Sometimes innovation comes at a price, I guess: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/world/americas/aging-beer-sunken.html Anybody know of anyone else aging beers underwater, at least on purpose?
“If they stole it for their own consumption, they’re going to have to throw it away,” said Mr. Vincent. “It was a lukewarm, gasless liquor that would be very difficult to drink.” "I was planning to put the barrels in my cooler and dispense through gas", said whoever reasonably did this.
Part of me feels bad for these brewers. Part of me wants to say to them, "this barrel aging, I am not so sure it means what you think it means".
Well Mr. Whoever must have a good sized cooler to accommodate a 50+ gallon wood barrel but I suppose where there is a will there is a way. Salud!
Sure. NCJOHB, Papazian, He details his method of temperature control in a swimming pool. Puts the carboy in the deep end and the airlock is attached with a long hose. Rather ingenious.
Bill, When I first started reading the article my initial thought was temperature (i.e., a continuous, steady temperature for barrel aging) but as I got further into the article: “Previous experiments had involved shallower depths, so they wanted to test beers made under greater pressure.” Do you have any ideas here as regards the influences that greater hydrostatic pressure would have on aging beer in wood barrels? Cheers!
Yeah. My idea. If you want to ferment under pressure apply argon or nitrogen at the desired pressure and voila. Not exactly sure how the outside pressure on the barrel has much effect on the inside pressure on the liquid. It's not like the inside of a submarine is a high pressure environment. That's the point of a submarine right? This is just some stupid shit.
This Brewery Ages Beer Underwater in the Adriatic Sea Kenora (Canada) based brewery aging beer under Lake of the Woods ice
Me neither, I figured I would ask. Well, a submarine is made out of thick metal and is pressurized commensurate with permitting the sailors to live. A wooden barrel may 'behave' differently from a submarine. Cheers!
I think we can all agree that the real victims here are all the reasonable beer consumers who were subjected to this ridiculous gimmick, amiright?!?!
