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Bottled the “Thomas Oakes Special Reserve”. Tweaked the recipe to allow for more repeatable beer, 4 12 oz bottles and one 22 oz. Brewed “Stone House Saison” on 7/5/11.

Recipes to come later on.

Heres some history on the OAKES, for whom my incredibly delicious IPA is named.

The Oakes Family owned and operated a woolen mill located directly next to the garden state parkway just after the essex toll plaza on your right hand side. Its been in use since the early 1800’s. Thomas Oakes was a municipal figure, entreprenuer and business man. During his families reign in Bloomfield they built two estates both located on Belleville avenue once known as New Town road. The older of the estates built in 1853 was 4 stories high and had a tower and a personal small lake, the other being built 1895 still stands and represent the cultural center of Bloomfield, NJ. The earlier was demolished in 1945 to make way for progress and the trend of sticking as many people as you can into overpriced “communities” which in the 80’s plagued the area with drugs and theft. But in recent years the town has made many improvements to the area and the over all feeling of “don’t go down Oakes road at night” has subsided. Once a spacious and beautiful wooded area is now part of the most densely populated area in the U.S. It’s a damn shame. We can only hope that one day the trees will take over again and people will have to use their hands and get back to their roots of community and creation.

Bottled this monday, two days later showing signs of healthy conditioning. Tastes great has a very traditional bitter edge but the hops shine through in the finish. Indian Bitter? New style? hmm. not quite an IPA not quite an ESB. maybe ESPA? Regardless, the nose is malty and dry with a tinge of that brewers gold smell. From the lip to the tongue you get a dry, earthy start to a smooth session middle to that nice bitter bite, but not enough to make you think its an IPA or an ESB. It fits the BCJP guidelines for ESB and for EnglishIPA. so i don’t know.

Colonel Thomas Cadmus,Revolutionary war hero, Lived in Bloomfield, NJ. His house is Located at 223 Ashland Ave near the border of Glen Ridge. His sons became architects and civic leaders. This is actually a nod to his father who was a puritan settler coming from New Amsterdam to the First mountain region near the Pesayack river. Thomas, born in Franklin (now Nutley) once had George Washinton as a house guest and seeing as how ales were served and brewed in house at that time, you can bet Mr. Washington and Mr. Cadmus practiced the daily sacrament of drinking a living ale. Hence, CADMUS DAILY BREAD, due to his puritan roots and his well laid roots in my hometown almost 200 years ago. 

CADMUS DAILY BREAD, english ipa #0004/volume 1

YEAST: safale-04

GRAINS:4 oz Weyermann smoked 

            4 oz Crisp Crystal 45l

FERMENTABLES: 1.3 lbs Liquid Amber Extract

HOPS: Brewers Gold   %aa .2 0z @ 45,30,15 min.

DRY HOP: Brewers Gold   %aa .2oz 4 days prior to bottling

5.8-6.7% I had broken my hydrometer so i’m relying on beer calculus for this.

38-45 IBU

A target OG would be 1.o78-1.o73

Brewed 6/8/11

Racked 6/20/11 

Dry hop 6/23/11

Bottle 6/27/11 -6 12oz and one 22 oz

Taste 6/29/11

Overboard Ale being renamed “Thomas Oakes Special Reserve” I’ve got one bottle left and i think i’m going to wait on it until 4th of july. It’s super smooth with a hoppy bite and nice warmth in the finish. It gives these brewpubs around here a run for their money.We have two brew pubs in my direct area, Gaslight Grill in South Orange and Port 44 in Newark. Gaslight has a GREAT bottle list, their house beer is good to undesirable, depending on the style and I feel like they all kind of taste the same in the aspect of a metallic undertone. Awesome food and they pop a different cask every thursday. I think this IPA beats the crap out of theirs. And as for Port 44, They have some exceptional taps and some so so taps. They definitely had a unique taste to all of them and no strange undertone from the brite tank. The food was to die for, literally I would die to eat that everyday. Good atmosphere and cool Newark brewing relics from the days of yore. But my IPA eats theirs for breakfast. I don’t mean to offend anyone but it’s true. After 6 batches I finally got it right. 

Tonights Brew is a tip of the hat to the great river that bordered up to 26 breweries at any given time in Newark, NJ. Most notably The Ballantine brewery which took up a good quarter of the newark riverfront from the mid 1800’s to the 1960’s. The Passaic or as the local Lenape natives called it “Pesayack” river flows through 7 counties and has numerous tributaries snaking their way through northern and western New Jersey and even New York state. Lest we not forget the unequalled power of water and we should learn to respect as the Lenape did and not abuse it with our plastic bottles and various chemical runoffs. 

Brewday: 6/28/11

Pesayack Pale ,American Pale Ale batch #0003/V2

YEAST: Safbrew S-33

GRAINS:CRISP CRYSTAL 45 L 3.2oz

             WEYERMANN SMOKED 3.6 L 3.2oz

             WEYERMANN VIENNA 3 L 3.2oz

FERMENTABLES:MUNTONS EXTRA LIGHT DME 19.1 oz

HOPS:CHINOOK LEAF 13%aa .1oz 45min

          CASCADE LEAF 5.1%aa .2oz 15min

DRY HOP: UK KENT GOLDING PELLET 4.5%aa 3days to bottling

1.056 OG/34.1 IBU/7 SRM/5.7%ABV

LOOKS KINDA DARK TO BE A PALE.

Thomas Oakes Special Reserve

formerly OverBoard Ale #0003/volume 1

Fermentables:

8oz Amber DME

1 lb Munton Wheat

Grains:  

3.3 oz Crisp Crystal 45L

4 oz Weyermann Smoked Malt

Hops:

.42 oz Chinook Leaf 13%aa

.44 oz Yakima Magnum Pellet 14%aa

.86 oz Cascade Pellet 5%aa

.73 oz czech Saaz 4%aa

Yeast: Safale s-04

steeped grain for 20 mins @ 150F then 165F for 10 minutes, poured 1/4 gallon water 170F over grains

added a .2 oz mix of all hops every three minutes for 45 minute boil

brewed 6/5/11

bottled 6/16/11

conditioned 2 weeks

notes:

VERY GOOD. my first beer that i actually REALLY like.

pours a red amber brown, nice hoppy nose hint of grapefruit almost, nice crisp start, very refreshing hoppy bite, mildly bitter and very balanced. overall tasty as hell. Entering this one into the SUSSEX COUNTY HOMEBREW CONTEST.

“talking through walls”2006 ink,marker,pencil on love letter found in fireplace from 1934,on top of sheet music from 1896.