BREWING
Micky Hoyle
Sheldon Evans
malt and dry-hopped with noble hops. Smell the freshly-cut lawn spritzed with lemon. Taste crisp refreshing bitterness balanced by the sweet pilsner malt. Super Session is a 4.2 ABV, 14 IBU Cannabis Ale (Blonde) made from nat- ural hemp seeds with no added THC. Notes of rich tropical fruits with a hint of mellowness. Electric Light is a 4.5%, 13 IBU Weiss- style beer. Classic and cool. Think fresh- ly-baked homemade bread with a mix of oral, clove, citrus and fruity aromas. Mad Giant Brewery, interior by Haldane Martin
The beers Mad Giant currently has six main beers; a Lager, Cannabis (Blonde) Ale, Pilsner, Weiss, Pale Ale and India Pale Ale style beers and the brewery occasionally releases lim- ited special-edition beers, some of which are collaborations with other breweries. Mad Giant Lager is a 4.2% ABV, 14 IBU real lager brewed to give a soft gen- tle nish. Think biscuit, honey, caramel and toffee, nished off with noble oral and gentle spice hop aromas.
unitanks all with individual temperature control for fermentation and matu- ration. It also has two 10hL unitanks which were originally designed for yeast storage but are now mainly used for experimental small-batch runs. The green beer is ltered through a horizontal leaf- lter imported from Italy, with the beer going through bag trap lters en route to the bright beer tanks (one at 30hL, a second at 60hL). The beer is then packaged using a kegging machine and bottling unit which are also both imported from Italy. None of the Mad Giant beers are pasteurised or sterile ltered. The brewery ensures product shelf-life by employing strict quality control and quality-assurance practices plus cold chain distribution. The brewery has implemented Good Manufacturing Practices and is one of the few micro- breweries in the country to have its own in-house quality laboratory. This lab is well equipped with high-tech equipment to run a range of quality tests throughout the process, including yeast counts, yeast via- bility, % alcohol, dissolved oxygen, carbon dioxide plus a range of rapid microbiological testing. The brewery outsources some of the other quality tests such as bitterness level, free amino nitrogen, and SO 2 . The brewery has a staff of ve pro- duction personnel who are all as equally driven as their CEO/Brewmaster Eben. One of the things I like about Eben and Mad Giant is the willingness to develop and up-skill the staff. Both the head brewer and production manager are sitting for the IBD quali cations and rest of the team are going through a range of other brewing related training programmes.
The Guzzler is a 4.8% ABV, 26 IBU Pilsner-style beer brewed using Pilsner
The Mad Giant Brewery The locally-sourced 30hL brewery in all its glory; keg and bottle lter sourced from Italy.
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