Bluejacket, new DC brewery, will feature one of country’s only coolships
Engert emphasizes that barrel-aged sour beers — much like Belgium’s tangy lambic beers — will be a major focus at the brewery, which is installing an old-school coolship, a large shallow pan used to cool unfermented beer and expose it to ambient wild yeasts and bacteria. (Undesirable in most brewing settings, these microbes produce sour beer’s characteristic funk.) Non-sour beers will also be aged in barrels formerly used to store bourbon, rum and “crazy stuff” that isn’t the norm at most breweries, like gin, or barrels made from unusual kinds of wood.
Former Lead Brewer at Cambridge Brewing, Megan Parisi, will head up the new 15-barrel operation next to Nationals Park.
via The Washington Post.
Breweries: Bluejacket
Not one of the only, there are other brewers that use coolships in the US, Including Ommegang Brewery in upstate NY.
Keep the vents from the player’s locker room closed! Although you’d have a new style called Super Funk!
Out of nearly 2,000 breweries, I can think of less than 10. That, to me, is “one of the only.”
Name off the ones you know.
I’m also curious as to how many US breweries have them. I know of Allagash, Hill Farmstead, Russian River, and Jester King (sorta). We’re planning to build our brewhouse this spring, and I’m really tempted to plan one above the top floor of our barn (we’re in the planning and fundraising stages of a farmhouse brewery to open later this year in NC… shameless plug… called Haw River Farmhouse Ales), even if we just build the framework for one and actually get it installed and usable down the road.
What are the others you know of, Adam?
Jolly Pumpkin uses an open fermenter as a coolship but I’m not sure that it’s technically a coolship. Peekskill is installing one but won’t use it for sour beers.