Current Beer List 2/27/06

Brilliant! Dry Irish Stout
It's that time of year again. When the south siders parade about, when they dye the river green, and when your friends think it's cool to pretend they are Irish. To commerate we are offering Brilliant!, a opaque and creamy stout with a silky mouthfeel. It's served on nitrogen so watch for cascades, and erin go bleargh!

Rise 'N Shine *Nearly Gone*Coffee Oatmeal Stout a.k.a Breakfast Stout 5% ABVRise 'N Shine is an opaque black stout with a tan head that begins with the aroma of dark roasted coffee. It has a smooth yet full body with a hint of coffee flavors that complements the stout's flavors rather than overwhelms it.

Hot Beer
American style Wheat Ale spiced with fresh Anaheim and Habanero chili peppers 5%ABV
If you happen to feel daring, try our little experiment. Anaheim's give it a solid pepper flavor, and the Habaneros give it a spicy burn that lets you know what's up.

Aught Six Ale
English style ESB (Extra Special Bitter) 5.5% ABV
Traditional English ale brewed with floor malted English Malts, balanced against East Kent Golding and Fuggles hops.

X-IPA
Imperial India Pale Ale 7.5% ABV
This big, hoppy beast was brewed with 100% Amarillo hops, giving it a big citrusy aroma that follows you throughout the entire pint.

Bottling World Beer Cup Entries at Walter Payton's Roundhouse

Feb Fest Fotos

Free Beer

If you see me Saturday, and tell me you read it on this site, I'll give you a free beer in Libertyville.

Leftorium

It's a beer from Flanders, and Matt is left handed. Get it?


Here are some pictures from today.

Our Sour Mash





Me working




Checking color and gravity


Sparge


Important Research


Matt cleaning


Our Boil

Another Even Just Around The Corner

Stout Fest

Goose Island Clybourn. 1800 N. Clybourn Ave
Sunay March 5th 1pm-5pm
$30 gets you twenty beer tickets

What we are bringing:
Rise N' Shine Coffee Oatmeal Stout and
BRILLIANT! our Dry Irish Stout

Current beer list

Seasonals 2/14/06
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Sheol
American Style Barley Wine 9.5% ABV
Sheol- a Hebrew word denoting the "abode of the dead"; the "underworld", "grave" or "pit".
It's a big beer, hence the big name.

Sheol is gone for now but we are aging about 100 gallons in Woodford reserve barrels. Look for it around Christmas of 06 time.

Rise 'N Shine *Nearly Gone*
Coffee Oatmeal Stout a.k.a Breakfast Stout 5% ABV
Rise 'N Shine is an opaque black stout with a tan head that begins with the aroma of dark roasted coffee. It has a smooth yet full body with a hint of coffee flavors that complements the stout's flavors rather than overwhelms it.

Hot Beer *Nearly Gone*
American style Wheat Ale spiced with fresh Anaheim and Habanero chili peppers 5%ABV
If you happen to feel daring, try our little experiment. Anaheim's give it a solid pepper flavor, and the Habaneros give it a spicy burn that lets you know what's up.

Aught Six Ale
English style ESB (Extra Special Bitter) 5.5% ABV
Traditional English ale brewed with floor malted English Malts, balanced against East Kent Golding and Fuggles hops.

X-IPA
Imperial India Pale Ale 7.5% ABV
This big, hoppy beast was brewed with 100% Amarillo hops, giving it a big citrusy aroma that follows you throughout the entire pint.

What work looks like

These are the kinds of things you see when you work in a brewpub.

BRILLIANT!

In honor of St. Paddy's day, or should I say "honour" Matt and I have brewed a Dry Irish stout, in our never ending cycle of rotating stouts. Rise 'N Shine should still be on for a few more weeks, but come Smarch, you should see it on.





And I nearly forgot, we are serving it on Nitrogen.

Seasonals On Their Way to Your Mouth

Belgian beers will be the unofficial theme for this spring. Matt and I plan on making three Belgian style beers: a Belgian Wit, a Belgian brown, and a Biere De Garde.

Information about said styles,

Belgian Wit
the Belgian Wit (white) style is a fruity, pale wheat beer accented with orange peel, coriander, and other spices. This is a subtle, delicate beer, best appreciated by those who like a refreshing wheat beer with a touch of spice character. The name wit (or white) was attached to this style due to both the original use of unmalted wheat, and to the fact that this beer was brewed without finings, so more yeast than normal remained in suspension.

Belgian Brown
Many distinctive variations of dark brown ales are made in Belgium, especially in Flanders. The classic style, with an interplay of caramel-like malty sweetness and a sourness gained in several months of maturation (usually in metal tanks), is sometimes identified as Oud ("Old") Bruin (the pronunciation is amost the same as the English word "brown"). The most complex examples have a secondary fermentation in the bottle.

Biere de Garde
This northern region [of France] shares a border with Belgium, one of the greatest brewing wonderlands in the world. As is the custom of French Flanders, beer is the traditional drink, a love that displays the style and finesse of the people, along with their dedication to artisanal tradition. This is the center of bieres de garde, or beers for keeping, the ales that were brewed to last throughout the summer months.

Like the saisons of Belgium, these bieres de garde were farmhouse ales brewed for the farmers and their fieldhands, but were vastly unique in flavor. They were intense, invigorating, strong – and stored in traditional champagne bottles.

You might interpret the champagne bottle, with cork and wire hood, to be a statement about an elitist cultural attitude toward beer in this region of Europe. However, the champagne region of France lies fifty miles to the south, and the convenience of using the same bottles led to the tradition for biere de garde.

