Month: April 2012

Profiled by Ken Carman for professorgoodales.net

Nice pillow head with tad rock: white. Nice garnet highlights, SRM about 28. Nice malt nose: dark malts with a slight sweet tang. Body light for Porter. Some Black Patent-like sense: slight, in mouthfeel. Hops: slight bitter not much else. Taste: malt with some bitter but kind of light for a Porter. I assume Robust, and definitely not a Brown. A Brown Porter would still be maltier and often a bit sweeter than this slight hint. Certainly no Black Patent sense.

This really needs more complex malt profile and heavier body. More like a Brown Ale with Black Patent. A beer looking for a style.

Profiled by Ken Carman for professorgoodales.net

I have had this before and been impressed. I understand that most quaffers won’t recognize this as “beer,” but to me Geuze… or “Gueuze…” can be the fine wine of beer: at least the lightest of wines. Highly carbonated with a carbonic, yet slightly acidic tingle. Hazy, medium yellow with a big rocky head that fades fast. Malts background and pilsner-ish.

Nose and taste is horse blanket and rhubarb: mostly rhubarb. For my palate the more horse blanket/barnyard renditions of the style are not all that pleasurable: though certainly suited to the style. This has just the right balance: especially for those who may hesitate when they read “barnyard” or “horse blanket” in style guidelines. No hops noticed, but not expected. With this type of Belgian or Flemish (about the same, but not quite.) beer it’s all about the yeast. If anyone thinks yeast simply produces alcohol they need to be introduced to Geuze and Sours.

Slight heavy to moderately heavy mouthfeel. Nice sour tang. If you want to offer a unique experience in beer world to your less experienced friends, this is it.

Written by Leslie Gevirtz for Reuters

(Reuters) – The Dutch drank their way to victory and independence from Spain in 1648 through the taxes they paid on beer, according to a report in the April issue of the Journal of American Association of Wine Economists.

Economists Koen Deconinck of the University of Leuven and Johann Swinnen of Stanford University wrote that taxes on beer “played a crucial role in financing the revolt … (and) were the single largest revenue source” for the outnumbered and outgunned Dutch, who were facing “the mightiest empire on earth.”
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Written by Sean Z. Paxton at thebrewingnetwork.com

 

Oh yeah! The classic buttermilk fried chicken gone to the hopheads! By making a green buttermilk full of goodness, the chicken is also seasoned and begging for a beer, as both hops and malt are used in this recipe.

Makes: 1 chicken, 8 piece

Ingredients:

1 free range organic chicken, washed, dried
1 quart buttermilk
1 bunch fresh thyme , washed, dried and chopped
1 bunch Italian leaf parsley, washed, dried and chopped
6 cloves garlic, peeled
2 tablespoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon black pepper
4 tablespoons Amarillo hop powder*

2 cups all-purpose flour, unbleached
1 cup malt flour (favorite brewers malt ground fine into a powder)
2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons Amarillo hop powder*

6-10 cups vegetable shortening or lard

Directions:
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