Comments on: Groveland tap’s 12 Night’s of Christmas

By: omar

omar — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:03:13 +0000

Thanks to Corey and other brewers for helping us out with the Surly cask. I was not able to make it that night. Any problems with the Surly cask was our issue, no one else’s.
Omar

By: Shove

Shove — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:27:57 +0000

“Also sounded like the Bells guys tapped the Surly cask when they were there and it sat downstairs for a couple hours like that.”
Ben, before you start lofting out accusations of someone else messing with someone else’s firkin please have your facts right. Nobody from Bell’s tapped the Surly firkin. Both breweries are promoting with the same goal in mind and that is to get everyone to enjoy craft beer. Messing with someone else’s beer would defeat that purpose. I especially am a huge fan of Surly and for you to make an accusation that we did anything to their firkin is idiotic. Get you facts straight before you post.

Corey

By: tappat

tappat — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:54:55 +0000

Yes, in the future we will be doing more of these, I don’t know about five at a time, but we will try it again. Thanks everyone for joining us, it was a blast! Special thanks to the floks from Hohenstein, Summit and Schell’s, your participation was incredible and severly needed!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:45:44 +0000

“In both cases, we got flat pints. Not real ale-flat but flat-flat. No carbonation, no effervescence…a flat glass of cool beer. It was a little disappointing.”

Surly had intended on bring there and bringing the pump from what I heard but something came up so it had to be served on gravity pour. Also sounded like the Bells guys tapped the Surly cask when they were there and it sat downstairs for a couple hours like that. I thought it was still tasty but yeah, a pump would have helped.

By: David Berg

David Berg — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:40:08 +0000

“Did you get any sense that the Tap is looking to do cask ale on a more regular basis?”

I don’t know. Perhaps someone from there will chime in.

“pils was a double-hopped something”

Dry hopped maybe? Sorry, just guessing.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:53:47 +0000

Oh, and I swear a host or waitress accidentally told me that the pils was a double-hopped something. Didn’t exactly sound like you.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:49:34 +0000

I sold your Fass for scrap. Thanks!

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:22 +0000

David -

Did you get any sense that the Tap is looking to do cask ale on a more regular basis?

By: David Berg

David Berg — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:21:07 +0000

Thanks to everyone for coming out last night. I had some trepidations bringing a kellerbier to a Winter beer tasting, but it went over better than I expected. Fun to see everyone I knew, and unlike Ryan, I met Ben! Now if I can figure out how to get my Fass back…

A big thanks to the folks at the Groveland Tap for including us in the event. The staff did a great job of getting the beer out for people to try.

Happy Holidays all!

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:05:14 +0000

Wish I had gotten more of the Summit. We expected great things of the Bell’s and the Surly – Bender is a favorite of ours and the Bell’s Double Cream Stout is normally phenomenal.

In both cases, we got flat pints. Not real ale-flat but flat-flat. No carbonation, no effervescence…a flat glass of cool beer. It was a little disappointing.

The Big Sky Winter was tremendous, though…good winter pint with a dry finish. Proper carbonation and very easy to sip.

My wife _did_ bring up the fact that cask ale was a new enough phenomenon in Minnesota that maybe they just didn’t know how to pour a proper pint.

I’m curious if anyone else had this experience.