Monday, Labor Day 2014 we are set to embark on yet another new adventure at Maize Valley. If you enjoy Craft Beer please come and join us for our Grand Opening of Maize Valley Craft Brewery. But WAIT there is more!
We will be tapping a Cask of Stout too! What does that mean, I asked Jake our Brewmaster and here is a description:
Cask Beer is a traditional method of conditioning and carbonating ale before the advent of pressurized forced carbonation.
After primary fermentation, ale is transformed to it’s serving vessel with the addition of priming sugar or unfermented sweet wort. The residual yeast still suspended in the beer eats the sugar and CO2 stays in the beer solution.
Casks were traditionally kept in tavern cellars to keep the cool and pumped up to the bar with a beer engine. Cask Beer is a living beer that changes over time.
It takes a skilled cellarman to ensure the quality of the ale at time of serving. If done right, it should produce an ale that has a creamy head and soft carbonation.
Above are our “Itty-Bitty” carbonation tanks. Starting out we are not even a Micro-Brewery but rather what they call a Nano-Brewery. But that is okay we want to learn how to crawl and then see how the walking goes.