Comments on: RFT Best of St. Louis 2008 (Beer Edition)

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:33:40 +0000

Oh, I agree, I think they’re completely different tasting. But then again I’d argue almost any cask beer is going to taste different from it’s carbonated counterpart.

From a marketing standpoint, I’d personally be inclined to keep the “5 Day” name just to avoid confusion such as this.

But I can understand that with the different dry hopping for the beer it leads to a different tasting beer. Which means you want to keep it separate from the original 5 Day.

By: Dave J

Dave J — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:46:50 +0000

We are just differently dry hopping and conditiong the 5 Day. We dont like to call it “cask 5 day” because it is totally different cask conditioned. Yes it is the same beer but its not. Try them side by side, its a good way to test your palate.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:03:27 +0000

I’m curious about that Dave, are you guys brewing a whole different batch of beer or are you just differently dry-hopping the 5-Day base for the cask beer?

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:02:08 +0000

Well, the 5-Day IPA *is* the Best Beer in St. Louis. We got that much right.

Sigh.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:06:50 +0000

He received a trackback from this post.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:29:03 +0000

ok, i believe martyn… but did someone alert him to this discussion? or is he out surfing blogs looking to dispute the origins of IPA? because that’d be a little obsessive.

By: Dave J

Dave J — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:58:00 +0000

Kally is right. We call the cask just cask IPA. It is cask conditioned and dry hopped with whatever hop I want to throw in it. I could just cask condition the 5 Day with the same hops, then you could call it cask 5 Day. But it would just be flat warm 5 Day. Almost every batch of cask I make is with a different hop (I use Chinook alot) but I like to mix it up. The ones Tom and Ben have on now I think are Chinook. Next up are dry hopped with (a twist) Hallertau MF. Every cask has a sticker on it with the date and the type of hop it is dry hopped with. If you are curious, nicely ask the bartender to look at the label for you.