Sixpoint Spontaneous Construction Ale: a ‘blind’ beer for local Jazz community (video)
No, Sixpoint Craft Ales has not brewed a beer for the blind, rather it brewed a beer blind in which each brewer added an ingredient not knowing what other brewers were adding. The filmmakers claim the beer to be delicious. If true that brewers made this thing virtually blind, that is nothing short of a miracle )unless the brewers added only safe ingredients?). The idea behind the project was to create the first beer for the Improvisation and Jazz community.
There is a balance between the art of storytelling and the science of beermaking. Do brewers ever push the envelope too far?
Breweries: Sixpoint
As a homebrewer, I refuse to believe they made a full scale batch “blind” without some inherent parameters built in. More over they would need nose plugs more than to be blind as seemingly most ingredients are going to kick off an noticeable aroma during the boiling process which creates high volatility.
Love the sentiment, but Jazz is not about total utter randomness, it is about bending the structure but still within in the confines of music. So to be complimentary as a beer project, they simply needed to improvise with only what they had on hand and agree to how to blend it.
There is my random nitpick of the day 😉
I think I like your version better, Patrick. It’s possible (probable?) that was the case here and maybe the filmmakers just dumbed it down for the viewer.
Blind beer does sound better than Nose Plug beer though!
Maybe they did make a full scale batch without any parameters. If you are a homebrewer just remember RDWHAHB, maybe that’s the way they looked at it.
Does RDWHAHB translate to throw all your knowledge out the window and throw stuff in a kettle? 😉
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