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randy_byers

Image of the Day

Nov 28, 2010 18:00

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gerisullivan November 29 2010, 02:58:14 UTC

Welcome home, and back to the electrons, too.

Me? I'm still going with the flow.

randy_byers November 29 2010, 03:07:02 UTC

I'm glad that things are still flowing for your father. Hope you've been able to relax a bit in the wake of the crisis.

mvt November 30 2010, 04:45:20 UTC

So jealous. Sometime come back to Toronto and a bunch of us will do a brewery tours. And maybe eat some good food.

randy_byers November 30 2010, 04:53:35 UTC

I definitely want to get back to Toronto again (this was my second visit), and breweries and food sound like a good agenda.

reverendjim December 2 2010, 21:13:06 UTC

Nice photo!
I think I've figured out what some of the "barrel codes" mean. On their Facebook page Cantillon have mentioned when they've been brewing and referring to them as N1, N2, etc. So I suspect they use a letter for each brewing season and then a number for each brew; meaning the M8 and M14 on those barrels mean they were from differing brews from last year.
With the L at the top as "Lambic"? Bog standard? Not sure. It's all possible.
(Oh, got the cash from Mark, ta muchly.)

randy_byers December 2 2010, 22:34:37 UTC

Having a batch code certainly makes sense. Wonder how many different batches they have going at any given time.

reverendjim December 3 2010, 00:05:44 UTC

Presumably it's mostly from the last three years, with less of the older stuff. Not sure how many brews they actually do in a "season"; every few days for a couple of months at a guess.
They did say the other day that they'd cancelled a planned brew as it was too cold. It sounds like the wild yeast doesn't like it too chilly so wouldn't "take" when they left it overnight.