DuClaw Brewing Company

This Friday at 5pm the 26th, simultaneously at all three stores, Cinnamon Vanilla Sawtooth will be tapped on Firkin by a vicious blow from a mallet. The last time I had Sawtooth in a firkin was at our Real Ale Fest last year. And let me tell you, it was delicious. So I am extremely anxious to try Sawtooth again on firkin.

For those of you who do not know, a firkin is a vessel for cask conditioned ale. What is cask conditioned ale you ask?  Well, click here for a pretty decent wikipedia write up about it. But, basically it is ale that has very little CO2 in it compared to standard beers produced today. This resulting lack of CO2 leads to a completely different flavor and mouthfeel profile. Basically, a whole new beer. A whole new, extremely tasty, amazingly awesome beer!!

We will have Firkin Friday once a month at every store.  In the past, we had it at a different store every Friday. But, now we are doing it at every store on the same day and same time.

The extra kicker on this Firkin Friday is that our Mills store will also be receiving a firkin of our Inaugural batch of the eXile Series. I blogged a while back about the series. But just to recap, our eXile series are small, experimental batches of beer, allowing us to explore our creativity a little more. Plain and simple, we want to really flex our brew muscles. The first batch is going to be an Imperial Chocolate Rye Porter, which I have had the pleasure of sampling.

What is going to be in the firkin is even more interesting. We took all small amount of the batch and infused it with peppermint, then casked it up. So we now will have the longest name beer in DuClaw history on cask that night:  Peppermint Infused Imperial Chocolate Rye Porter. The question is, will it taste like a 7.8% liquid Peppermint Patty?

When will the eXile cask go on tap? When the first one kicks. So drink people…drink like you have a mission.