CBR 114: Wisconsin Spotlight
Fri, 2008-05-09 22:14 — jbearer
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- Artist: Craft Beer Radio
- Title: CBR 114: Wisconsin Spotlight
- Album: Craft Beer Radio
- Year: 2008
- Length: 66:23 minutes (22.8 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 48Kbps (CBR)
We have 2 listeners send us a Wisconsin Spotlight.
Beer:
- Capital Brewing Maibock
- New Glarus - Snoshoe
- New Glarus - Unplugged, Imperial Weizen
- O'so Brewing Hopdinger
- Tyranena - Devil Over a Barrel
- Leinekugles - Big Eddy
Rankings:
- Greg 1.Tyranena 2. Capital Brewing 3. South Shore, 4. Big Eddy, 5. Unplugged, 6. Snow Shoe, 7.O'so
- Jeff - 1.Tyranena, 2. Unplugged, 3. Big Eddy, 4. Capital Brewing, 5. South Shore, 6. Snow Shoe, 7. O'so
South Shore Rode's Scolar Stout
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Comments
WI beers
Doh! Sorry about the O'so guys. I tried to send an email to pull it from the show but I don't think I did it in time. I was hoping to give a little press to a new, little brewery... something tells me that "rotten apple dipped in plastic" is not the kind of press they are looking for.
On the Tyranena beer. I'm glad you had the same reaction to the aroma that I did. I was doing the same thing as I sampled it at the brewery. Just a big smile and a feeling that I should be telling everyone else there that if they chose anything else that it was a mistake. The other thing is about the bourbon character. Comparing what you two found, what Brandon and I found, and the reviews on BA I am starting to think that there may be bourbon tasters and non-tasters because I got a really strong bourbon character.
Budweiser and Watering Down Beer
Most of the big boys (maybe all of them, not sure) brew a high gravity beer for their main american lager, and then dilute them with water. This has many advantages for the big guys. It allows say a 400bbl system to become a 600-800 bbl system effectively, but it also corrects for high percentages of adjuncts. FAN (free amino nitrogen) is an important yeast nutrient, and it is severely lacking in adjuncts like corn and rice. A 1.040 beer that has 30-40% adjunct will have too low a level of FAN, and as a result diacetyl, acetaldehyde and various other products of an unhealthy fermentation can result. A 1.080 beer though has a higher level of FAN from the higher amount of base malt used, and this compensates for the loss in FAN from using adjuncts. So a 1.080 beer can actually ferment cleaner than a 1.040 beer when adjuncts are involved.