Allagash Brewing's First Traditional Spontaneous Brew

Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine has built a cool ship for spontaneously fermenting beer. This is a traditional method for brewign in Belgium. This is the inaugural use of the cool ship. You can see that the beer is coming from inside the brewery. At this point it has just been filtered in our whirlpool. the beer passes through the sieve so that there are no pieces of spice or hops in the cool ship. The beer will sit in the cool ship overnight, allowing the beer to cool. When the temperature is right ambient yeast will begin to ferment the beer, in this way it is spontaneously fermented.

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Howto & Style

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• Allagash
• Brewing
• Beer
• Cool
• Ship
• Portland
• Maine
• Drink
• Belgian
• Belgium
• Lambic
• Spontaneous
• Fermentation

[monkchunks]

Toad turned the wort into wart

[davidmanning]

That's Toad, all right, with his standard lobotomized look no less. Hope he didn't infect the beer further.

[pillowtoast]

Is that one of the Alstrom Bros from BeerAdvocate?

[MadLuplin]

You guys are BRAVE that is for sure.

[bmjezekiel]

This is awesome. Allagash is such a solid and innovative brewery all at once.

I can't wait to see how this works out for them.

[bmjezekiel]

More like 2010

[brewshop]

We'll be there at the Brewery in Aug of 08...Save us some !!!

[Donny4793]

Thick mash. Man that looks like concrete! Great to see Allagash making the oldest beer syle in the world and my favorite.

[mlagueux]

nice!!  can't wait to try this eventually... wonder how long it will take...

[mattflahertyguitar]

allagash is my favorite brewery by far, and I live in Colorado!