Coolship brew at a 230 year old brewery | The Craft Beer Channel
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2023
- This week Jonny heads to the historic ELgoods brewery with Crossover, a lambic-inspired blendery that brews its beers using Elgood's century-old equipment and site. Hear how these incredible beers are made, about the history of both breweries, and get a rare sight of a huge coolship being brewed.
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It broke my heart listening the Friday podcast when Brad said "you could have Owen on instead of me" ... as if he thinks he's someone Jonny "has on"... let Brad know he's an equal and we all love him !!!!
I shall ensure he sees this comment. Might even read it out in this week's pod.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Yes, please do ❤❤
I been around since the drinks tube days. I allways thought of this as the Brad and Jonny channel. I still call that beer batter onion ring and candied bacon burger a " Brad sandwich."
@Rusty Shackelford thanks for sticking with us! It always has and always with be the J&B show but the pod in particular is Brad's!
I could never replace Brad, never!
The slo-mo of that first sprayer coughing to life was a magical shot. You not only tell the story of beer, but you guys also make it beautiful. Keep it up!
What a place! I think I'd rather take a tour of a historic brewery like Elgoods, than some of the more modern craft breweries. Really great to see people keeping traditional places going.
I'm right there with you Adam, can you just imagine the aroma standing there in that fog?!!!
Great documentary of a ‘lost’ process. I do always appreciate when the interviewer allows the subject of the interview to fully express their thoughts and finish their sentence. After all, they are the ‘star’, not the interviewer.
17:20 Yes, yes you could. And should have! Allan is such a nice gentleman and cudos to him for learning something as new as brewing sours. The world needs more sours!!
And that place takes me back to when I visited Cantillon. The resemblance is there.
This is perfect timing. Sours feel best suited to spring and summer.
But I'll happily imbibe a sour year round! Especially spontaneously fermented
This style of beer never ceases to amaze me. I have had many of these wonderful farmhousey, slightly sour, wonderful beers in my time, I wish more places were making them. Elgoods bitter looked absolutely fantastic as well!
Both the beers in this video were amazing. So different, but both so beautiful and profoundly British!
I loved this video. Well produced. Thank you for this rare peek at an old brewing style
Great video guys ,when these old breweries are on the brink of becoming nothing, every old brewery should be be listed it’s our history!
Hi from Georgia in the USA. Excellent content gentlemen. Made me feel like I was there in person. The cask beer discussion reminded me, we have a brewpub here in the Atlanta metro area, Good Word Brewing, that just achieved the Cask Marque certification. I started drinking their cask offerings last year and have really enjoyed them. I expected a flat lifeless beer and instead found a tasty unique beer.I went back and rewatched your Keep Cask Alive documentary and had more appreciation for the method. Thanks for the excellent work!
A native Georgian here. Thanks for the tip about Good Word. Not a brewery I recognize. But I'm dying to try anything on cask. Appreciated.
@@treyokelly9662 Good Word Brewing is in Duluth. Also, Brick Store Pub in Decatur has cask ale. It is also Cask Marque certified. Hope you get to try both soon.
@@ATL-xi7lo thanks! I'm about an hour and a half ish from Atlanta but I do pressure washing around Stone Mountain and Druid Hills and places around there. I'll have to check them out
I had a bottle of Crossover’s Mound Ida last August. Sitting in the garden on a warm day, drinking this with a good book was an outstanding experience!
I swear your content gets better and better every time! Love these documentary style videos and I also have a big fascination with this style of beer! Keep up the great work guys! The highlight to my Wednesday!
WOW ! That’s some proper effort and patients getting to the end product. Super super interesting cheers 👍🍻
Those coolship shots were so beautiful ❤️ great video as always.
True that - I nearly cried when the pipes came to life in the cool ship! A semi-spiritual experience - wish I could have been there to take it all in. Wow
The visuals in this episodes are stunning. Awesome work, thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much! It kinda shot itself - such a gorgeous place and process.
Pretty majestic video lads... hell yes!
Great video as always. Crossover are local to me and it's exciting to see Charlie and George doing well. The beers are really top draw in my opinion. Nice place to visit when the Blendery is open at weekends too.
Fascinating to see Elgoods Brewery too. Their beers are a popular guest beer in The Pig and Abbot pub where I work. ❤&🍺
Just listening to the Friday podcast.
You guys should add Three Tuns brewery in Bishops Castle to your historic brewery list. A proper tower brewery, still working.
excited for this beer to come to the US!
Love the video, a great example of how Modern craft can co-exist with the wealth of history of brewing this country has.
Looking at the foam, the Brett focus is visible. Awesome. Most sour beers tend to get tooooo sour nowadays
Without complexity of flavors - very one note.
Got a Crossover box from Brewser and was impressed. Really like Wilderness Brewery beers too.
18:42 I don't ever want to here anyone in the homebrew forums complain or even mention hot side aeration again after watching the wort get pumped into that coolship!
17:36 breaks my heart to no end to keep hearing about British breweries shutting their doors for good. There is no beer in the world that tastes better than a proper pint of cask conditioned English bitter. Sadly, living in the US cask is a hard to find novelty. Coopersmith's pub and brewing has 2 beer engines and they are the closest being 45 minutes away. The few times I had a chance to drink Timothy Taylor's Landlord on cask in the UK was like sipping on heaven. That beer is what sets the standard every time I find a brewery in the states with an English style bitter on tap. It's also the beer I am constantly chasing in my own home brewery but cant quite get right.
