Meowzah! (Batch #1)
(Batch of Meowsonry!)
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.85
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Best Bitter Farmhouse Ale
When Jester King artist JOSH COCKRELL used to live in Seattle, he was fond of getting together with Matt and enjoying the delicious, highly drinkable beers from Machine House Brewery. Josh writes, "Matt was my best pal up there in Seattle and we spent a lot of time together drinking cask ale at Machine House, eating pizza, and hanging out with cats." Out of admiration of friendship, community, low alcohol/bitter beers (and cats), and in recognition of The Masonry's five year anniversary, we decided to brew Meowzah! -- our take on an English Best Bitter.
Meowzah! was brewed with well water, native grains from Blacklands Malt (pale and amber malt), and British hops (EKG, Progress & First Gold). It was fermented with our mixed culture of brewers yeast and native yeast and bacteria. As we've mentioned before, when we hop a beer fairly aggressively (at least in the Old World context), we get beer that presents clean and bitter. It isn't until months later that we start to see funk and acidity develop. When you think about it, this makes sense. Pure culture fermentation is a fairly modern phenomenon, and all beer used to be wild. All beer was alive and often consumed fresh before it started to naturally "spoil". We've enjoyed experimenting with bitterness and the absence of long term barrel aging to create dry, low alcohol, drinkable beers. Meowzah! follows this path.
Meowzah! is 4.6% alcohol and was 100% naturally conditioned in bottles and kegs. It was brewed in March and packaged in May of this year. For the artwork, Josh created an ode to his cat Pudding. "The artwork includes a 'maneki neko' styled version of my cat Pudding holding a pizza slice and a lucky coin with a symbol inspired by the Masonry's logo", writes Josh. Josh also created Meowzah! hats, which were hand made by an amazing company in Seattle called Ebbets. The hats will be available only at the brewery.
Meowzah! will be released this FRIDAY, AUGUST 17TH AT 4PM at Jester King by the glass and in bottles to go (~2,500 bottles, 750ml, $13, no bottle limit). It will also be available at The Masonry's five year anniversary party in Seattle on Sunday, August 19th, and should see some limited distribution beyond our tasting room. Cheers!
When Jester King artist JOSH COCKRELL used to live in Seattle, he was fond of getting together with Matt and enjoying the delicious, highly drinkable beers from Machine House Brewery. Josh writes, "Matt was my best pal up there in Seattle and we spent a lot of time together drinking cask ale at Machine House, eating pizza, and hanging out with cats." Out of admiration of friendship, community, low alcohol/bitter beers (and cats), and in recognition of The Masonry's five year anniversary, we decided to brew Meowzah! -- our take on an English Best Bitter.
Meowzah! was brewed with well water, native grains from Blacklands Malt (pale and amber malt), and British hops (EKG, Progress & First Gold). It was fermented with our mixed culture of brewers yeast and native yeast and bacteria. As we've mentioned before, when we hop a beer fairly aggressively (at least in the Old World context), we get beer that presents clean and bitter. It isn't until months later that we start to see funk and acidity develop. When you think about it, this makes sense. Pure culture fermentation is a fairly modern phenomenon, and all beer used to be wild. All beer was alive and often consumed fresh before it started to naturally "spoil". We've enjoyed experimenting with bitterness and the absence of long term barrel aging to create dry, low alcohol, drinkable beers. Meowzah! follows this path.
Meowzah! is 4.6% alcohol and was 100% naturally conditioned in bottles and kegs. It was brewed in March and packaged in May of this year. For the artwork, Josh created an ode to his cat Pudding. "The artwork includes a 'maneki neko' styled version of my cat Pudding holding a pizza slice and a lucky coin with a symbol inspired by the Masonry's logo", writes Josh. Josh also created Meowzah! hats, which were hand made by an amazing company in Seattle called Ebbets. The hats will be available only at the brewery.
Meowzah! will be released this FRIDAY, AUGUST 17TH AT 4PM at Jester King by the glass and in bottles to go (~2,500 bottles, 750ml, $13, no bottle limit). It will also be available at The Masonry's five year anniversary party in Seattle on Sunday, August 19th, and should see some limited distribution beyond our tasting room. Cheers!
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the source. Pours yellow with a white head. Funky, fruity, herbal notes, hay. Interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jul 2019
at 22:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at Jester King. Pours a cloudy orange yellow with medium white head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is strong funk, oak, ash, dark fruit. Slick body, oak, earth, bready malt, light dry finish, very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Sep 2018
at 05:23