We have recently had three guests to our beer classes and we have covered some really key concepts about beer. I wanted to thank everyone for coming including our guest speakers John Sliter, Jessica Cann and Marc Bayes.
In review, I wanted to offer a could of really useful links that can help you tie up loose ends in knowledge in these specific aspects of beer.
Belgian Beers and more about Belgian Beer
Beer and Food Chart
Beer and Food Pairing article
American Barleywine
British Barleywine
By the way! If you have any days off this Jan. 5-7, there will be a great beer festival in Vail, CO called Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines. Although this is no GABF, it is an incredible opportunity to enjoy and learn about beer in a beautiful setting and meet some really cool people. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to pose them in the comments.
BONUS: I will be planning a trip to a brewery and want to know what you think. I will post a survey on the side of the blog and that is how we will chose which brewery we will visit first.
Euclid Hall cleaning out the cellar in January
Euclid Hall declares January as Beer Month. We are going to reach into dark corners of our cellar and pull out all our best beers. Don't miss any of these amazing beers. Below is a schedule of tappings for the entire month. When the beers run out, they are gone and we will tap something else excellent. Let me know which days that you are most excited about.
Sorry this celebration won't start until the 2nd as we have some celebrating to do ourselves after an incredible year at Euclid.
- CLOSED.
- Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron
- Maredsous Triple
- The Bruery 4 Calling Birds
- Crooked Stave Chardonnay Good Glory
- Lost Abbey Angel Share
- Great Divide Espresso Yeti
- Avery Beast Grand Cru
- Dogfish Head 120 Min
- Avery Lilikoi Mahu
- Jolly Pumpkin Luciernaga Fire Fly
- New Belgium Ooh La La!
- Lost Abbey 10 Commandments
- Great Divide Old Ruffian Barleywine
- Avery Lilikoi Mahu
- Dogfish Head Bitches Brew
- St. Feuillien Saison
- Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza
- New Belgium Dunkelweiss
- Lost Abbey Angel Share
- Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti
- Avery Sacrilicious
- Dogfish Head Punkin
- Avery Double Dry Hopped duganA
- Sierra Nevada Life and Limb
- Avery Samael’s Ale
- New Belgium Ooh La La
- Russian River Supplication
- Avery Lilikoi Mahu
- Dogfish Olde School Barleywine
- Odell Bourbon Barrel Stout
What is Umami
We know pretty well the four main flavors that we can detect; salty, sweet, bitter, and sour. There is one other flavor that food scientists say we can detect and that is umami. What is Umami? Checkout this article from CraftBeer.com written by Charlie Papazian (founder of the Great American Beer Festival).
Noble Hops v. American Hops revisited
This article is going to be rich in links, please click on the links throughout the article to clarify and enlighten.
- I heard hops are related to marijuana, so what are hops anyway?
- Hops as explained by the Brewers Association on CraftBeer.com
"Hops
- A perennial climbing vine, also known by the Latin botanical name Humulus lupulus. The female plant yields flowers of soft-leaved pine-like cones (strobile) measuring about an inch in length. Only the female ripened flower is used for flavoring beer. Because hops reproduce through cuttings, the male plants are not cultivated and are even rooted out to prevent them from fertilizing the female plants, as the cones would become weighed-down with seeds. Seedless hops have a much higher bittering power than seeded. There are presently over one hundred varieties of hops cultivated around the world. Some of the best known are Brewer's Gold, Bullion, Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Cluster, Comet, Eroica, Fuggles, Galena, Goldings, Hallertau, Nugget, Northern Brewer, Perle, Saaz, Syrian Goldings, Tettnang, and Willamettes. Apart from contributing bitterness, hops impart aroma and flavor, and inhibit the growth of bacteria in wort and beer. Hops are added at the beginning (bittering hops), middle (flavoring hops), and end (aroma hops) of the boiling stage, or even later in the brewing process (dry hops). The addition of hops to beer dates from 7000-1000 BC; however hops were used to flavor beer in Pharaonic Egypt around 600 BC. They were cultivated in Germany as early as AD 300 and were used extensively in French and German monasteries in medieval times and gradually superseded other herbs and spices around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Prior to the use of hops, beer was flavored with herbs and spices such as juniper, coriander, cumin, nutmeg, oak leaves, lime blossoms, cloves, rosemary, gentian, gaussia, chamomile, and other herbs or spices."
