Friday was a good day. A more than satisfactory flavour
panel and a trip to London for The Institute of Brewing Distilling Southern
Section annual banquet would have been a cause for positivity but finding out
that my beer Cornish Pilsner had won World’s Best Lager made it very special. Being
an ale brewery with a mash tun and using whole hops should have really put us
at a disadvantage so that makes me even more pleased.
The recipe for Cornish Pilsner is a celebration of Saaz hops
and was inspired by the Monsieur Rock recipe developed by Jean-Marie Rock and
I. I’ve just sent Jean-Marie and e-mail thanking him for the inspiration. The
win comes at a very opportune time as we are just rebranding the bottled beer
and bringing the beer out in keg.
In other news, the 2013 vintage Connoisseurs’ Choice beers
have been finalised and are in production. This year’s offering is:
Single Brew Reserve with Premiant hops (A
pale ale dry hopped with Premiant at 4.5% ABV)
Honey Spice IPA (a hop forward pale ale
with Cornish honey and Malabar peppercorns at 6.5% ABV)
6 Vintage Blend (6 different cellar-aged beers from 2007-2013
blended together to make a one off beer at 8% ABV)
More details will of course follow later.