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Beervestigation in eastern europe

Submitted by BBB on Sat, 09/28/2013 - 15:58

Dear colleagues,

BBB CEO and Brewmistress have been extensively investigating the underground brewing scene in Budapest for the last couple of months, and are ready to report some preliminary data. First of all, eastern europeans have much to learn of microbrewing, especially regarding wheat beer production, which are mostly disgusting. Overall though, the quality is decent, but our judgement might be slightly biased due to the ridiculously low prices. Happy hour, 1 liter of lager for around 2 euros. Crazy shit.

BBB becomes BBBB

Submitted by BBB on Sun, 02/24/2013 - 21:27

Dear guild members,

This is an official pressrelease to inform the members of the guild that the headquarters of BBB is moving in June, thereby becoming BBB Budapest (BBBB).

Initally BBBB will focus on exploring the beer market in the city, so that the rest of guild members can get an extraordinary beer experience when visiting. Tál!

Cheers,

BBB

STRONZO!

Submitted by BBB on Fri, 08/31/2012 - 13:42

I'm sure that only Carlo will find this funny, but it's worth posting anyway. A local CPH microbrewery happily decided to call itself Stronzo, which in italian means something like a*hole. 

http://stronzo.dk/

Cheers Stronzi!
Marco

Some more Teaspoon Brewpub research

Submitted by BBB on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 20:41

Dear members,

I have conducted some more research on the long-discussed Teaspoon Brewpub project, and finally found some prices for brewing equipment. It turns out I was a little far off with my predictions, with a 500 liters per brew, 100.000 liters per year brewhouse, fermenters etc. costing around 200.000 EUR. This is the link where I found prices:

http://www.brauhaus-austria.com/pricelist_online.htm

Viva le brew mistresses

Submitted by BBB on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 21:21

Dear members of the guild,

It seems that the breweries of the guild are producing high quality beer, I'm really pleased. However, I'm sure this phenomenon wouldn't be possible without the brew mistresses. A brewer's invaluable assistant to create those tasty beers. I don't think that the brew mistresses in the guild get enough credit for the work we do. We are irreplaceable with our female intuition and multitasking abilities!

New Year's Brewing Advancements

Submitted by BBB on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:35

Members of the Guild,

here at BBB we commenced the new year in the best way we know, brewing. We employed a couple of technical advancements to avoid common problems as stuck spargiamente and broken backs.

Sad news...

Submitted by BBB on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 17:58

... for the users of the Guild's biobank (which actually only include us). Our precious strains are pretty much dead. We tried to reculture several vials lately and with most disappointment found out that nothing is growing, not even trying. I think the availability of live cells in there is just too little, and the thawing process kills them off. Brewmistress Litsa says that they probably have been there for too long, as they worked before.
BBB will try to replenish supplies.

Marco & Litsa
BBB

Grand Chimay Clone

Submitted by BBB on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 18:49

Dear colleagues,

the BBB is proud to announce that another brew is under fermentation. Since the previous great success raised by our signature Duvel Clone, we are thinking to specialize in Belgian Strong Ales, and therefore attempted to clone the Chimay Blue, CEO's second ever favourite beer.

As said, fermentation is underway, with the airock relentlessly bubbling besides me as I write. The recipe can be found in the appropriate page. The plan is to have one week primary, 5 weeks secondary and 6 weeks in the bottle.

Cheers!

Marco, CEO, BBB

Success!!!

Submitted by BBB on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:05

Dear colleagues,
it is my pleasure to inform that the experiment on the Duvel clone was a success. The first quality control happened yesterday evening, after approximately 4 weeks of secondary fermentation, and the report is extraordinary. The taste is extremely similar to the original, with the only difference being the slightly darker color. I am very impressed.

If any member of the Guild wants to replicate the recipe, I would suggest to increase the wheat malt and decrease pilsner, and add the recultured Duvel yeast for conditioning. That should make the perfect clone.

BBB's Duvel clone

Submitted by BBB on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 11:35

So, we finally brewed a Duvel clone last weekend. Recipe was pretty simple and will be posted online soon.
As primary fermentation we used the 1388 Belgian Strong Ale yeast, and I was originally planning to leave it for 2 weeks, but bubbling already stopped on day 3 (probably because of the too high room temperature) so I'm reconsidering. Forums online suggest to add sugar to the secondary, and then again for priming using also recultured yeast from a bottle for conditioning. We'll see, but in all honesty I'm not that confident this time.

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