Happy New Year
We are close to that wonderful day when Barack will begin his administration. We will be waiting for the change that will come and the positive energy that will head our way. It will be a different time and one that will bring reason to hoist a brewsky to our lipsy. The beerlists will be awesome at the pubs and there is more beer to choose from than ever before. There does not seem to be a shortage of hops at this point and the number of imperial ipa's are quite amazing. However during this cold, cold, cold winter the warm winter beers have been full of flavor and full of sweetness and balanced with just the right amount of bitterness.
So bring on 2009 and let the positive energy change the way of things.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Bigtime Turns 20
We love you GG
The Bigtime Brewery on University Ave celebrated its 20th birthday last week and in Bigtime style celebrated in their understated way. It was a week of fantastic beer, reminiscing with old beer friends and realizing how little had changed. In this great hall of suds some allstar brewers have created some of the best beer in the world. Dick Cantwell, Kevin Forhan, Drew Cluey, were a few. Now Bill Jenkins calls it home . Special beers were poured and 10 year old Old Wooley made it up from the basement.
It is a labor of love at Bigtime. Hauling the grain sacks around in a very small space, utilizing the space aged conveyor belt to get kegs up from the basement and lovingly extracting bungs from those beloved Golden Gate Kegs. In this bungless-straight sided-Sankey Keg world it is refreshing to know that each key is cleaned debunged and personally filled by Bill or Chris.
It is one of the few breweries in the country that still uses the Golden Gate kegs. Employing a bung extractor a giant would use as a cork screw, each wood bung is drilled and pulled. The keg is cleaned on a flushing water pod and then made ready for that luscious ale.
We salute the Bigtime and all the great people that have worked there over the years. It is truly a Seattle Landmark.
The Bigtime Brewery on University Ave celebrated its 20th birthday last week and in Bigtime style celebrated in their understated way. It was a week of fantastic beer, reminiscing with old beer friends and realizing how little had changed. In this great hall of suds some allstar brewers have created some of the best beer in the world. Dick Cantwell, Kevin Forhan, Drew Cluey, were a few. Now Bill Jenkins calls it home . Special beers were poured and 10 year old Old Wooley made it up from the basement.
It is a labor of love at Bigtime. Hauling the grain sacks around in a very small space, utilizing the space aged conveyor belt to get kegs up from the basement and lovingly extracting bungs from those beloved Golden Gate Kegs. In this bungless-straight sided-Sankey Keg world it is refreshing to know that each key is cleaned debunged and personally filled by Bill or Chris.
It is one of the few breweries in the country that still uses the Golden Gate kegs. Employing a bung extractor a giant would use as a cork screw, each wood bung is drilled and pulled. The keg is cleaned on a flushing water pod and then made ready for that luscious ale.
We salute the Bigtime and all the great people that have worked there over the years. It is truly a Seattle Landmark.
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