Front Street Brewery

When Summer time comes to Wilmington it brings many things with it.  Visits to the beach, suntans, new sunglasses, new flip flops, baseball season, scantily clad women, afternoon thunderstorms which lead to instant nap time and of course tourists.  June 21st is the actual first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but summer starts earlier here in Wilmington.  The weather is a factor of course.  It will usually start to warm up here in early April.  The other reason summer starts earlier in Wilmington is that the Kolsch is on tap as of yesterday.  It’s sort of an inside joke that summer starts with the tapping of the Kolsch.  We run the Keller Pilsner in the fall and winter and the Kolsch in the Spring and Summer.  A few of my friends and I decided that summer begins when the Kolsch is tapped and summer is officially over when the last batch runs out and the Pilsner is tapped.  So this year Summer officially started on April 13th according the to Front St. Brewery calender.  So if I kept Kolsch on year round would that mean that we would have an endless summer?  It may be worth a shot.

Also I’m going to do an experiment.  I know there’s a lot of people that are in love with our Raspberry Wheat and that’s good, but with this experiment I plan to make it even better.  I just ordered some fruit puree from Oregon and plan on trying out a batch of Raspberry with the puree.  I’ve used the puree before and had great results at other breweries so I think that our diehard Razz drinkers shouldn’t have a problem enjoying the new and improved Raspberry Wheat.  It is a slightly more expensive product than what I’m using now, but we don’t mind here at FSB.  We would rather bring you a better product since we’re that passionate about our beer.  So keep an eye out for the new Raspberry Wheat in about a month or so.  I’ll be sure to save some of the older Raspberry so some of you can compare each beer side by side and let me know what you think.  Happy Summer!!!

Cheers,

Kev