Served the Highlands Heather ale for First Friday ArtWalk this month. I might make it again to work on the recipe again as a good Summer mild but I am not sure it's my style of beer.

It was great talking to people about the beer and it was fairly popular, I brought less than a 10% of it home. We did have to contend with a last minute problem of a valve that would not lock down. Thanks to a coworker who showed up with a spare keg and he preformed an onsite operation and replaced the damaged equipment. The rest of the night went very smoothly.

For an experiment of a beer that I was working with no experience base, nor recipe it worked out well. I wanted kindof a Scottish version of a mild beer with heather as an influence and it's what I got. The heather was used for the most part in place of hops, changing the character of the beer completely. The consensus was that next time to increase the amount of the heather flower tips to increase their character in the beer, but with an unknown ingredient it's always easier to start low then build in future versions of the beer then over use the ingredient and make it unpalatable. That said I may add a specialty malt like Carapils to add to the body of the beer.

All and all the night and the beer was a success, but I can and will make it better.