Official Unfiltered Brewing Info Thread

[jacinthebox]

Really loving the mosaic in the sour...dare I say...perfect

[Brewnoser]

By the way in case anyone of you is thinking that this is some sort of adulteration of one of Greg's beers, and I suppose in some way it is, I view one main asset of the style to be its ability to carry different fruit flavours. When I was in Berlin it was rare and frankly I'm not sure if I remember anyone drinking the Berliner without a syrup. Now that may have changed since then, it was 1978.


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[jacinthebox]

Life Is good...beer...music...smoker smoking

Edit...it's not a mess up...everything on my deck is upside down...don't fucking judge me

[jeffsmith]

:judging:

[NASH]

:judging:

[jacinthebox]

Asshoes. ..


Ipa wit the fryer in the background cooking up some turkeys bitches

[jeffsmith]

Now everything's sideways!

[mumblecrunch]

:stilljudging:

[jacinthebox]

Stillassholes

[AllanMar]

How does everyone else find the carb on the Berliner? Had a squealer and a growler (bought same time) and both are pretty low carb. Thinking it's probably just the odd off fill, but just curious.

[Brewnoser]

You're correct in that the level of carbonation achievable via a growler fill us not going to approach the traditionally very high level this style is served at. Perhaps a pub serving it - one with decent control like Stillwell, can pump it up to 3 volumes or so.

So pour it hard for the head creation.

The other obvious, but attractive deviation from the traditional style here is the hop level. But this only serves to demonstrate Greg's understanding of his ingredients. Because it totally works and besides....

What did you fucking expect!?!


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[dean2k]

After finally trying all 4 this weekend, I'm all over Exile like a dirty shirt. Big blasts of aroma and flavour right off the jump, and then something different with every sip as the glass empties. Love it. Excuse me, fucking love it.

[NASH]

After finally trying all 4 this weekend, I'm all over Exile like a dirty shirt. Big blasts of aroma and flavour right off the jump, and then something different with every sip as the glass empties. Love it. Excuse me, fucking love it.

Nice, thanks! **Ahem*** that's fucking better

How does everyone else find the carb on the Berliner? Had a squealer and a growler (bought same time) and both are pretty low carb. Thinking it's probably just the odd off fill, but just curious.

Our employees are all new to the game so it's certainly possible. If yours were low on carbonation come on down for a couple replacements and I'll look after you. I did carb the Weisse higher than the others but if the pour gets foamy from filling too fast then the beer could end up losing too much CO2.

Staff training is ongoing and the name of the game with us is for you to have the best product possible. We lack corporate-attitude, it's about the beer and I intend that to show through to the end product in your glass. If anyone has issue with anything other than my epic-fucking-fbombs or my appearance then please contact me and I'll do my best to set it right-as-rain.

As a long time beer consumer I've taken steps to help ensure quality, some of which have been costly but they're of utmost importance - I'm asking y'all to open your wallets and hand it over to me. I want you to be treated to quality product not glorified homebrew (with my fucking fingers crossed behind my back during each sale). Our company is transparent because of this shared attitude. I have a several $k carbonation tester to help ensure CO2 level accuracy. We pay $0.05 each more for 'special order' black growler caps because you can open the growler with your hands instead of reaching for the channel-locks (as with the gold-coloured caps). We pay $1 more for our Growlers to keep our money on this continent - fuck Chinese glass (and stainless), we'll not be lured by cheap-ass prices because we understand it's important to keep our money as local as possible, and we really dig quality.

We really ARE local in every sense and we're not shy about putting our money where our mouths are. The current rage is on for everything local but go ahead and have a close look at some of the local companies. Check out their kits and gear and ask where it's manufactured, have a look at the growlers to see where they're manufactured. That's right, they're mighty quick to jump on the "local" bandwagon as they turn around and send all of your hard-spent money straight to China. Fuck that. This is important shit. Oh and btw, yup you'll find the odd "made in China" on some of our shit too.... because we've been unable to source a North American manufacturer of said item to date. The search is however, relentless.

[Brewnoser]

Best rant ever.

Disclosure: Unfiltered hired my company, ABLE Engineering Services to help them with structural modifications to the building that were necessary to accommodate a new brewery. And their landlord, hired my company to design and make sure that their new water supply from the street was adequate. This is not a minor thing, we compete daily against mega corporations owned by Swiss banks and people with more money than well, brains. But the one thing we can say about our competition is that almost every single one of them isn't owned by Nova Scotians. However you cut it that means profit and our local earned money leaves our economy. Not all of it but enough of it.

And you only need to look at the companies that are local governments hire to do their engineering to find out who these international consortium owned companies are. That's right. I said that's right, our own Procurement policies are designed to favor these foreign owned corporations and fuck the little guy. When Nash says "it's important to keep our money as local as possible " he is dead on. Maybe he should run for premier, now that would be a fucking hoot


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[Toni]

Nice rant, Nash.

I would encourage you to proudly advertise that your stuff is (mostly) made in Canada. I certainly had no idea you sourced your growlers locally (or rather, that others didn't). I bought one on the weekend as I didn't have any wide-mouth squealers in my inventory. Plus your logo is dope.