Drinking beer and touring niche historical sites. My two favorite things, and in no particular order.
This is real craft brewing and a stunningly visual storytelling. Craftsmen / women applying their trade, is a pleasure to behold. I would love to try the fruits of their labour. These beautiful breweries are a national treasure and must be preserved at all costs. Love the channel, hope Brad works out whatever is troubling him recently and returns with full gusto. Jonny is a wonderful conductor, but nothing without the rest of the orchestra.
Sorry Jonny didn’t mean you are nothing without the Brad. You are also great on your own! Just love the tag team, Batman and Robin, Tom & Jerry, Lay man rock dude creative & eloquent beer encyclopedia dad vibe as well. Love and lots of delicious beer!!!!
Hahaha didn't read it that way! Thanks for the lovely comment. Love and beer!x
What's going on with Brad?
This had to be a challenge to shoot with all that steam!
Absolutely beautifully done video guys!
You're on a cracking run of success!! Great video which had a lot to live up to after the wonderful Adnams beer-o-mentary. Love these visits to breweries of significance! Keep up the good work guys! L&B
Wonderful!
Once again, great content.
Did not expect SK Ocelote to get into the Brewing Industry tho :D Scarf-Game still strong !
This was one of the breweries I wanted to visit while in England last year but just couldn't get to it. I did have on of their beers on tap and it is exciting to see what they are making.
That was an excellent episode, so good I watched it twice. I’d would love to hear more about wild brewing/blending. Loved seeing the wert spraying into the… coolship? Cooling tray? Nah, the cool pool. Went back and watched the earlier Crossover vid too and got very thirsty.
It was interesting comparing the Adnams and Elgoods videos. Adnams with its state-of-the-art setup, old made sparklingly new. Elgoods, with its creaky old kit that would have any nostalgic brew-history geek salivating. I loved the Adnams set up, but Elgoods looked comfortable, like a pair of old slippers - the ones you never throw away.
It was definitely an interesting contrast between Adnams and Elgoods, and indeed between Elgoods and Crossover! Sadly Elgoods has seen better days, and needs to adapt fast but the site and the beers are just wonderful
@@TheCraftBeerChannel You make it sound like Elgoods is going out of business. Is that what you are saying? It would be a great shame if that were true.
@MadThom M sorry not meaning to imply that, only that the cask industry is in dire straits and they aren't immune
We will be having two of Crossover’s beers at the Biggleswade beer festival in May.
The brewery looks incredible in the steam. I'm reading Lars Garshol's farmhous brewing about how these breweries would have their own yeast growing inside and seeing those oak planks on top makes me wonder if that's where they hope they lived. But long dead by now most likely.
His book also makes the argument that the common idea that "historic beer was probably often sour" is likely wrong (unless aged) since these breweries managed to mostly use their own domesticated yeast strains that would dominate over wild stuff.
Indeed! I think the error comes from people confusing brett with lactic/acetic bacteria. These beers were very likely bretted, but only sour when when older. As Crossover explain, their beers needed a long time to develop decent acidity from wild innoculation
Wow. Now that’s the true meaning of Craft Ale. Long may they last.
I got an advert for Corona in the middle of this. Erm… I’ll stick to my Orval (who is your very best friend?) thanks very much
Amen to that. Life is too short to be drinking mediocre beer!
Hope you got a chance to experience ALLAGASH BREWING when you were here in the USA, they do a coolship beer that is quite good.
We put them in our first feature length documentary! ua-cam.com/video/hndGk61qBXM/v-deo.html
"Because no one in the UK has taken up a project, just focusing on spontaneous fermentation...'"
I think Sam Smiths did something similar at the All Saints Brewery in Stamford.
ALL SAINTS Brewery (S. SMITH) (Stamford)
Melbourne Bros. Cherry
Melbourne Bros. Strawberry
Melbourne Bros. Apricot
Wasn't a reall success, however. Would love to try the Crosssover/Elgood beers.
Fantastic video as always. The final instrumental song used is great, what is it? The linked one in the description seems to contain guitar and lyrics over the top?!
Infotainment at its best! NEED to find out where this beer is sold in North America!
Landing next month! Winter Dog Cellars in the importer….
To whoever invented pool parties for yeasts and bacteria, cheers 🍻
I must go......this brewery but be saved and restored....... Precision Panel Craft ....Night Sky Brewery.....
Any word when Crossover will start shipping to the US as they mentioned?
Will find out and report back!
Lands in late April. Winter Dog Cellars is the importer 😊
Love these old breweries and the history they have had. That history is about to be time warped at break neck speed now they have invented powdered beer 😢.
Haha I wouldn't worry too much about powdered beer. I think that stuff won't become popular unless there's an apocalypse and it's all we have left.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel at least I can have some comfort that when the apocalypse does come my powdered beer will be sitting next to my powdered milk and potatoes. Just hope the alcohol version is available by then.
The thing that blows my mind about lambic is these guys tweak their recipe and won't know if it's worked until 2 or 3 years later.
Haha - well the older guys never tweak, but yep Crossover are dealing with a very long term game of NPD.
100% of CBC's most visually beautiful videos have come in the last two weeks OOF
Cheers! Learned so much from last year's big projects and really getting to grips with our new set up
In 2023 this will be a hard sell in the States. It’s IPA or fruited crappy sours here. And everything is canned.