Front Street Brewery

The pace is starting to pick up tremendously around the brewery lately.  We’re flying through batches of Scottish, Raspberry Wheat and Lager.  Ahhhhhh………the fun has begun.  More and more tourists are starting to show up around the brewery.  Summer is close.  We love it.

Some new beers will be showing up fairly soon.  It’s almost Kolsch time!!!  The Pilsner is going to be gone very soon.  Kolsch is one of my favorite styles of beer.  It’s light, thirst quenching and perfect for summertime.  It’s a tough beer to execute the right way.  Light, a very small touch of the hops,  some fruity aroma’s from the yeast strain yeast, backed up with a nice clean crispness.  I’m excited and I hope you are too.  Altbier will be showing up soon, which is Kolsch’s Amber colored cousin.  The same yeast strain is used.  Kolsch orginates from Cologne, Germany and Altbier comes from Dusseldorf, Germany.  Both are great styles of beer.  I also have a Dark Mild in the works as well as an Organic Hefeweizen.  The Organic Hefe will be around all summer. 

All the Jim Beam barrels are slumbering away downstairs with beer in them.  I put the finishing touches on one barrel today, by adding 30 lbs. of Red Raspberries to the Spring Brew.  That’s all she wrote for them.  Now we just sit back, let them age and wait for October to roll around when Fred Noe will be joining us for a Bourbon and Beer dinner.  For those of you who don’t know about Fred Noe I suggest you look at a bottle of Jim Beam next time you’re around one.  His picture is on the side of it.  He is in fact the head distiller and I’m very excited to meet him and spend some time with him.  Apparently it’ll be his first time in Wilmington.  The dinner is scheduled for October 14th.  Keep checking back for details. 

Cheers,

           Kevin