Montessori by @garagebeerco collaboration with @somabeer
The mysterious Garage Beer co. have been turning out some great beers recently, but I’ve seen very few of them in the UK so far. My second experience has been this great ‘Montessori’, which wikipedia says is a ‘child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood’. Not sure how that applies to beer, but maybe it does? Maybe it was a ‘beer centred educational approach based on scientific observations of beer from grain to glass’… right? I imagine instead of just using the water, they probably told it what was happening.
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’You’re going to get really hot now’
And the beer stayed stoically silent but still they kept going. (Remember this was all in Spanish, so you’ll have to sort of imagine it)
The hops loving tendered, grown and prepared for the beer, before being tragically split up only to rejoin each other when the dry hops were added in a triumphant reunion.
Maybe the brewers really observed what was going on with the beer, not just in a scientific way, but an educational way too.
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‘I’m going to teach you how to be tasty’ they might have said (in Spanish), as the sounds and smells of central Barcelona filled the air (probably not the immediately surrounding air, but the air outside…. which I guess might not have quite made it down to the brewing room so maybe had absolutely no effect, but just imagine it) and tenderly continuing ’I’m going to add some Lalbrew New England Yeast to highlight your HBC431 hops’ – and if that kind of line doesn’t make you melt then you must be made of stone.
Did it work? It’s light, tangy and misty in colour. So did it? I’ll let you be the judge of that.
8/10 Henrys