Jack's Abby (2018)

@BRYeleJR @AirBob and others asking for updates: it ain't perfect (yet!) but this is what we hope to update each week. It requires some reading but it does let you know which beers are on our growler tap & which are in cans / bottles. This should be constant through the next few days.

We'll be out of Good N You batch 2 here at SD by Sunday, most likely. We should have enough Amirite?! and we just canned a new batch, Wait for It... New sours are in the works, too (being bottled as I type actually) but they're a few weeks of conditioning away.

We'll be tapping a cask today at 4pm (Iced Cobi - Belgian blonde on citrus and tea), and we're working on finding a barrel we like enough to tap via our Cerbeerus system.

And next week we have our first food truck, the lovely folks at Say Cheese will be paying a visit.

 

Is Wait For It different than Mr. Wallace?

 

Yes, it's brewed to session strength.

 

BTW, in tooling around the barrel room today we found a 2013 BA Coffee Framinghammer Barrel, and it's awesome, so we hooked it up to Cerbeerus and are slinging that for the weekend... don't tell big brother @JacksAbbyBrewing ...

 

Sorry I missed this until now! It is fantastic @springdalebeer and much appreciated! Noticed JA's updated their site today too. Really dig the frequent updates, thanks again.

 

Absolutely, very helpful!

Thanks Springdale/Jack's Abby!

 

Anyone else finding the newer batches (2017) of Calyptra to be even more flavorful/juicy? I'm a bit of a fanboy for this beer and a Framingham local (so be warned of bias), but it seems to be getting even better. Maybe just my tastes, but part of me is wondering about a slight recipe adjustment as well. Doubt the yeast would have much of an impact since it is a lager yeast.

This may be the most crushable beer they make, IMO. So nice to have a clean lager with a balanced juicy hop profile.

 

I assume the 4 variants mentioned here are Bourbon BA, Bourbon BA Vanilla, Bourbon BA Coffee and Bourbon BA Mole. I wonder if they'll release other variants (potentially just on draft) at the Beer Hall (eg., Brandy BA, Double Barrel, Cordon Rouge)?

 

Possibly Cocoa-Nut instead of Mole.
I'd love to see Cordon Rouge in bottles at some point. Crazy good.

 

I think the last one will be Brandy, not Mole.

Love the coffee and vanilla ones. Might try and mix the two together. Anyone else try that?

 

Or PB&J

 

Ooh yeah, forgot about that one, that's probably it. Love the PB&J one!

 

If you go to their website, under the beer section, it seems to suggest all other styles (except bourbon, coffee, vanilla, and brandy) will be brewery only.

 

They did a graham cracker variation last year as well that was pretty great. And the elusive maple barrel version that I believe only yielded a few kegs.

I'd love to see a few new takes on the beer, even if they're draft-only. Give me cinnamon vanilla or port barrel.

 

Pretty sure that's what it was last year too.

Edit: although the information on the website is probably just a holdover from last year anyway.

 

Is it just me, or do the BA Framinghammer bottles look bigger this year?

 

I was wondering this myself. They look fatter. Last year, they were 500mL and kinda skinny.