Happy New Year to everyone from the folks at Natsmile Ales!
Helping us celebrate the new year and our first-ever Maple Porter is the Porter Elementary School's Porter Panther. Looks like a great bottle label to us!
At 9.2%, this porter packs a wallop but the big Maple flavor is very deceptive. This is definitely a one-and-done pint. It's got over 3 gallons of the sweet stuff per barrel, which was added during every stage of fermentation to really weave the maple into the beer.
There's a wee amount of the last of our fall beers on tap with Pumpkin Pie Wheat and the inaugural hard cider is sticking around too.
Juniper Red will be back on tap very shortly. We've split the batch and kept half as a regular Irish Red in case Berries N' Beer isn't your thing.
Coming up in just a little while is another split batch. This time it's an American Stout brewed with Simcoe and Centennial hops. Half is going to be left alone, but the other half is getting infused with dark Espresso Roast coffee to create a Java Stout. (You're welcome, Dusty.) Look for our stouts in mid January.
Up next is a super hoppy and spicy Rye IPA. Rye adds a big spicy, black pepper kick to the beer and when you hop it with a variety of hop known as Magnum, well, say goodbye to your taste buds for a few weeks.
Ben's going to be a daddy real soon, so updates may not be as frequent for a little while (not that they are right now) but it shouldn't affect the output of beer, especially with Kevin coming into his own as Assistant Head Brewer at Natsmile. We'll see what kind of beers he comes up with throughout the year. Cheers to the New Year's!
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