Jack's Abby Brewery

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  1. omniscientcause

    omniscientcause Initiate (0) Jun 4, 2010 District of Columbia

    You missed out on Kiwi...this can hold a candle to some of the VT Ipas.
     
  2. Pahn

    Pahn Initiate (0) Dec 2, 2009 New York

    there's room even in my very selective drinking for heady / lawson's / HF as well as more widely available, better malt-backboned hoponius. plus standouts like kiwi rising (which i see now i forgot to review... my notes called it the GUBNA of new zealand hop beers; all funk, not much fruit--but great), etc.
     
  3. WickedGoodBBQ

    WickedGoodBBQ Initiate (0) Mar 8, 2012 Massachusetts

    I held a growler of Framinghammer for two weeks and the carbonation was perfect. Got a growler of Ba Saxonator in the Fridge with plans to consume on super bowl Sunday. I just tighten up the cap as much as possible and keep my fingers crossed.
     
  4. Jnorton00

    Jnorton00 Initiate (0) Apr 13, 2007 Massachusetts

    Closed I assume? I was just talking about open, I rarely ever buy growlers but I was hoping for more than a day or two before it was completely flat.
     
  5. brownswisscow

    brownswisscow Initiate (0) Feb 9, 2012 Vermont

    Well consider this:
    a Lawson's IPA is ~$8/22oz
    HF is $15-18/67.6oz
    hoponious is ~$10/64oz

    Personally, as a Vermonter, I'd love having a quality, lower cost, lower ABV option like JA available in bottles.
     
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  6. WickedGoodBBQ

    WickedGoodBBQ Initiate (0) Mar 8, 2012 Massachusetts

    Right closed. When I am looking to drink the rest of a growler the next day I close tight and give it a good shake. It seems to me that releasing some carbonation into the empty space of the growler keeps it fresher. I do the same thing with 1/2 full bombers using a wine cork.
     
  7. Jnorton00

    Jnorton00 Initiate (0) Apr 13, 2007 Massachusetts

    Good tip, ill try that next time.
     
  8. geocool

    geocool Savant (1,209) Jun 21, 2006 Massachusetts

    Last year I kept a bottle of BA Framinghammer for a good 4-5 months before opening it, and it was still carbonated, not stale, and delicious. I do think the growlers and free samples from Jack's Abby's tasting room tend to be a little undercarbonated. I think they turn down the CO2 pressure to aid in doing proper growler fills, but maybe they leave it that way all afternoon or maybe even all day. And with any growler, you should drink it all the day you open it or else expect that it will get flat and stale very very quickly. All this adds up to me really preferring bottles over growlers.
     
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  9. tehzachatak

    tehzachatak Initiate (0) Sep 19, 2010 Massachusetts

    I have noticed the staying power of unopened JA growlers being very good - they CO2 purge them before they fill, which is better than a topfill, even if it's not counter-pressure. But yeah, a growler going flat after you open it is just par for the course.

    I wouldn't shake it, because once you close it, the oxygen is already there (the headspace isn't "empty", it's filled with air, which is nitrogen/oxygen/etc.), and I have no interest in getting it into solution in the beer any faster than it would have already. Releasing some CO2 into the headspace will only force O2 into the beer.

    Unless you have some way to replace the oxygen in the headspace with CO2 before you close it (if you have a CO2 tank for a home keg and a good regulator, I bet you could do your own CO2 purge of the growler headspace), it's going to oxidize pretty fast, and that's just that.
     
  10. chinabeergeek

    chinabeergeek Pooh-Bah (1,837) Aug 10, 2007 Massachusetts
    Pooh-Bah

    they bottled that stuff?
     
  11. geocool

    geocool Savant (1,209) Jun 21, 2006 Massachusetts

    D'OH, I meant growler. I did use the word "growler" four times in that post, I guess it should have been five.
     
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  12. jomobono

    jomobono Savant (1,114) Mar 12, 2012 Massachusetts

    And they announced today they are doing a collaboration with Lawson's.
     
  13. Jnorton00

    Jnorton00 Initiate (0) Apr 13, 2007 Massachusetts

    Chooo Chooo!
     
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  14. Auror

    Auror Pooh-Bah (1,641) Jan 1, 2010 Massachusetts
    Pooh-Bah

    Hoping for a killer DIPL out of the collab. Were there any other announcements? I would have bet on New Hampshire draft expansion for sure.
     
  15. geocool

    geocool Savant (1,209) Jun 21, 2006 Massachusetts

    I don't want them to expand distribution, at least until they can keep Hoponius Union on shelf in MA a majority of the time. They're in my state right now, mine, mine, mine!
     
  16. jomobono

    jomobono Savant (1,114) Mar 12, 2012 Massachusetts

    It is going to be released in May, brewed at Jack's Abby, available in Mass and Vermont. It will use lager yeast and maple syrup. That's all the info I got. They are also doing a collaboration with DC Brau for the ACBF.
     
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  17. omniscientcause

    omniscientcause Initiate (0) Jun 4, 2010 District of Columbia

    But I want a Kiwi collab...hopefully this one goes well so we can see a collab next Nov/Dec called double Kiwi

    Then I would be a really happy camper.
     
  18. dfecteau

    dfecteau Initiate (0) Jun 10, 2009 Massachusetts

    Per last nights Podcast, Jack said that as of right now, they are not going to expand distro. They are going to stay in the Mass market for right now.
     
  19. CLively

    CLively Devotee (309) Feb 8, 2011 Maine

    Everything I've had from these guys so far has been excellent.
     
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  20. Jnorton00

    Jnorton00 Initiate (0) Apr 13, 2007 Massachusetts

    Praise from Caesar!
     
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