Whiskey in beer brewing?

Paul Kruzycki a écrit :

A few years back, we had a truly vile brew called Löwenbräu Celtic Whisky Brew in this country (Switzerland). Twas a dreadful amber sweetish lager with a few percent of whisky added.

It was meant to emulate some well-known "whisky malt beers" such as Adelscott, Wel Scotch, Mortimer , Waverley (all French), and Eggenberger Nessie (Austrian). These beers are sickly sweet amber strong lagers, with peat-smoked malt added to the gist, and no proper hopping to speak of. Yuk.

On the other hand, at least one italian micro (Baladin) is said to brew one of its beers (Elixir) using a whisky yeast strain. The beer itsef certainly is whiskey-ish, nd a lot better that all those yucky whisky-flavoured lagers.

Cheers !

Laurent

Hi Paul

Try asking on .

Somebody there is almost certain to have tried doing it.

Regards KGB

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Try contacting Justin 'Buster' Grant, Head Brewer at the Breconshire Brewery, who recently (1st March) brewed a stunning draught 'Whisky' Beer called 'Spirit of the Dragon' at 5.4 % abv.

Either ... Telephone : 01874 623 731

Write ... The Breconshire Brewery Ffrwdgrech Industrial Estate, Brecon, Powys, LD3 8LA

or visit their website ...

We recently joined in a brewery visit there (Apr 2nd) courtesy of Cardiff Camra Branch, and all their other Beers available there on the day - (and I might add, in the local Brecon pubs) - were excellent !

Cheers ...

Dave The Sec-RAT-ary Real Ale Tasting Society - R.A.T.S. ®

I seem to remember a similar post a while ago quoting Mr P, about an imminent cider production venture. The idea was that we helped you out and you sent us some cider for our trouble. Nothing's arrived so far.

Not that I'm a bitter nitpicking person with a selective memory or anything.

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I recently read an article on this very subject. I think it was in What's Brewing - probably the latest issue. The article mentioned a couple of distilleries in Scotland that also brew and breweries that also distill, and indeed some beers that are flavoured with whisky. Details are hazy in my mind, but you could try to look up recent issues of WB. If it wasn't What's Brewing, I can't remember where I read it.

Whisky, of course, is little more than distilled beer without the hops. I think it was someone in this newsgroup that made this point recently.

d.

It is in the latest (April 2005) issue but it was in Beer rather than in WB itself.

IIRC , if it's whiskey it's from Ireland , if it's whisky it's from Scotland.

Usually, if it's spelled "whisky," yes, it's Scottish. But "whiskey" comes from more than just Ireland: bourbon is an American whiskey, and Canadians are also known for their whiskey.

Apropos of this, it might be worth noting that American microbreweries have taken to making ales flavo(u)red in bourbon casks. The results can be quite extraordinary; in some cases, even overwhelming.

Hi,

I did indeed drop into the group to ask for assistance a while ago, and received some interesting (and useful) responses - our first batch of cider for Nanny Ogg's Scumble was produced following some of this advice.

We sent sample bottles to a number of people who responded, and I thought we'd managed to get all of them - perhaps some who just posted to the newsgroup were missed from this process?

Anyway, if you, or anyone else who offered advice was missed can contact me by e-mail (attaching a copy of your post) I'd be happy to send you a bottle of cider or the new beer when we have them. The first batch of our cider has sold out (we have a couple of bottles knocking around the place), but we are at the time of year when fermenting and bottling takes place, so will be getting it back in stock soon.

If anyone reading this newsgroup happens to be involved in the CAMRA group covering Wincanton I'd love to hear from them. We are hoping to hold a Discworld Beer festival in December, in Wincanton and to have all our beers available in cast and bottled form along with some of the other beers produced by our suppliers and other local breweries.

Anyone in the area interested in helping can contact me via e-mail.

Thanks again for the great beer + Whiskey suggestions - it looks like I have some people to talk to....

-- Paul Kruzycki

Thanks for that Paul. I wasn't being that serious, and I'm sure what little information I provided wouldn't have helped you a great deal. I'll keep an eye out for your beer and cider though.