I remember visiting the Alamo a couple of years ago and browsing the gift shop. So much patriotic merchandise, but when you flip it over or read the tag it's all clearly marked China or Indonesia or some other Asian country. I had a good chuckle thinking how much money was being made by playing the patriot card while slashing costs by any means. My gf thought I should have walked in and tried to reclaim the store for Mexico. That would also have been funny.

[Jimmy]

I would encourage you to proudly advertise that your stuff is (mostly) made in Canada. I certainly had no idea you sourced your growlers locally (or rather, that others didn't).

Most other breweries do source growlers locally (Jym Line in Elmsdale), but the growlers are made in China (or elsewhere). Looking at the growlers side-by-side you can tell - the Chinese made growlers are much more transparent than the Unfiltered ones.

I believe the same is true for a lot of the brewing equipment - purchased locally (from DME in PEI) but then outsourced to foreign manufacturers.

[NASH]

I would encourage you to proudly advertise that your stuff is (mostly) made in Canada. I certainly had no idea you sourced your growlers locally (or rather, that others didn't).

Most other breweries do source growlers locally (Jym Line in Elmsdale), but the growlers are made in China (or elsewhere). Looking at the growlers side-by-side you can tell - the Chinese made growlers are much more transparent than the Unfiltered ones.

I believe the same is true for a lot of the brewing equipment - purchased locally (from DME in PEI) but then outsourced to foreign manufacturers.

You are correct on the growlers but your take on our brewing equipment needs a little brushup. We had the entire system manufactured in PE. Where Chinese parts would normally have been used we swapped in North American made only pieces - that's manways, sample taps, piping elbows and T's, pressed-dome tank tops, triclamps etc etc This alone cost us a small fortune, we could have bought a few new cars. It's important to us.

[Jimmy]

I would encourage you to proudly advertise that your stuff is (mostly) made in Canada. I certainly had no idea you sourced your growlers locally (or rather, that others didn't).

Most other breweries do source growlers locally (Jym Line in Elmsdale), but the growlers are made in China (or elsewhere). Looking at the growlers side-by-side you can tell - the Chinese made growlers are much more transparent than the Unfiltered ones.

I believe the same is true for a lot of the brewing equipment - purchased locally (from DME in PEI) but then outsourced to foreign manufacturers.

You are correct on the growlers but your take on our brewing equipment needs a little brushup. We had the entire system manufactured in PE. Where Chinese parts would normally have been used we swapped in North American made only pieces - that's manways, sample taps, piping elbows and T's, pressed-dome tank tops, triclamps etc etc This alone cost us a small fortune, we could have bought a few new cars. It's important to us.

That's what I meant - that DME would typically outsource some (or all?) of the equipment to foreign manufacturers, but that Unfiltered chose to have it all made in-house at DME (or at least in NA).

[NASH]

Nice rant, Nash.

I would encourage you to proudly advertise that your stuff is (mostly) made in Canada. I certainly had no idea you sourced your growlers locally (or rather, that others didn't). I bought one on the weekend as I didn't have any wide-mouth squealers in my inventory. Plus your logo is dope.

I remember visiting the Alamo a couple of years ago and browsing the gift shop. So much patriotic merchandise, but when you flip it over or read the tag it's all clearly marked China or Indonesia or some other Asian country. I had a good chuckle thinking how much money was being made by playing the patriot card while slashing costs by any means. My gf thought I should have walked in and tried to reclaim the store for Mexico. That would also have been funny.

Thanks! We do plan an installment about our local stance on the website soon.

[NASH]

Most other breweries do source growlers locally (Jym Line in Elmsdale), but the growlers are made in China (or elsewhere). Looking at the growlers side-by-side you can tell - the Chinese made growlers are much more transparent than the Unfiltered ones.

I believe the same is true for a lot of the brewing equipment - purchased locally (from DME in PEI) but then outsourced to foreign manufacturers.

You are correct on the growlers but your take on our brewing equipment needs a little brushup. We had the entire system manufactured in PE. Where Chinese parts would normally have been used we swapped in North American made only pieces - that's manways, sample taps, piping elbows and T's, pressed-dome tank tops, triclamps etc etc This alone cost us a small fortune, we could have bought a few new cars. It's important to us.

That's what I meant - that DME would typically outsource some (or all?) of the equipment to foreign manufacturers, but that Unfiltered chose to have it all made in-house at DME (or at least in NA).

That's right. Tuns and kettles and possibly hot / cold liquor tanks are generally made in house on the island. Fermenter and the rest outsourced to DME Asia devision.

[gm-]

Where can I get some on tap? My growlers are on a ship crossing the Atlantic ocean, so I can't get some at the brewery. Had the APA at Stillwell, but would like to try the rest of the line up.

[Brewnoser]

Toms. Stubborn Goat


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[GAM]

Where can I get some on tap? My growlers are on a ship crossing the Atlantic ocean, so I can't get some at the brewery. Had the APA at Stillwell, but would like to try the rest of the line up.

Jon
Come borrow a growler.

Sandy

[Jimmy]

Where can I get some on tap? My growlers are on a ship crossing the Atlantic ocean, so I can't get some at the brewery. Had the APA at Stillwell, but would like to try the rest of the line up.

Stubborn Goat is probably your best bet if you're looking to try all of them. They had all 4 on the other night - I believe they have at least 3 of them on now.

[Brewnoser]

I also have extra growlers you can use.


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