Posted on 03/18/2010 8:04:22 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
MillerCoors will test a new full-bodied beer based on an unexpectedly unearthed pre-Prohibition recipe in select historic bars in Chicago, possibly including Lottie's in Bucktown, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
The beer, available only on draft starting in May, is called Batch 19 to signify the year that Prohibition was ratified, 1919, said MillerCoors spokesman Peter Marino. It took effect in 1920.
Marino said Keith Villa, a master brewer at MillerCoors' brewery in Golden, Colo., discovered the recipe six years ago when Villa helped rescue archival records from the brewery's flooded basement. Villa was intrigued by the recipes that the company used before Prohibition and decided to make them. Batch 19 contains 5.5 percent alcohol by volume [yay!], compared with Miller Lite or Bud Lite's 4 percent to 5 percent, and is made with two types of hops rarely used today -- strisselspalt and hersbrucker.
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Ahh,, can’t wait.
I don’t drink a lot of American beer anymore. Most of it doesn’t have much taste compared to foreign beers. I drink Sam Adams in the winter; Landshark or Corona in the summer. I love trying microbrews. Hopefully this new beer will have some taste.
Sounds interesting. I’ll have to ask a friend of mine who works there to see if I can get a preview.
Methanol?
I'll give this brew a couple evenings of my time, and see if it cleans the carbon off the ol' fuel injectors.
Heeeeeey! It’s called a secret ingredient for a reason!
Damn, Sergeant Major. Your statement is terribly wrong in this day and age. It was true 20 years ago, but not any more...as even your own statement about micro brews alludes to.
This is the golden age for beer in the U.S. It is exactly because of the title wave of mirco brews that we have a plethora of wonderful beers to chose from these days.
Perhaps you meant in terms of national brands there is not much taste. But as some micro brews make their way into the mainstream even that does not hold true these days.
BTW....you don’t happen to live in Utah by any chance, do you. :-)
I just discovered a good beer you would like, Ziegenbach....not sure if it is only here in TX but it has nice flavor.....
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http://www.midwestsupplies.com/french-strisselspalt-pellet-hops.html
French Strisselspalt Pellet Hops
Considered a good aroma hop with medium intensity and pleasant hoppiness similar to Hersbrucker, often preferred over it. Used for Pilsners, Lagers and Wheat beers.
Hersbrucker Pellet Hops
A fine German hop, not quite a “noble” hop, but close. Mild to semi-strong, pleasant and hoppy. A good choice for bittering, flavor and/or aroma in all German ales or lagers.
I’m afraid this brew might turn out to be over-hopped . . . but I’ll cut it some slack if that’s what the recipe calls for . . . .
I remember trying those Ziegenbachs around 1997 or so, very nice beer. In TX too, so don’t really know.
Yuengling. Tastes a lot like beer.
Yep. I like a lot of the microbrews available locally. I think bud and miller taste like water.
A good micro brew available in Pensacola and Fort Walton is available at McGuires Pub. It's their pale ale. Unfortunately you can't get it anywhere else - only in the pub.
Most of the pre-prohibition beer was what we would call “micros” today. Emergence form prohibition is what created national beer.. bland, tasteless, white bread, boring. It wasn’t until deregulation when home brewing and micros re-emerged that real beer re-appeared – no adjuncts and hoppy goodness.
But, you have never tasted beer that is better the fresh 6 week out of ferment, conditioned, unpasteurized beer, when it is at its peak of flavor. Homebrewing leads to some bad results, but if you don’t get too crazy with your recipe, it is almost always just the way you want it and have never tasted it before.
The NappyOne
I got spoiled when I was stationed in Germany for 6 years. Every little town had its own brewery and I tried as many as I could and never found one that I didn’t like. Germany actually has a federal law government what ingredients you can put in beer. Water, yeast, grain, and hops. No fruity flavors. The beer tastes like beer.
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