Beermiscuous Highwood

We're at Lakeview on Thu Aug 14 for a service special!

The included lines are 60" of 1/4" ID Barriermaster Flavour-lock at .3 lb restriction per ft, just 1.5 lbs. Would require 77.3 ft to achieve balance. Suitable for high flow rate I might want in a Lukr line, faster than our main tower (-21.7 vs -17) but very fast for an American faucet pour.

Micro matic has a 16" column tower [DS-132-PSS-C] which gives a good height for Lukr activities out of the box. Normal towers are 12-13 inches, only good for short mugs. It needs the American shank adapter, the shank holes are spinstops so won't fit Lukr shanks without machining the shank hole.

Ice chilled beer lines and Matsuo-style beer service

"with every process change to increase efficiency, you lose a bit of distinction along the way." -Notch @notchbrewing.bsky.social

The ice chilled lines are stainless now, not tin. but the beer is poured in the Pour Twice tradition of Arai and Nada Columbia, carried on by Matsuo and Bier Reise '98.

Before beer system manuals marketing the perfect pour, the perfect pour was done through well practiced tapsters. Beer traveled through coiled lines immersed in ice water. The ice had to be hand cut to protect the soft tin lines. Length and diameter of lines achieved through trial and error.

The inherited equipment of Kohei Matsuo at Bier Reise '98 solves a 75+ year old question first answered by Nada Colombia. If the kegs are kept cold, how do you keep the lines, tower, and faucet cold too?

Just keep everything on ice.

All this Sunday June 27, we're running ice chilled beer lines on a very special edition of Japanese style beer service. What does that mean?

Beware. the Corn Sweat approaches.

using ice chilled beer lines inspired by the 75+ year old beer servers of Bier Reise '98, centered around the Kohei Matsuo "Pour Twice" which carries on the Tokuji Arai style of Nada Columbia. Only the 2nd time this beer service has been offered in the US, after Lakeview's recent 11th Anniversary.

[Business Calendar for July]
This is Beermiscuous!
We will do our best to pour delicious beer for everyone, so please check out our business calendar for Japanese-style pour service.

・Sun July 27 we will feature a special pour festival with ice chilled beer lines.

Beware. the Corn Sweat approaches.

From Wasatch Brewery, Salt Lake City
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Check out this cool one faucet tower setup.

It reminds me of a couple different Japanese shops, pouring from the side is especially present on the Bier Reise '98 chilled servers (home of the Matsuo Pour Twice)

summers over

Kick Push Prost is a Marzen style Octoberfest by Mikerphone. Available this week from AJ Maka Distro.

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YouTube video by Zahm & Nagel Zahm Series 7000 New Style Air Tester: Operating Instructions

I love how a lot of Zahm & Nagel stuff has all these gauges and pressure and valves but then the next step is just "shake down the whole apparatus" because it owes you not money, but data. 2:56 for the initial shakedown.

Just give me some admin access to clean up your inventory classification system.

Lot more online ordering portals for distributors these days, and they are always a mess to browse.

Glunz, Lakeshore, and CBS have a lot of minor classification errors. Let me take care of most of it for you.

It's not very silly and it's a very tasty pour.
Bier Reise '98 / Matsuo style Pour Twice.
Orion, The Draft, ice chilled.
Micro Matic Swing Lever
Music: 海風に揺れて by Chill City Pop

Having never seen Orion /The Draft/ in keg format, it was at Glunz inventory for the first time I've seen, and here it is on Sharp pour.

One of my top favorite things is talking about how beer is and can be poured. Evan's 2018 GBH article is a permanent bookmark, one of my first English reads regarding Czech pour service.

Why do I bother printing anything. This took 20 minutes.

The silly Japanese style business calendar for May!

Rice probably has only a handful left. The CMB might have to be replaced by the Debitap, with the Lukr Freedom Baroko getting back on next to it. Haven't been able to settle on what to serve Hopewell Sharp from. Maybe sneak a Maibock on!

of note, Bohemian-Style Pilsener
🥇Bay Pilsner/Yokohama Bay/Japan
🥈Pilsner Rešov/Equal Parts/Houston TX
🥉Minoh Beer Pilsner/Minoh/Japan

medals in giant comps can often be silly, but the mind sees patterns.

2025 World Beer Cup: IL medals
🥇Extra Medium Mild/White Oak/Mild or Bitter
🥈Bel Ringer/9th Hour/Tripel
🥈Der Reisende/Adams St/Stout Expt
🥈Disarm/Go/NA Hoppy
🥉Really Decent/Werk Force/Light Lager
🥉For 4/Brothership/Hazy DIPA
🥉New School/Go/NA Specialty [Sour]
🥉Deth's Tar/Rev/BA Strong Stout

We're doing special Beer Stand Beermiscuous at the Lakeview cafe, Sat May 5, 6pm to close.

Hopewell Sharp.

I have a lot of Japanese style beer service content in prepping for next week's event at Beermiscuous Lakeview.