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While the majority of beers you’ll encounter are carbonated with carbon dioxide, some are carbonated with nitrogen gas, or nitro for short. Nitrogen gas creates smaller bubbles than CO2, imparting a smooth, creamy mouthfeel in beers like Guinness Draught, perhaps the most well-known nitro beer in the world.
American craft breweries have since adopted the nitro technology Guinness invented back in 1959, incorporating their own creativity in the beers. 3 Sheeps Brewing from Sheboygan, WI was one of the first American craft breweries to successfully bottle a full line of nitro beers, led by their delicious Cashmere Hammer Nitro Stout.
And while nitro beers are most commonly associated with stouts, Founders Brewing adds nitrogen to Rubaeus, their raspberry ale, making for delightful treat — almost like drinking liquid jam. Our Training and Education Manager, Chris Kolodziej, shares his thoughts on nitro beers in our next video below.
For the first four years of their existence, 3 Sheeps Brewing had been producing world-class beers for Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota on a 10 barrel system in the back of a sock factory. Not exactly glamorous. But as demand for their beers rose, they eventually outgrew the space and last year opened a new facility in a former Coca-cola bottling plant — more than doubling their previous brewing capacity. Read More
This year, we celebrated Halloween in style. 3 Sheeps Brewing Company joined us at The Logan Theatre for a zombie-sheep themed beer party, complete with a costume contest, raffle, plenty of beer and a screening of the zombie sheep movie, Black Sheep.
3 Sheeps even made a custom beer for the night called Violence of the Lambs, a blood red amber ale with pomegranates. Read More
Walking into the grain room at 3 Sheeps Brewing Co. is, like with most things at Grant Pauly’s Wisconsin brewery, slightly out of the ordinary.
“We’re on the third floor, which is unusual for a grain room because of the weight but this building is an old sock factory and they used to keep the equipment up here,” Grant explains, “The floor boards are about 10 inches thick.”
Thank you to everyone who joined us at WhirlyBall for the MSC Craft Beer Party with 3 Sheeps Brewing! We hope you all had a blast (we certainly did) and learned something about one of our favorite breweries. Check out our photos from the party below, and then use our BEER FINDER to find 3 Sheeps Brewing Co’s beer near you! Read More
