Domestic Saturday: Indie's Community Nut Job

I would love to bring Domestic Thursday back as a regular thing. Unfortunately, while I've kept up with the beer drinking, naturally, I've fallen short on the other domestic front (even laundry tests my limits these days.) So it's a good thing there's a special beer for a Saturday special edition.

Behold, the Indie Ale House Community Nut Job! Community because it's a joint project between three of the better places in the Junction: Indie, 3030, and Hole in the Wall. Nut Job because a Bulk Barn's worth of assorted nuts were thrown into the brew. And I know because I was there.

My brother works at 3030 (swing by, check out a show, tell him to shave), and because he loves me, he let me take his place during the brewing process. Indie's Jason and Jeff kindly put up with what little help I could offer (thanks limited upper body strength!) and answered all of my questions. I even fetched the odd tool or two out of the sanitizer buckets. The hardest part of the day was knowing that I would have to wait for weeks to taste the finished product, but at least the wort tasted rich and nutty. And now I've had the fermented result, from 3030's cask. It's not nearly as nutty in the glass as the wort I tried, but there's still an initial rich taste which reminds me of the walnuts, hazelnuts and chestnuts we tossed in. It finishes off like chocolate, and if you're getting it from the cask there's very little carbonation. Sadly, it appears as if people who worked very hard for this beer still have to pay to drink it. Workers of the world, unite. I have nothing to lose, and a whole cask of beer to gain.