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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Huge news from the Brewery!!!


Natsmile Ales has converted from a bottling-only operation to a kegging facility. The first two beers, a Rye IPA and an Anchor Steam Clone are on tap right now with more to come as soon as we get settled into our new brewery space located at 4308 King Edward Court in Greensboro. The new facility will be a residence with a brewery/bar on the second floor. This makes for a more streamlined operation (and a much happier wife who will finally be able to reclaim the kitchen for food preparation instead of plumbing for the brewery)

Pictures of the new facility will be up around mid-December and tours available around that time as well.

Currently we have the two aforementioned beers on tap as well as a wide variety of bottled offerings including a sweet stout, two different brown ales, a pumpkin ale, some recently discovered Juniper Ale, and a few other things. With the moving date looming, we may just be a bit more willing to give away copiuos amounts of beer rather than having to haul it all across town.

The next brews will be another Batch of Ken's Pale Ale with a different hop variety (don't even get me started on the hops crisis) and probably another porter of some sort. More taps are coming soon to the brewry, so we must fill the lines with multitudes of barley pop as soon as possible!!




Saturday, November 03, 2007

Big Update for Natsmile Ales


Whew. A lot has been happening at the brewery since I last logged in. Right now we have a Bell's Best Brown clone and something we call 'Little Brother Brown', which was created from the second runnings of the Bell's clone. We added a bit of brown sugar to kick it up and it turned into a great session brown ale. The first All-Grain, Ken's Pale Ale, is almost gone, and the Pumpkin Ale was a big hit as well.

Just today we created an Anchor Steam clone, bottled a Sweet Stout, and moved a Rye Pale Ale to the secondary fermenter. We also tapped the first bottle of Bourbon Barrel Old Ale, brewed in February, and it was coming along nicely. Another two months in the bottle and it should be real nice. At 9.58% ABV, it's no joke.

Next week we're going to brew a Chocolate Raspberry Stout for the Christmas Season. Cheers!

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