AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Beersmith golden promise1/5/2024 You’ll need a few vegetables (your sides) to define complimentary and balancing flavors and aromas to push the recipe to new culinary heights! Will it be sweeter? Drier? Planning for this mouthfeel up front will help guide some of those grain choices, and the mash schedule when you reach brew-day.Ī lovely Coq au Vin can’t stand on it’s own of course. The ‘thickness’ of this sauce is much like the body of the beer. Perhaps you’re going to go darker with your chicken tonight and sauce with a red wine reduction… In our porter, we’ll pull out those roasted malts like a light or dark chocolate malt, or the bitter and roasty patent malt or we can turn to a Special B if you really want to play in those strong dried fruit flavors. Caras and Crystals provide that toffee and caramel feel, while amber malt offers a little sharpness and nutty feel. We then look to our specialty grains to set the bigger malt and flavor profile. For us – perhaps a nice Maris Otter as the base of a Porter. Will you have a lot of adjuncts that need additional help to convert? 6-Row might be the answer for those light rice adjuncts. You’ll need to decide on a Pale malt, simple 2-row, Pilsen, or perhaps something more flavourful – a Maris Otter or Golden Promise. Will your beer be malt forward and biscuity, or will it be light and hoppy? You need a base-malt that will form the backbone of your beer. Will it be Chicken or fish tonight? I’m thinking chicken.īuilding a beer is much like putting together a meal. When I’m comfortable with the plan – I’ll either look for a recipe to start from or more frequently, I’ll exercise my knowledge and start building a recipe that best represents the goal. Once I’ve settled on a style, I usually turn to the BJCP guidelines, generally accepted as the gold standard for clearly defining a typical beer. I look at the ingredients I have on hand and determine if there is something that needs to be finished off, or used before going stale – and then try to amend the style as needed. I choose a style that has appeal – not just momentary appeal, but enough appeal to justify making a few gallons. Let me share my process to building a beer. A recipe is just that – but you can probably handle more than a few meals without the book right? Beer isn’t any different. When considering the next beer for my pipeline, I follow a fairly consistent plan. I’m here to tell you – it’s a worthwhile endeavor.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |