JK Noble King question

You can have mine. I'll never drink it again. Same with the rest of their standard lineup to which they start adding their brett or their wild yeast (which is a strain with brett).

 

Can I ask why that is?

 

Damn! I really wish I had known this. I would have bought a bunch of bottles this past weekend. I don't know if this will get up to Fort Worth.

 

Agreed. This makes me want to try NK again. I didn't care for it the first time. If JK wants to sour everything, then I'll just have to buy everything...

 

original label..



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which batch of noble king is it? ill have to pick some up this weekend.

 

I was actually just writing a blog post on this topic. I'll post something pretty soon.

 

My latest bottle is from April and it still has the original ingredients. Do you think they had a cross-contamination issue and released it anyway with a label change? Or a decision to change the recipe?

 

ah word, nice meeting you out there. anyone else notice we bought boxers batch 5 this time around as opposed to batch 4 when AR released?

 

They released the new batch at the end of September.

 

Because I find brett...unpalatable. I really like the non-brett'd beer that JK makes/made. I don't drink their sours or funks. Or funk and sours.

I just hope this is a Noble Kind thing, and not a Black Metal/Mad Meg/Thrash Metal (whenever it shows again) thing.

 

There are a lot of strains of Brett out there maybe you just havent found the right one for you. Done Brett stains actually ferment very clean when used as a primary strain

What do you mean by "they start adding Brett or their wild yeast" to their regular line up?

 

I've have to disagree.

Noble King is one of JK's year-round beers. It did not use to have brett. Now it does. I will not buy any of their other beers to which brett is added.

 

Can a beer have a FG of 1.000? Doesn't that mean there's no more sugar in the solution?

P.S. Gonna be that guy...There are typos on the JK tasting and to-go menu for AR, OP, NK.

 

Thank you.

 

You disagree that it can be clean? Or that there are multiple strains? Because the latter is unquestionably true.

 

If you ever get the chance you should try some of Crooked Stave's offerings. Some of their beers you would be hard pressed to say that they are Brett beers or that there is Brett in them at all. But if you don't like Brett or sours then JK is probably not the brewery for you.

 

You can have a beer with a FG of 1.000. I think some Champagnes can finish below 1.000. Final gravity is the measurement of the water/remaining extract/alcohol mixture. Alcohol has gravity of less then 1 and if there is enough alcohol to offset the remaining sugar your gravity can be lower than 1.

 

Yes, and it's possible for the FG to be below 1.000. Water has a specific gravity of 1.000. Ethyl alcohol is less than 1. When you have enough alcohol plus few enough sugars, your gravity can be 1.000 or below.

 

As an example, I brewed a mead once that finished at about 15% and totally dry. FG was 0.996. (Tasty stuff, too.)