News of the brew
May. 20th, 2011 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderplanetHooray! We are once again over 100 gallons of beer in the house! Now I don't feel like we're "behind" anymore.
Tonight we made Liberty Cream Ale for the Minicon Room Party at CONvergence. It's the same beer that was served at the Marscon room party.
Here are the beers that will be served, with names that might be modified for steampunkyness effects. Steampunk!
Liberty Cream Ale - 4.3% Alcohol by Volume - A light bodied cream ale, popular with a broad range of beer drinkers. A pure ale taste that's not hoppy or bitter, but still not watery.
Admiral Akbeer's "It's A Trappist" - 5.6% Alcohol by Volume - Floral Hops with fruity undertones complement the sweet malts, which are further enhanced with Belgian Candi Sugar during fermenting. This is a classic style Belgian Ale first brewed in the cistercian monasteries of France, and later perfected on Mon Calamari.
Taddy Porter - 5.8% Alcohol by Volume - This black, full bodied porter is sold in England as a Strong Stout, and was the first style of commercially produced beer. It was originally named for steam train porters who were its servers and consumers, and is therefore steampunkish. The recipe includes Irish Moss, Molasses and Herbal hops. The result is a complex, flavorful beer.
One light, one sweet and one dark beer. All three are vegan.
The convention theme is "steampunk." I was going to call the Liberty Cream Ale "Clockwork Cream Ale," but then I decided that I don't like steampunk that much, and the Porter is steampunkish enough on it's own. If anyone involves with the party changes the name, I don't care - but I don't want to call it something stupid in this forum.
On to the issue of hard lemonade! There will be a hard lemonade for the Minicon room party. We're making a recipe based on this recipe and this recipe, except with Sorghum Syrup instead of Malt Extract. The hard lemonade is also vegan, and it has a potential alcohol content around 9.3%. I plan to stop the fermenting process at about 6-7% alcohol by volume. The hard lemonade will remain uncarbonated. Therefore! - It should be something tolerable to people who are sensitive to wheat, carbonation or both. I always feel bad for people who have to sit around beverageless while everyone else enjoys something refreshing.
Still Mead also works, but it takes two years to make. Also, mead tastes like mead.
I think that a wheat free/gluten free, uncarbonated beverage covers most of the people who normally don't get to enjoy party beverages. It doesn't count as kosher because there is corn syrup in the lemonade base.
Blog/Bhlog is also not kosher, I've never seen anyone complain about that. I think it is a minor concern, especially in July.
Tonight we made Liberty Cream Ale for the Minicon Room Party at CONvergence. It's the same beer that was served at the Marscon room party.
Here are the beers that will be served, with names that might be modified for steampunkyness effects. Steampunk!
Liberty Cream Ale - 4.3% Alcohol by Volume - A light bodied cream ale, popular with a broad range of beer drinkers. A pure ale taste that's not hoppy or bitter, but still not watery.
Admiral Akbeer's "It's A Trappist" - 5.6% Alcohol by Volume - Floral Hops with fruity undertones complement the sweet malts, which are further enhanced with Belgian Candi Sugar during fermenting. This is a classic style Belgian Ale first brewed in the cistercian monasteries of France, and later perfected on Mon Calamari.
Taddy Porter - 5.8% Alcohol by Volume - This black, full bodied porter is sold in England as a Strong Stout, and was the first style of commercially produced beer. It was originally named for steam train porters who were its servers and consumers, and is therefore steampunkish. The recipe includes Irish Moss, Molasses and Herbal hops. The result is a complex, flavorful beer.
One light, one sweet and one dark beer. All three are vegan.
The convention theme is "steampunk." I was going to call the Liberty Cream Ale "Clockwork Cream Ale," but then I decided that I don't like steampunk that much, and the Porter is steampunkish enough on it's own. If anyone involves with the party changes the name, I don't care - but I don't want to call it something stupid in this forum.
On to the issue of hard lemonade! There will be a hard lemonade for the Minicon room party. We're making a recipe based on this recipe and this recipe, except with Sorghum Syrup instead of Malt Extract. The hard lemonade is also vegan, and it has a potential alcohol content around 9.3%. I plan to stop the fermenting process at about 6-7% alcohol by volume. The hard lemonade will remain uncarbonated. Therefore! - It should be something tolerable to people who are sensitive to wheat, carbonation or both. I always feel bad for people who have to sit around beverageless while everyone else enjoys something refreshing.
Still Mead also works, but it takes two years to make. Also, mead tastes like mead.
I think that a wheat free/gluten free, uncarbonated beverage covers most of the people who normally don't get to enjoy party beverages. It doesn't count as kosher because there is corn syrup in the lemonade base.
Blog/Bhlog is also not kosher, I've never seen anyone complain about that. I think it is a minor concern, especially in July.
