Rock Me (again) Amadeus!

The fourth Buzzard's Brew has made its world debut tonight. "Shaved Amadeus" is a light and tasty butterscotch-amber colored Vienna Lager. It makes a nice counter-point to the darker and more dour Irish Stout that popped out of the cavernous Man Cave cellars last week.

This has an alcohol content of only 3.7% and it's color is a 9 using the Standard Reference Method (SRM) which makes it just a little lighter than a Bass Pale Ale.  However, on the International Bitterness Units (IBU) scale it weighs in at a hefty 23, making this the second-most bitter beer I've brewed thus far.  Altogether, this is a Class 4 Lager.

Just to see whether I could do it or not, I snapped a video of the first pour this evening and have just posted it to YouTube.  If I can't figure out how to cross-post it to the blog, here's a direct link:

First Pour of Shaved Amadeus Vienna Lager

On a related note, bottling of BB-VI Farty Monk Belgian Dubbel took place last night.  All 8 quarts are in the conditioning cabinet sitting next to 8 quarts of BB-V New World Czech Pilsner and the 2nd half of the Shaved Amadeus batch.  I'd like to say that I've set back those 4 Pilsner quarts to give them extra conditioning to enhance the flavors by allowing the hops to come forward and generate exciting esters that will, uhh, increase the manifest destiny of the beer enjoyment quotient.... Well, that'd just be a pile of BS, the real reason I kept 4 quarts of BB-IV back is that there wasn't enough room in the cold conditioning unit for the entire batch plus 6 or 7 quarts of Irish Stout.  Extra conditioning won't hurt the beer at all, so if there's no room in the mini-fridge, it can stay in the conditioning cabinet an extra week or two.