Last night our homebrew club got together for our monthly meeting and we judged the 16 Iron Brewer entries for round 1. My Fruity Pebbles beer somehow won and I’m moving to the 2nd round. I suppose it paid off for getting the fucking shaft on the last round because I landed coconut extract as the secret ingredient for round 2. The other dudes got stuck with peppermint extract, anise and blue agave syrup.
Seriously, peppermint extract? I feel for you guys that have to dick with this. If I pulled anise from the hat I probably would have forfeited since I can’t stand that shit.
The real coincidence here is that a coconut milk stout was next in line for me to brew if I lost the last round. Last month I stopped by Town Hall Brewery in Minneapolis and had a special release called “Three Hour Tour“. It’s a coconut milk stout that since my first drink has had me fiending to brew something similar. I’ve reached out to one of the brewers up there for recipe and process hints on their beer. Hopefully they’ll call back.
As for the Fruity Pebbles wheat beer, local St. Louisans are more than welcome to get some of this shit since I need to make room for beers that I’ll actually drink. Serg- I’m sending your shit out once it get’s bottled.
November 18, 2009 at 10:32 pm |
Send me a text if/when your available this weekend and I’ll come pick up some of that Fruity Pebbles joint for Sandy and myself.
November 20, 2009 at 12:37 pm |
If you can hold a couple bottles until next time we get over to St. Louis, we’d like to review it on Hoosier Beer Geek … if you’re interested. And I don’t forget I left this comment.
I mean, you don’t know me or anything, but it might be entertaining anyway.
November 20, 2009 at 12:46 pm |
I’ll set some aside for you Mike.
November 20, 2009 at 1:15 pm |
If you can hit me with an email we can get better coordinated… knights@hoosierbeergeek.com
I’ll be over that way in December.
November 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm |
dude you don’t fuck with anise? I got a recipe for blackbeans that’s awesome with that shit
November 25, 2009 at 1:56 pm |
If it tastes like black licorice I ain’t having it. We’ll see if I come around, though.
November 28, 2009 at 6:58 pm |
I’ll skip the fruity pebble beer, but thanks for letting me try it – I’m seriously wanting to take you up on the other stuff we talked about tho.
And – yeah, I agree anise is nasty
December 3, 2009 at 10:39 pm |
Well, I finally made things official and got myself a wordpress account. No more posts under JT… and no more abstract sunshine design as my “gravatar” (which I didn’t even know that was a word prior to creating an account).
And about the fruity pebble beer… nothing fruity about it at all. But, thanks for bringing some to try.
You were right about the Choc-Hazelnut beer. It is starting to sour. But, Sandy and I found that if you let it settle and warm to room temperature, the sour taste goes away.