Blog — brewing

Like Elvis... Like everyone. In true SFBC style, the reference to Elvis wasn’t actually a call out to Elvis himself but came from the opening lyrics of a song called “Mother Mary” by a band called Far. The beer morphed into an Elvis reference … the additions, I hope, make that fairly clear. The idea for the whole Darkest Timeline series originated with this one song while I was on a canoe trip in the summer of 2020. The series title came later but - as with most of my naming scheme - it is pop culture references from start...

Our Lando project can get a bit confusing. Let's be real, SFBC can be a little confusing in general. In his most recent blog post, Rob takes a stab at explaining the process of producing our oddly named batches of this ongoing sour Saison. While he's at it, he rants a little about our lack of flashing lights. 

It is with absolute, unbridled excitement that we present to you Short Finger’s tasting room. It’s definitely not a final product, but having been in the planning stages since long before Rob and Kat launched Short Finger out of their basement over three years ago, it’s finally feeling way closer to finished than not. I wanted to take a quick second out of your non-stop growing excitement for Pulp to introduce myself, and let you know what you’ll be able to expect, both this weekend as we launch our bar ever so softly, and also for the weeks and months...

As some of you are aware, we brewed Pulp again with Barncat Artisan Ales in early January. I won’t get too deep into the pain of zesting, so let’s just say that it was more than enough… particularly since we’re releasing two versions of Pulp this time around. The original recipe, first brewed at Barncat in 2017, and an SFBC tweak. Both beers were brewed the exact same way with the exact same ingredients + ratios. Barncat was kind enough to let me use their house yeast to ferment with, so even the sacch strain is consistent. As most homebrewers...

It happened. It feels like only yesterday that I was just hanging out in my basement, trying to hock hops and grain to the local neighbourhood kids. If you have been along for this ride you have seen me in many locations and at varying levels of stress (mostly dependent upon the supply of beer). The plan was to release this blog post prior to launching the bottle shop on Thursday, but things were a little busy and it didn’t happen. So it goes. If you were able to get out for the launch on Thursday, it was a crazy...