Grimm in California?

oh and the "scale up" comment: usually we write the original recipe with the brewery in mind, so it's written for that particular equipment, batch size, and water source -- we only do homebrew pilots these days if we are testing an unfamiliar microbe or specialty ingredient. The scaling that does happen more often is if we're moving a beer between different partner facilities, like batch 1 tesseract was at beltway (60bbl), batch 2 was at flagship (30bbl), and batch 3 was back at beltway (90bbl).

 

Anybody open their CA distributed DN Maple yet?

 

yup, was rad

 

Nice, thanks for letting me know.

 

these maples are unfortunately turning into a game of russian roulette. seems like there's eleven rad bottles and one drain pour bottle in every case. total nightmare for us, you can imagine.

 

Damn I got two from a shop one was awesome the other I've yet to open.

 

Found a Vacay at Little Green Jug in Woodland Hills on Thursday.

 

Which is why I've heard using maple is a nightmare and why very few breweries have the balls to do it. Kudos to Grimm for putting out a solid beer. Also, everyone thinks they're a cicerone now and I would say 90% just make off flavor's up in their head.

-Cheers!

 

Drinking a BA Maple Double Negative purchased at Provisions in Orange ... This is a pretty fantastic beer when it warms up a bit.

 

drank the bottle i bought from Hacienda Bev in Brea, CA with my buddy mike and it was nothing but sour green apple. super bummed as I really wanted it to taste good!

gonna reach out to grimm now about possibly getting a refund or something..

 

Damn that sucks. I bought a bottle at K&L, I hope its good.