That’s when I decided to act upon an old idea to use blue agave nectar in a beer. What was special or unexpected about mine? I started thinking, “What’s the hook to my beer?” Bison Brewing does a wonderful Honey Basil ale and even a Gingerbread porter. Yeah, that’s dangerous in any situation, but especially here. I brewed the organic saison up without incident, pitched the yeast, and let the beer begin to ferment. The only omission was that of my usual few ounces of acidulated malt.
I followed an old recipe that I’ve used several times and been happy with over the years. So, I placed my order with Seven Bridges Cooperative and got to work. I had been planning to do my yearly saison, since I always wait until the heat of the summer when it is easy to maintain those saison yeast fermentation temps, so that seemed like a good way to go for the competition. Not as many crayons in the box, so to say. There are just less ingredients to choose from. I had done one batch of organic beer before, the Haka American wheat beer, so I knew brewing organic was no different than what I was already doing. The winning brewer from that final round would fly out to Berkeley, CA to make their beer on the Bison system, and it will also be entered into the medal competitions at the GABF, too.Ĭut to the chase, I entered my Triple Lindy Belgian tripel, which the NBT guys seemed to like, in the first round and that got me into the final round. Those final beers would be judged by Daniel Del Grande of Bison Brewing and Dr. The bulk of this sending and brewing occurred between May and June of 2011.) Winning brewers from the first three rounds would go to a final round where they’d have to brew an original and all organic beer. (Yes, this is a very old post that I’m just getting around to posting now. New Brew Thursday and Bison Brewing joined forces months ago to hold a homebrew competition. That applies to many things in life, but even more so in brewing. The moral of this story, and I seem to be laying that down at the beginning of my blog posts lately, is that you have to know when to quit when you are ahead.
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