Progress!

We're making progress. It's been a bit of a stressful week: two words: Cash Flow. Yawn. But things are looking up! It's all about brewing more beer, so it's all good stuff.

Yesterday Dann brewed Baby Tree, a seasonal quadrupel with dried plums (added in the brewhouse). He's very excited about it: as you can see from the photo, the wort looks pretty dark, which is exactly where we wanted it. Starting gravity is 20.6 Plato. We're using one Belgian yeast strain: our first single strain fermentation so far.

As with Jack D'Or and Saint Botolph's, we're fermenting this one in Paper City's long rectangular open fermenters. We're using it to our best benefit at that, fermenting up to 77 degrees.

Baby Tree has a bit of a story behind it, which we'll publish on the "beers" page closer to its release. It'll be out in time for Spring and Easter.

Jack D'Or 2 is in the bottle! Thank heavens. We're shipping out the kegs as we speak so hopefully you'll start seeing it in a bar near you soon. We've got a long day's labeling ahead of us tomorrow. 8 hours of hard labour, then it's straight to the diner for lots of French-Canadian food!