wait to try it.

 

oh man, that sounds awesome. can't wait to hopefully get my hands on it!

 

After trying a bunch of TH beers, my honest opinion is Grimm is the best brewery (brewers?) in the US right now. I will take Tesseract over Julius, Alter Ego, Curiosity 23, Juice Machine or Sap any day.

Please open your own brewery and increase production as fast as possible, but until then I will gladly continue to hunt down what I'm able to get.

 

Any idea when Lumen will be sent to the Distributors?

 

Can you explain "no boil"?

 

it's pretty simple -- we don't boil the beer. it's something we learned from historical accounts of northern european farmhouse brewing and berliner weisse. this doesn't mean that microbes from the mash survive into the finished beer however, because mash temperatures are already high enough to pasteurize. so the beers are fermented our chosen bug blends. all the super and kinesis beers are no boil.

 

We're kegging on thursday or friday so that probably means it will ship to distributors monday and be on draft at bars starting the middle of next week.

 

Thanks, I thought that's what it meant. I guess as a follow-up, or what I should have asked the first time, is what changes in the flavor profile occur if you were brew it at a boil?
If you brew a beer twice, identical ingredients, but boil one and not the other, would there be a significant difference in the final product?

 

Yes, it's different. Boiling precipitates proteins and also subtly darkens and caramelizes the wort. So you get a different appearance (lighter and hazier) with a fuller mouthfeel (from proteins). For example echoplex is in many ways a similar beer to psychokinesis but it's boiled where psychokinesis is not. Historically belgian white beers were often unboiled. So if you imagine the look of a wit, super light in color but hazy, that's what we tend to see with the no boil beers. they look like this in the glass: