Brew Like a Monk: Trappist, Abbey, and Strong Belgian Ales and How to Brew Them by Stan Hieronymus

Author:Stan Hieronymus [Hieronymus, Stan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Technology & Engineering, Trappists - Spiritual Life, Beverages, Regional & Ethnic, Brewers - Religious Life - United States - History, Cooking, Food Science, General, United States, Brewers - Religious Life - Belgium - History, Beer, Religious Life, Methods, Brewers, Belgium, Cooking (Beer), Cookery (Beer), History, European
ISBN: 9780937381878
Publisher: Brewers Publications
Published: 2005-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

Allagash Brewing

Nobody offered Rob Tod a manual when he started to brew Belgian-inspired beers. He was left to figure out much of it on his own. “There are things that happen (in the brewery) where I can call two hundred guys for advice. With these beers there’s no one to call,” Tod said. Almost from the beginning, Tod experimented with packaging beers in 750ml bottles. “We’d change yeast, use different bottles,” he said. “We’d try one thing at a time, crowns versus corks, different amounts of yeast, a different kind of sugar.”

More than ten years after starting Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, as a one-man operation, Tod hasn’t quit exploring. “One of the things about brewing Belgian beers is the whole style encourages experimentation,” he said. “I’m excited about developing a library of beers.”

Tod worked at Otter Creek Brewing Company in Vermont in 1994, when he sampled Celis White for the first time. “People were traveling, and they’d bring back beer. Every few weeks we’d have a tasting,” Tod said. On June 30, 1994, he left Otter Creek to start Allagash Brewing. One year to the day later, he put Allagash White on tap at Portland’s venerable Great Lost Bear. It has been the bar’s top-selling beer ever since.

“I didn’t know if we’d do one beer or ten beers,” Tod said, “but I knew we’d focus on Belgian beer.” His second beer was a dubbel, at first sold only on draft. He calls it Allagash Double Ale in 12-ounce bottles, and Allagash Dubbel Reserve in 750ml bottles. Until 2004 the Reserve refermented in bottles, while the brewery force-carbonated the Double. Now both undergo refermentation, although the Reserve has 3.8 volumes of CO2 in the bottle and the Double 2.4, because the 12-ounce bottles are not rated to hold higher volumes safely.

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