Abby

Описание

Abby 2020 is made with Greenwood organic oats, rye and barley, mash filtered through organic barley straw, boiled with organic Ryefield hops and finally macerated on white peaches from Thornbrook after making St Abigail 2020.This beer started off life quite differently than the majority of our beer. Instead of a grist laden with raw wheat alongside malted barley, the base for Abby takes inspiration from saisons of old preferring a mixture of malted rye and rolled oats. I love the spice that rye brings to a finished beer, and the mouthfeel of oats suits our culture well. However, with >20% of the grist occupied with grains that do not filter easily, we feared a stuck mash was unavoidable. So, taking a page out of an old book, we decided to attempt laying down a straw bed at the bottom of the mash tun in order to aid in filtration. A more modern approach to a potential stuck mash would be to turn to rice hulls which both led extra roughage and impart no flavour. The barley straw came to us from Chris and Sam Greenwood, the same growers outside Coleambally, NSW from whom we source most all our grains for brewing. I was interested in testing both the filtration capacity of the straw as well as if if imparted a flavour in the resultant beer even after boiling. Much to my delight, the straw worked wonderfully and although the mash had a more porridge-like texture, we did not have any troubles lautering.