Our Q&A with Tom Coughlin, the brewer behind the Hohenadel lager: How did you get started in home brewing? It took place in stages and began back in the 1980s. Stage I: Craft beer awareness (1980s) In the 1980s I dropped out of college and I worked at a neon sign shop that did a lot of work for beer companies. At that time, the people who were the reps for Anheuser Busch all knew that craft brew would arrive one day, and then the party would...
DATE: Wednesday 6/18/14 LOCATION: Princeton Junction, NJ BREWER: Tom Coughlin PHOTOS: Steve Fillmore What is a "pilot" batch, and why brew one? Pilot brewing is simply brewing a small sample to "test drive" an unfamiliar yeast, hop, grain, process, etc. It can also grow specific yeast. In our case, the yeast will be used in the Hohenadel lager this fall. For our beer, brewer Tom Coughlin is using the dominant...
This October, Hohenadel House is going back to its roots! There won’t be horse-drawn carriages or gas lamps in the streets, but we’re bringing back the best of that old world: classic Bavarian lager beer that made the Falls famous. Oh, and we figure an old time orchestra sound by the Falls’ own Frank Sinatra, sung in the Hohenadel ballroom, wouldn’t hurt either. Goal: To brew a pre-prohibition lager that will approximate those brewed in...
