Notch Brewing (2020)

I really dig the Voll Hefe, but I think Live Oak’s is the best American one I’ve had.

But it kind of depends on what you want. Live Oak’s is a banana bomb, and I love that aspect in Hefeweizens.

 

Definitely hit up Austin for a myriad of reasons, this being one of them.

If you go also check out AGBG, apparently they make killer lagers too.

And go to Jester King simply because that whole "tap room" is gorgeous.

 

Got a four pack. It's much different than Desitka, Standard, and Tenner.

Hops are front and center on this one. I need to sit down and analyze it more, these are just my first impressions from having two cans while hanging out this weekend.

Your palate my vary, but if you're looking for something akin to the big three above, this isn't it. If you prefer a more hop forward brew, then this will be your jam.

While I do find the other three somewhat hoppy, I would never call them "hop forward", far more balance there. Really allows those sweet bready melanoidin characteristics that the dedoction mashing brings out to shine.

 

Goddammit Notch.

 

I saw that, and I HIGHLY doubt it will be that long. Summer at the latest in my opinion.

I could be wrong, but this is based on a combination of personal research and working in the industry.

We're likely to not have just one vaccine/anti viral by the summer, but multiple.

 

Yes.

AstraZeneca is locked and loaded to produce 300 million doses of the Oxford vaccine by October for the US alone (there’s 328 million people in the US). They’re also making Moderna’s. I forget the number for Moderna’s, but that’s relatively high as well. Not to mention AstraZeneca’s own vaccine which I believe has just entered Phase III trials (Monderna’s and Oxford’s is already underway).

The other biggie is Pfizer’s. The CDC is already preparing for two “mystery” vaccines...which are Moderna’s and Pfizer’s.

These companies all geared up production months ago for the vaccines so they’re ready to go as soon as the FDA grants approval.

The industry learned a lot this year about accelerating vaccine development. Corners were NOT cut, but they did discover they could overlap certain steps. Remember early on most were speculating AT LEAST two years? There’s a real possibility people in the US will get the vaccine this year.

When companies’ entire supply chains, R & D...etc. are all geared towards manufacturing one type of vaccine...well to put it frankly, shit gets done.

Manufacturing the vaccines won’t hold this back, if anything it will be how fast Phase III trials can conclude. This relies on people actually getting Covid in the real world, since injecting people with actual Covid to test the vaccine is unethical. This is because there’s no cure for the virus yet. That being said, they are exploring this option by using healthy young people, and have already obtained volunteers.