2021 Coolship

2021 Coolship - 4.5% We excited to release our second vintage of our coolship collaboration with @DeerCreekMalt. We’ve used all Deer Creek malt and grain in all our saisons for some time now, but a couple years ago Mark suggested we try brewing a batch to cool overnight in Deer Creek’s mobile coolship. Typically, the hot sugary wort from the brewing process is rapidly cooled and kept sanitary to be fermented in fairly controlled conditions with a single culture of yeast. Historically, and presently in traditional lambic breweries and other coolship enthusiasts, the hot wort would have been cooled overnight in the open  shallow vessel called the coolship. In most cases this will expose the liquid to the many organisms present in the night air, which may influence the fermentation of the beer, suffusing it with that microbial terroir  we love to talk about. This is anything but controlled or sanitary, but provides the conditions for some wonderful microbial magic to take place. In the wi