Well! only just managed to drag myself out of bed, I think I must have drank more than my fair share of the hightial last nite, even managed to spill some over one of the goats
Although i did pick both there brains for sometime i can't really remember much of what they had to say.
Stuff that i do remember is the stout is not the standard brewhouse yeast but is wyeast irish ale. dave said he uses that simply because he gets less attenuation, i commented that there normal yeast makes a awesome stout why not just mash higher? he agreed that would work lovely. Anyway I gave him a extremely hard time over the fact he does not ever brew at home anymore.
They reptich yeast from one batch to the next and buy fresh from wyeast in the 30 litre buckets of slurry every so often. The lab at the brewery is not really used at all at the moment dave said.
If i misquote anything sorry but i was in my ussuall drunken mess,
They have 6 full time employees at least thats what i seem to remember them saying.
Brewdays they do two batches in a row to fill there new 40hl fermentor, brew length is 17hl. Dave does the first then A.G does the second. I think he said they also have a brewer by the name of hayden which i think i recall dave said is currently doing the ballarat certificate.
I questioned the seasonal varriations in the cascade they use and it seems much like my SFA they had to tame down the finishing hops with this years supply from yakima, again iam proberly extremely mis quoting everything here as i was drinking down the hightial ale like there was no tomorow.
At present it doesn't look like kegs in adelaide all the time are really on the cards but not out of the question, we can only hope.
They didn't have any merch on them for sale
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But they do have a few different shirts which looked pretty good on the box biters that were wearing them.
We rocked up a hour early and were not allowed to have any hightial ale untill 8pm, what made that worse was that we sat in front of the tap and watched the box biters pour glasses for there friends.
h34r:
I would love to go again tonite but after my interagation of the both of them last nite iam sure i would be seen as a stalker!
Iam knackerd can i go back to bed now?
Jayse