Official Unfiltered Brewing Info Thread

[chalmers]

Thanks for the offer...I'm at the hospital then heading to Burnside. ..I'll just grab a small bottle from nash

Too late! Good to see you, and KennyG and the monochromegod. Nash must have been napping in the back. Lazy bastard.

Or out delivering kegs and having lunch!!

Or that too...

[NASH]

Stopped in yesterday to fill my growlers and got the DOA and Berliner Weisse. Saving DOA for tonight and man the Berliner Weisse was great. I was late getting to try it and was it ever tart at first but grew on me with each sip. Loved that is was dry hopped. Keep up the great work Mr. Nash!

Thanks man! Hope the DOA worked out favourably for you too

[NASH]

Had the exile on north street tonight and holy shit is it ever fucking awesome. Whatever has changed since the growler I got around the opening has made a huge difference. The fruitless of the hops comes through loud and clear. The bitterness is nice and clean. Doesn't taste like chlorophyll like some IPAs do. It's sweet but it is dry at the same time. Really pleasant beer. It's everything you want in an IPA. Thanks.

Brilliant, thanks for the kudos and glad you're digging on it

[Woody]

DOA was signature Nash. Loved it! Couldn't believe it was SMaSH!!

[jacinthebox]

Doa was awesome...maybe nash will get drunk some day and pm me his recipe and techniques lol

[Brewnoser]

Look up melanoidin rest for a start.


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[GuingesRock]

Look up melanoidin rest for a start.


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Melanoidin seems to be a common factor in tasty beers. I always used a lot of high melanoidin malt in my beers, not because I knew what I was doing, but because I discovered those were the malts I liked and I stuck with them. Jared Carelburg (BOTY king) does a lot of decoction mashing.

[Brewnoser]

But there is such a thing as a melanoidin rest. No need for the specialty malt.


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[NASH]

Doa was awesome...maybe nash will get drunk some day and pm me his recipe and techniques lol

My technique for brewing SMaSH brews has been documented before. As for the recipe.....

DOA was signature Nash. Loved it! Couldn't believe it was SMaSH!!

Thanks, gents

[Brewnoser]

First you need to have your boiler fail...


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[GuingesRock]

But there is such a thing as a melanoidin rest. No need for the specialty malt.


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I'm interested in this. Haven't had a chance to look up melanoidin rest yet, but will. My thought is why not let the maltsters do the work? Munich 11 (my favorite one which I put in almost everything), isn't expensive. I'm talking about small scale brewing here, large scale it probably makes more sense. I dabbled with small quantities of melanoidin malt as well, but wasn't over impressed. I think the idea of decoction mashing is to produce melanoidins (correct me if wrong), but again I'd rather let the maltsters do the work than go through all that?

[Brewnoser]

I think that's all a good question. And one that I have discussed in brief with Greg but also one he's thought about more that I.

First it allows a "SMASH" to have nuances other don't.

Second it's the whole thing being altered in a slow organic process. It has a sort of momentum that an addition of a smaller portion of modified malt cannot simulate, perhaps.

And third, and perhaps most importantly in this context, it's his. Happened upon by accident perhaps, but diagnosed and replicated by Nash. And thus a signature of sorts. And for that I say more power to him. I for one am happy to see success relate to intelligence rather than the wealth of one's parents. Like almost everyone in Atlantic Canada who is well off.


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[GuingesRock]

I think that's all a good question. And one that I have discussed in brief with Greg but also one he's thought about more that I.

First it allows a "SMASH" to have nuances other don't.

Second it's the whole thing being altered in a slow organic process. It has a sort of momentum that an addition of a smaller portion of modified malt cannot simulate, perhaps.

And third, and perhaps most importantly in this context, it's his. Happened upon by accident perhaps, but diagnosed and replicated by Nash. And thus a signature of sorts. And for that I say more power to him. I for one am happy to see success relate to intelligence rather than the wealth of one's parents. Like almost everyone in Atlantic Canada who is well off.


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Interesting about the malt and the new process. That kind of innovation is what brewing is about.

My parents were very poor. I was bought up in a small cottage made of mud and horsehair (they call that cob) in Cornwall, UK, with no electricity, no car, lived off the land and the sea, subsidised by my mother's part time waitressing job. My parents chose to live that life. I think my childhood was very rich though, and I learnt many practical skills, innovation, confidence that I could achieve etc. There are many forms of wealth other than money, and money could be the least desirable form.

There's an old saying in England ..."from clog to clog in three generations" meaning wealthy parents often produce poor children who then produce successful (wealthy children). Probably not so true these days but it's a saying from the old days. Come to think of it, a lot of modern-day children of the wealthy aren't often that productive though.

[Brewnoser]

Ahahah. I think I see a theme happening here.


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[NASH]

Dat fresh-hopped IRA brewed with 270kg of locally grown Centennial hop flowers from the Maritime Hop Growers Cooperative hits the taps tomorrow, peeps!

Hop Riot IRA (India Red Ale)
~ 7.3% ABV
~ 19 SRM

#freshasfuckdotca

[GAM]

Delicious!!!

Another Growler Please!

S

[NASH]

Delicious!!!

Another Growler Please!

S

That's right!

Thanks!!

[NASH]

@sleepyjamie trying out for assssistant brewer position!!

[GAM]

He's not on his knees!!

S

[CorneliusAlphonse]

hahahahahahhahs

[Brewnoser]

that's approximately correct


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[chicanuck]

Trying the Riot this afternoon, fucking deadly beer....another home run.



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[NASH]

Trying the Riot this afternoon, fucking deadly beer....another home run.



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Thanks, fucker!!!

[TimG]

@sleepyjamie trying out for assssistant brewer position!!

I brew with this fucker all the time.. I can tell you some stories

[Buccaneer]

The riot is excellent. Needs more hops, though.

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