Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Mother of All Recaps

The Black Belgian Wheat turned out awesome. The color is a deep brown/ black with a dark tan head. The aroma is fruity, spicy, and slightly phenolic from the yeast. The flavor is deceptive in that you expect it to be roasty, but it's not. What you get spicy wheat beer flavor and when it warms up a little you get a lot of dark, dried fruit flavors and some licorice. The finish was nice and dry with a hint of bitterness.
It's already gone, so if you didn't get any, too bad for you. No, not really. It was so well received that we are going to brew a big batch of it in a few weeks, so you'll get your chance to try it.

Right now we're working on dressing up some of our regular beers just to make something fun and interesting for summer. We're going to be putting on the Chipotle Chocolate Porter, Blackberry Chocolate Porter, and when this batch of Golden ale is done, we'll have Raspberry Golden.

During our tasting event we brewed wheat based pale ale with wheat (obviously), pale, Ashburne, and caramel 20. Hopped and dry hopped with nothing but Amarillo, and fermented warm with Wyeast 2112 Steam yeast. Its name is Aromarillo, and it will be awesome. Look for it next week.

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