Everyone knows that the summer months mean festival season. Our next stop on the wonderful beer festival tour is the Hattiesburg Craft Beer Festival. There are many new breweries and many up and coming breweries in the state of Mississippi that make a great product worth trying. If you ever make the trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, you can check out Lazy Magnolia, Crooked Letter, and Mississippi Brewing Company, among others.
In Hattiesburg we will be serving three different brews including everyone's favorite Belgian Missile Crisis, a Belgian Wit brewed with coriander and orange zest. We also will début two new recipes. First, a Baltic Porter aged for three weeks in a whiskey barrel from King's County Distillery. This beer is dark, strong, with a nice whiskey aroma without the bite. The oak flavor from the barrel pairs well with the roasted flavors in the beer.
The second new recipe has been in the works for over a year now. We call it Operation Fortitude. It is an amber Biere de Garde, a French-style ale that is similar to the Belgian Saison style. It has a sweet malt flavor with a strong aroma of banana and clove. This beer is much different than the typical amber lagers that most are used to drinking.
If you are up for the road trip, you should come visit us in Hattiesburg next weekend, June 13th. We will be sure to keep you posted on how the event goes. It will be great to meet the brewers of the new Mississippi breweries that will be at the festival. We will keep you posted on brew days, so you can stop by to learn about home brewing and enjoy some good beer.
