Making our ales is expensive and labor intensive. Throughout, we lavish large amounts of time and rare ingredients unthinkable from mass-market brewers. For instance, for every barrel of India Pale Ale we use two pounds of five varieties of hops, compared to the one-half pound usually used in commercial brews. Natural conditioning means natural carbonation.
Natural carbonation means more flavor.
No fancy methods-just barley malt hops, yeast and water, patiently watched over by a master craftsman, the brewer. At BridgePort, there is still time for our ale to gently mature and condition the old fashioned way, in the firkin. In fact, we've imported hundreds of these traditional brewing vessels in order to perfect this natural conditioning process. Firkin beer is all of these things. After primary fermentation, beer is racked from the tank to individual firkins.