The Beer Tent

Two carboys are filled at home. One is a Belgian Saison that is nearly a year old, still has 6 months to go. The other is a sweet oatmeal porter, to be ready for deer camp.

Also, I found a four pack of sammi claus at a local store. That was major score!

 

Enjoying a six pack of Tuborg Gold Premium. Danish gold

 

Checking in

Well, been spending time in the Canadian northwest with a beer called something like kokanee. I think it's pronounced something like "cocaine-ee.". Good stuff, and a good enough training beer in preparation for deer camp. I was a little disappointed that mcdonalds in Canada did not offer gravy as a dipping sauce, but it was a nice trip nevertheless.

Two weeks out from deer camp, and a lot of cheese to buy...

 

Thinking Magic Hat #9 will be my beer of choice for the opener. I have a couple elk steaks coming as well.

Man, what I'd do for a coq au vin!

 

http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/archaeologist-beer-sowed-the-seeds-of-civilization/19709587


interesting research...

 

I will stick with Jack Daniels

 

ALAKAZAM - Ask and ye shall receive:


Simplest Homemade Beer - Eartheasy.com Solutions for Sustainable Living

A hundred web sites out there about home-brewing and the one I posted is about sustainable home brewing.

Beer is liquid bread. It is a way to preserve the nutritive content of grain without spoilage. It is also what the Europeans drank in the dim and misty days of yore because sanitation as we know it did not exist and the water was gag-a-maggot nasty and nearly deadly.

Small beers (low alcohol beer) drank throughout the day. Beer/Ale with meals.

Heck sailors even drank grog (water cut with RUM [original post said BRANDY - thanks for catching this ghrit]) because barreled water got nasty foul after a few weeks and grog was the only way to get enough fluids without getting the "hershey squirts" of death - aka Dysentery.

There is even a legendary substance (the straight regular mead I tried tasted nasty as the day is long) called Mead. Drink of the VIKING HORDE , JA!

 

My mistake I was thinking rum and typed Brandy...Fruedian slip perhaps? Modern Sailors still got a "grog" ration or rum "tot" in the 80's. - Allow me to be very specific as to this: this was not a USN sanctioned ration. It was at the discrepancy of the CO and came out of his fund.

 

I found out recently that gluten messes me up, but Budweiser makes a beer called Red Bridge which is made out of Sorghum and it tastes great.

 

The only fruit flavored beers I have ever tried were mediocre at best. Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat and a micro brew when I was in Denver called "Berry Beer" - this was back in the early 90's when the micro-brewing craze was kicking off well and good. I do not remember the brewery that made Berry Beer, but it was memorable if only in the fact that it really tasted like blackberries.

The berry/cherry flavors are a bit off putting, adding a sweet profile to beer I am not a fan of. Leave sweet to the liqueur crowd. I prefer bock beers over any other types. I'll drink a pilsner in a pinch. Pale ales, not my cup-o-tea. Hefty dark stouts are overbearing most times. Bock to me is the perfect marriage of flavors. Then again, I was raised drinking bock-style beers. Comes from the German side of the family. The Irish side preferred whiskey.