Berliner Weisse:
The beer Napoleon called the champagne of the north. Wheat beer with a modest gravity and sour punch (thank to lactobacillus)
Wit:
One of my favorite beers - Hazy, Wheaty, Citrusy.
Lets see if I can actually get them done before summer is over.
12 May 2009
Brew like a monk.
I read this book Brew Like a Monk. It is a good beer history type book and as such doesn't have complete recipes. May or may not be interesting to those who don't brew beer. I liked it. I have never drank a Trappist ale, but I bought one the other day and will have had one in the future.
Added the oak, hope it ain't broke
I went to go see how the pellicle was doing and found my stopper and airlock had popped out of the carboy (5/7/09). That was lame. I am not all that worried because this beer style needs some oxygen during the long secondary fermentation, but still it was lame. Since I had not added any oak, I decided this was the time to do so. I took 0.7 ounces of oak chips, boiled them in 3 changes of water to reduce there oakiness (i.e. tannins) and added them to the carboy and sealed it back up. Pretty sweet huh?
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