NYC Resistor at Pride of Brooklyn

This past weekend NYC Resistor, for the first time ever, entered a homebrew competition. We went to the Pride of Brooklyn event held at Littlefield in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn ( not far from NYC Resistor ). And it was AWESOME.

Read on for more info about the beer, future events, and other fun stuff.

As I may have mentioned, several NYC Resistor members do occasionally homebrew.

We have several projects in that area developing. Travis and Myself have been very active in trying to get out into the local NYC brewing scene and share ideas. It’s been very enjoyable.

Pride of Brooklyn was a wonderful way to celebrate the onset of some REAL spring weather. It’s been a long winter, and this past weekend was a much welcomed reprieve. The event also happened to occur on April 12th. Yuri’s Night. Which I guess made it that much more special. I hope you all had a terrific Yuri’s Night as well. We certainly did along with 24 other homebrewers.

For the event we entered a Scottish style of beer known as a wee heavy. We named ours ‘weesistor heavy’, because we know that puns are the way to people’s hearts. Our version was somewhat sweet for a beer, with a rich red color, and a smoky peaty aftertaste. We had an OG of 1.064 and an FG of 1.012 resulting in an ABV of about 7% and a very low IBU. It was very well received, and was several people informed us that it was unlike any other beer there. Several folks thought it tasted a bit like a single malt scotch of beers. That was the peated malt steeped in the keg at the end.

We’d like to thank the wonderful folks at Pride of Brooklyn for putting together the event. It was a blast. And they really went out of their way to make the event memorable for the brewers as well as the folks learning to love results of homebrewed beer. So from us, thanks! We had a blast and it was worth all 5 gallons. I’d also like to give a shout out to all the other homebrewers at the event. Everyone was amazing, and their beers were almost as amazing as they were. Frankly, I’ve never been in one place with that much delicious beer on tap in my life. And I assure you I’ve been around the proverbial block.

We’ll be bringing another beer out shortly, and I’ll post about that too. But look forward to seeing us at the Food and Book Fair’s Pop Up pub at the Wythe hotel in Williamsburg on Sunday April 27th. We expect great things.

A photo of our beer.

The Recipe for the beer is on our GitHub here: Weesistor Heavy

The STL files for 3D printing our keg wrap ( including a blank front plate ) are here:
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