These beers may be flattened gold to intense amber in color, the result of lightly kilning the barley malt. They generally have an earthy character, with anise, exotic spices and herbal wood undertones. You may find a sweetness or fruitiness in the center, along with flavors of biscuit, and the warming splash of alcohol. It has a rounded smoothness, the result of the process of warm fermentation, followed by cold maturation.


It's going to be a good spring...

Awards We Won In 2005

It was a pretty awesome year for the brewing staff. We walked away with six national awards and two regional awards.



Great American Beer Festival 2005 Denver Colorado

Brewery	Beer	State	Medals	Category
Flossmoor Station Brewing Co.	Pullman Brown Ale	IL	Bronze	Specialty Beer
Flossmoor Station Brewing Co.	Ella's Epidur-Ale	IL	Bronze	Specialty Honey Lager or Ale
Flossmoor Station Brewing Co.	De Zuidentrein Frambozenbier	IL	Bronze	Fruit and Vegetable Beer

3^rd Annual Festival of Barrel-aged Beer Goose Island Wrigleyville

Classic Porter/Stout
Silver: Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery, IL – Hi Beam Stout

Strong/Double/Imperial Pale Beer
Bronze: Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery – Ol’ Woody

Experimental Beer
Gold: Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery, IL – Angry Mike’s Stoudt Kriek

Chicago Beer Society 2005 Brewpub Shootout

Food and Beer Pairing : De Zuidentrein and chocolate raspberry cheescake

Chicago Beer Society 2005 Night of the Living Ales

Third Place Best Cask Conditioned Ale : Hopsmack Imperial IPA

Upcoming Awesome Places To Find Flossmoor Beer Outside of Flossmoor

FebFest

Hosted by Brewers On the Bluff

Yeah, it's all the way up in Libertyville, but for some of you, that's a good thing.

Saturday, February 18, 2006
6pm – 11pm
@ the Libertyville Civic Center in Downtown Libertyville
135 West Church Street

Who's going to be there? Well I'm not 100% sure, but here is the list from last year.

Mickey Finn’s Restaurant & Brewery
Flossmoor Station Restaurant and Brewery
Brass Restaurant and Brewery
Goose Island Beer Company
Onion Pub & Brewery
Sand Creek Brewing Company
Flatlanders Restaurant & Brewery
Lakefront Brewery
Ram Restaurant & Brewery
Prairie Rock

Come out and see us with our Nor'dth Side friends.
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Night of the Living Ales

Hosted by Chicago Beer Society

Saturday, March 4
6:30-10:30 pm at Goose Island Wrigleyville, 3535 N. Clark St., Chicago

It's all about cask conditioned ales on March 4th. There are supposed to be more than 30 different casks that you will be able to serve yourself from. CBS events like this tend to sell out quickly, so get your ticket soon.

Current Beer List

Seasonal Offerings
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Sheol
American Style Barley Wine 9.5% ABV
Sheol- a Hebrew word denoting the "abode of the dead"; the "underworld", "grave" or "pit".
It's a big beer, hence the big name. Except for the 100 gallons or so that we are aging in a bourbon barrel right now, this draft is nearly gone. Get it while the gettin's good.

Rise 'N Shine
Coffee Oatmeal Stout a.k.a Breakfast Stout 5% ABV
Rise 'N Shine is an opaque black stout with a tan head that begins with the aroma of dark roasted coffee. It has a smooth yet full body with a hint of coffee flavors that complements the stout's flavors rather than overwhelms it.

Hot Beer
American style Wheat Ale spiced with fresh Anaheim and Habanero chili peppers 5%ABV
If you happen to feel daring, try our little experiment. Anaheim's give it a solid pepper flavor, and the Habaneros give it a spicy burn that lets you know what's up.

Aught Six Ale
English style ESB (Extra Special Bitter) 5.5% ABV
Traditional English ale brewed with floor malted English Malts, balanced against East Kent Golding and Fuggles hops.

X-IPA
Imperial India Pale Ale 7.5% ABV
This big, hoppy beast was brewed with 100% Amarillo hops, giving it a big citrusy aroma that follows you throughout the entire pint.

House Beers
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Zephyr Golden Ale
Our lightest beer, the Zephyr is a light and refreshing golden blond ale in the style of premium American beer. Brewed with three varieties of hops and a touch of rice, this light golden ale provides a smooth introduction to the distinctive flavors of our premium quality handcrafted beers.
Gandy Dancer Honey Ale
With a blend of aromatic rye and a whisper of Orange Blossom honey, our Gandy Dancer is light and sparkling, yet full of flavor. The addition of three varieties of hops guarantees an inviting and complex taste, proving that lighter beers can have character.
Station Master Wheat Ale
A golden, flavorful, and crisp light ale brewed with 33% wheat malt, our Station Master Wheat is distinguished by a hoppy yet smooth taste with a malty body and a subtly spicy aroma.
Chessie Cherry Wheat Ale and Roundhouse Raspberry
Fruit beers originated in Belgium and we at The Station are proud to offer our version of these continental classics. Our light-bodied Chessie Cherry Wheat is a blend of red cherries and wheat ale, which yields a slightly sweet, yet agreeably tart, fruit ale.
Panama Limited Red Ale
Our Panama Limited Red is a hoppy, robust yet smooth amber ale brewed with nine different malts and four types of hops. With its deep amber color and rich malty body, our Panama Limited Red will smoothly transport you into the wonderful world of complex and flavorful handcrafted beers.
Pullman Nut Brown Ale
This robust, dark brown ale gets its rich flavor from seven different malts and three types of hops. The addition of hand-toasted oats and a generous portion of molasses give the Pullman Nut Brown Ale an incredible smoothness and quaffability.