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The Cocktail Hour: Ales For The Holidays

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Pictured inward a higher identify are the 2 ales we're tasting today. On the left is Trader Joe's 2010 Vintage Ale.  Each twelvemonth the pop grocery shop chain commissions a novel ale for the holidays.  This year's version is a Belgian fashion chocolate-brown ale produced past times Unibroue inward Canada. To the correct is Zoetzuur, a Flemish sour ale. You've actually got to accept a gustation for this type of Belgian ale. Letty does. She loves them as well as wishes they were to a greater extent than widely available hither inward the states. I don't. I'm trying to prepare a gustation but as well as hence far the varieties I've tried are either cloyingly sugariness (like Framboise) or tastes similar vinegar. Watch the Video! Zoetzuur is brewed past times De Proefbrouweri inward Lochristi-Hijfte, Belgium.  It's a small-scale town close the Dutch border, due north of Gent.  The ale clocks inward at 7% alcohol as well as is served inwar...

The Cocktail Hour...Strange Brew - The Finale!

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It's fourth dimension to twine upwardly this trilogy. I made it my projection to brew a batch of Belgian mode dubbel ale. Watch the Video! I brewed too fermented it inwards Part 1 . I filtered too bottled it inwards Part 2 . Now it's fourth dimension to come across how I did. Tim joins me every bit nosotros cleft opened upwardly a brace of bottles on New Year's Eve. It tasted very, rattling proficient but... You'll postulate to sentry the video to come across how it turned out. Cheers! Darryl Copyright 2013 - Darryl Musick All Rights Reserved

The Cocktail Hour: Foreign Brew - Purpose 2

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In purpose 1, nosotros brewed our Belgian Dubbel Ale.  It's been 2 weeks, fermentation is complete, in addition to it's fourth dimension to bottle. Watch the Video! We must transfer the completed beer into simply about other tank, mainly to filter out the bits of dead yeast in addition to other bits, in addition to thence it's simply a affair of pouring into bottles, pressing caps on them, in addition to waiting. It'll accept simply about other duo of weeks of bottle aging in addition to conditioning until it's laid upwardly to drink. At that time, Tim in addition to I volition gustation exam them for you.  Cheers! Darryl Copyright 2012 - Darryl Musick All Rights Reserved.