Team Building Brewing

Lervig's first team building experiment was completed yesterday when a group of Geophysicists from a local Oil drilling company bottled their own beer. The project began when the Lead Geophysicist came to the brewery to purchase some beer for himself. A week or so later he was back for more beer and to ask about the possiblity to produce some beer for his team. We had a meeting and a few beers later decided how to go about it.

My co worker and myself met his whole team at the Cardinal Pub in town and had arranged a beer tasting of 12 beers which cover a broad range of what beer is and what beer can be from Pilsner to a Smoked Impierial Stout. We had a fun filled eveing but before it was over the team had a better understanding for what beer is and how it is made. We also decided what sort of beer they desired to produce with our 800Liter system....

Two weeks later the team visited the brewery, with my help they were instructed on milling the malts, and mashing in the malt to start the brew, Many persons toured the rest of the brewery while enjoying our beers and some grilled food thanks to our friend Magne. After about 6 hours their beer was in the fermenter....

They ended up with over 1700 bottles of beer with their own label and fitting name 'Explore Me' as they are normaly an oil field exploring team and now they can add beer exploring to their list of discoveries

Guest Brew with Anders Kissmeyer...

My old Advisary and friend Anders Kissmeyer has been up here in Stavanger the past few days for a fun and interesting brew day. We have made what we think will be an exciting and tasty Smoked Baltic Porter. Since it was the first time for me smoking malt or smoking anything I was concered that the smokey character wasnt going to be noticable in the brew. I am happy to say it is there not over powering but firm and enjoyable in the flavor.

The beer is under fermentation and I think this beer can be ready to ship to Denmark in a few weeks. I of course plan to hold a few hunder liters here in norway and Anders can decide where the rest will go.

I have enjoyed the time I spent with Anders, he is alway willing to share his opinon and I respect his knowledge and professional experience. I look forward to brew with him in the future when possible. I wish Anders a big success with his new projects, he truly is a die hard brewer!

Another New Beer... In the tank

I finally got around to brewing an Imperial Stout. I had a long day cause I mashed in around 12,30 and I pushed my 800 L system with 300kg of malt... after a long and slow run off in the lauter tank I put 700Liters of 22.0P black wort into the tank.

I brewed it with:

Pilsner malt, Brown malt, Roasted Barley, Chocolate malt, Crystal malt, and Oatmeal with some candy sugar in there too.

I used mainly hop extract for the hopping and some late chinook, for an IBU of about 85, but I dont think it will be noticeable.

And here is a potential label if we bottle it... Name and look are not determined...

Winter ale Launch in Vinmonoplet next week

Lervig's new beer Winter Ale is a Strong ale which I brewed with about 150kg of raisins in about 4500L of this beer. I think this beer will age very well so I allowed a 5 year sell by date.
It is a dark copper colored beer and it has rich flavors from it's combonation of toasted caramel malts and and raison addition after boiling the wort. It's full flavored mouthfeel will pair perfectly with your hearty witner stews, or heartier food fare at the same time help keep you warm on a cold winter night.
Look for it in bars in Stavanger or in Vinmonoplotet stores!

Anders Kissmeyer in Norway

Anders (to the right) will be visiting Lervig wensday the 19th of January and we will brew a collaboration beer together. I think for Anders he is becoming quite known for his famous Smoked malted beers and what would be better than a 7,0% abv Smoked Baltic Porter. The beer will be divided and sold into Danmark and here in Norway. The beer should be available late febuary for shipment.

Wendsday evening Anders will be presenting himself and talking about his new brand "Kissmeyer Beer" at the Cardinal Pub in Stavanger.

Anders has had a long carreer starting with 16 years at Carlsberg, and then the last 10 years as a founder and brewmaster of Norrebrø Bryghus in Copenghagen.

Anders has been in my opinon one of the leading voices in Scandinavian craft brewing, and he has done his job at promoting great beer in Danmark and abroad.

Anders has been a present figure in the beer scene durring my years in Copenhagen brewing for Gourmet Bryggeriet, and we became closer due to the involvement of a good friend and brewer Shaun Hill pictured to the left, here they are displaying their Medals from the last World Beer Cup where some Norrebrø's beers won gold on some of the most competive catagories. The beer "Seven" a Russian Imperial stout was a collaboration between Shaun Hill-Norrebrø, Christain Skodval Andersen - Beer Here and more, the guys from Devil brewery, Mikkeller, Peter Sonne, Amager Bryghus, and Myself thus the name "SEVEN" for the seven breweries particapting. So i guess we may name this next guest brew "Two".... then again maybe not:-)