Dissolution Dubbel

Early last month I hosted a collaborative brewing session with Al who blogs at Fuggled and Eric who blogs at Relentless Thirst. The day had been long in-the-making with months of emails exchanged to build the recipe and plan the date. The final product of this collaboration will be a beer brewed by three Virginia homebrewers and beer bloggers from three different regions and homebrew clubs. Broedershcap (Dutch for Brotherhood) Brouwerij is the name of our collaborative brewery.

The style we agreed upon was a Belgian dubbel. The recipe was a product of input from each of us. The name of the beer, Dissolution Dubbel, was suggested by Al and is a reference to the end of monasticism in England.

Currently the roughly 10 gallons of universe changing dubbel is conditioning and carbonating in two corny kegs, one of which will be bottled in weeks to come.

Al posted a great write up of the brewday events here along with some very nice pictures and the recipe so I won't go into too much detail about that myself. But, I will say that the day was a lot of fun and that aside from brewing, there was a lot of great homebrew shared. I will leave you with a preview of the uncarbonated beer as it appeared at kegging when I drew off a sample into a small taster glass.