KSB/Fantasy Football Correlation

posted by Jon

In a recent study done by a person, results have shown that drinking Knoll Street Brewery's beer increases fantasy football performance. The study cites a fantasy football league known as "In a Minute Honey" in which four of the ten league managers happened to be part of a Knoll Street Brewery sponsored "beer club". These four managers were the last four remaining in the fantasy playoffs. As news of this correlation has spread, fantasy football players everywhere are pulling whatever strings possible in hopes of joining the KSB beer club. Representatives of Knoll Street Brewery have declined to comment.

December and January brews

posted by Jon

The December brewing will be done on Sunday, December 19. We will be joined by our Hungarian beer club members. As originally planned, we will be brewing a smoked porter.

You may recall the post about the Von Bora Belgian Strong that was done as a side batch. Our January brew will be piggybacked with that side batch. I purchased a special yeast for that batch, White Labs' WLP545. It is a strain of yeast that is only released for a couple of months every year. It is a great yeast for Abbey Ales and Belgian Strong Ales. I am planning on keeping the Von Bora in the primary fermenter until January. Our January brew, a Belgian Blonde Ale, will be pitched directly onto the yeast cake left over from the Von Bora, meaning we don't have to buy any extra yeast and I don't need to do a yeast starter.

Food pairings

posted by Jon

When pairing foods with beer, it's often smart to pair foods with a lot of flavor with a beer that can hold its own, flavor-wise.

An example: When eating Buffalo wings tossed in homemade habanero sauce and served with homemade gorgonzola dressing, why not try it with a Sinister black IPA from Knoll Street Brewing?

December Update

posted by Jon

Delivery time!

In the next few days you will all be receiving a six-pack of Gourdon, our imperial pumpkin ale. We've been told that it's better than Ichabod and we agree. The cider is also ready. I'm assuming that all of you will want a sixer of the cider as well. The cider is literally the best cider I've ever had. If you don't want a cider, let me know (after that glowing endorsement, how could you say "no"?). The cider is $6.00 for the six-pack. Be careful with this stuff. I never did a gravity check, but it tastes/feels more like a wine than most ciders I've had.

There are a few expectations that we have. We have a very limited supply of bottles and the six-pack holders. When you are finished with a beer, please rinse the bottle out well and return it to us. We're not your mom who cleans up after you. We don't feel it's too much to ask that you make sure it's rinsed out well. If you decide to savor your beer a bit and not drink all of it in a month, please fill out your empty six-pack with bottles of your own. We can only use pry off bottles (no twist-off) and we'd prefer the taller brown bottles (New Holland, Bells, Shorts, etc). The short squat bottles that Founders, Abita and some Belgian breweries sometimes use don't fit in the six pack holder.

The Intruder (November's brew) has been racked off to the secondary, where it is sitting on 6 vanilla beans, 2 oz of light toast oak chips and 2 oz Maker's Mark bourbon. Hopefully it will be bottled soon.

The beer for December will be a smoked porter and will be brewed in a couple of weeks. It has not been named.