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.
Awesome!
Some days I wish they’d bring back Prohibition. That would REALLY get my liquor & wine-making creative juices flowing!
It’s no fun being subversive when they LET you... :)
Lousy name for an interesting beer.
Suggesions:
Brew 19
Blatz’ Special
Old Famous Reliable
Haven't brewed in awhile, mostly due to working so far from where my little kit is set up. No supplies locally...until last night, when I learned that a local hardware store has decided to get into the biz. Mmmm...fresh hops...
The best lager I have ever tasted is
called:
PERONI Nastro Azzurro
Tastes like fine champagne if that makes any sense.
Kind of pricey though.
NOW we’re talkin’ BEER!
I forgot to look to see if my local HBS has either of these hops in stock when I was in earlier. Tonight’s “home improvement” project is an all-Chinook recipe, so I had my head in the American Hops end of the fridge.
My first overseas assignment (1978-1981)was to a radar sight in North Germany that was in the middle of nowhere (Hessisch Oldendorf Air Station). There were very few Americans around, so we were forced to learn the language and live like Germans. It was a little rough at first, but the Germans really took us in and helped us learn the language and customs. It turned out to be one of the greatest experiences of my life.
If you think that's bad, try Sam Adam's Noble Pils. Five different types of hops.
Around here it was people picking up the newspaper, reading “End of Prohibition”, and saying, “what’s ‘prohibition’?” :’)
Anymore, the U.S.is literally crawling with breweries that are equal to or superior to anything the Euros can make. And there's probably one near you.
BEER - Think global. Drink local!
Even better, that wave is now extending to distilleries.
Office coffee is just bland. Starbucks blows.
That really depends on the style. Americans definitely make the best hoppy ales--but subtler more delicate lagers are a different animal.
I cannot say I've had too many excellent German or Czech style pilsners made in the USA. It's not fair to compare them to the European stuff shipped here either, as pilsner spoils quickly, and the Germans or Czechs never drink anything more than a couple weeks old; German or Czech beer you get here is nearly guaranteed to be at least 6 weeks old from the hold of a ship before you drink it--and, the big brewers use dumbed down beer recipes for import to the states too.
Bottom line, pilsner DRANK IN Germany or Czech (or Slovakia for that matter) is amazingly good--and few American micro-brewers can match them for that particular style. If you ask a German or a Czech person in the USA too, they'll tell you the same thing.
Sam Adams latest "Noble Pils" though may well have done it, IMHO.
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