- Noble Hops (Saaz, Hallertau, Tettnang, Spalt) are usually described as spicy, fragrant, floral, herbal, and sometimes medicinal or perfumey.
- American Hops ( Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, Columbus, Amarillo, and Willamette) are commonly higher in alpha acids ( which offer more bittering characteristics) and are usually described as citrusy, piney, bitter, and resinous.
- Want to take a more in depth look at Hops? Here is a link that should offer almost all the hop info you could want.
- Here is a refresher on BEER INGREDIENTS
Stone Brewing Co. is proud to announce its fifth and final 2011 collaboration beer. TheAlchemist / Ninkasi / Stone More Brown Than Black IPA will begin appearing on shelves December 19th.
Vital Statistics:
- Abv: 7.4%
- IBU: 80
- Malts: Maris Otter Pale, Light Munich, Carafa III Special Dark, and Cara-helles
- Hops: Super Galena hop extract for bittering. Nelson Sauvin and Delta pellets for flavor, and dry-hop is a blend of Citra and Galaxy.
More INFO
Join Great Divide and The Chocolate Therapist at StarBar for a fantastic Chocolate and Beer pairing event Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at 6 pm.
$20 will get you the 6 pairings listed below. Come out tonight and to experience some of Great Divides best beers paired with some incredible artisan chocolates. Not only will you get to taste some pairings that you may never have considered, you are going to learn a bit about why these pairings work and meet some great people in the food and beverage industry.
- Oak Aged Yeti with Dark Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Sea Salt bars
- Hoss Rye Lager with Dark Chocolate Ginger nibs
- Hibernation with Milk Chocolate Maple squares
- Hercules Imperial IPA with Orange Chocolate bars
- Grand Cru with Milk Chocolate Amaretto Cappuccino nibs
- Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti with Dark Chocolate Cayenne Pepper savories
Bull and Bush Christmas Beer Tasting
This beer tasting is one that is not to be missed. Eric will be pulling tons of bottles out of his cellar for this epic beer spread. The event will kick off at 1 pm on Saturday Dec. 10th. DO NOT miss your opportunity to taste up to 171 different speciality holiday ales.
Here is a list of what he will be offering tastes of, some of this is over 10 years old. This is probably the only place that you will see this much vintage beer being served in one place at one time.
Happy Holidays
Congratulations!
Congratulations to everyone that makes this possible!
Here is the article. Euclid Hall shows up on slide #4.
Cheers!
Lots of new beers at Euclid Hall for the Fall and Winter.
Checkout our latest beers and their descriptions. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
- Avec Les Bons Voeux
- Faster Bigger Better Bolder Dogfish Head/ The Bruery Collaboration
- Bligh's Barleywine Dry Dock Brewing Co.
- Czar Avery Brewing Co.
- Surrette Crooked Stave Brewing Co.
- Rumpkin Avery Brewing Co
- Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest Avery Brewing Co.
- Barrel Aged Yeti Great Divide Brewing Co.
- The Abyss Deschutes Brewery
- 4 Calling Birds
NOT YOUR DAD'S
This is not your dad's beer anymore and it is not his industry either. Here are a few great websites that will keep you up on what is happening in today's beer industry not only in Denver and at Euclid Hall, but also around the country and across the globe.
Where else are you drinking your beer in Denver? To encounter unique beers and great people you should also be visiting
- Colt and Gray
- Falling Rock Taphouse ( a little surely and slow to warm up, but great people when they get to know you.)
- StarBar
- My Brother's Bar (15th and Platte)
- Great Divide Brewery
- Ale House at Amato's
- Old Chicago on Colorado Boulevard or Market Street
- Yardhouse
- Le Grand Bistro
- Wazee Supper Club
- Fresh Craft (test yourself on the brown bags or hit up the reserves)
- Thin Man Tavern
- Vine Street Pub and Brewery map/directions
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