Topic Archives: Coriander
Hi-Wire Gose is brewery’s first in style & can
Hi-Wire Gose is the first in that style released by the Asheville, North Carolina brewery, as well as the brewery’s first can.
Gose is brewed with Himalayan pink sea salt, and coriander. The brewery’s house strain of Lactobacillus is responsible for the tart flavor of this beer.
…subtle notes of stone fruit and apricot in this hazy, sessionable sour wheat beer.
Hi-Wire Gose is available in 12 ounce cans and draft year-round.
Style: Gose (w/ Sea Salt, Coriander)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft. Year-round
Release: June, 2016
4.2% ABV
It’s Negroni Week. Meet New Belgium Negroni Beer
In case you aren’t hardcore into cocktails, it’s officially Negroni Week. June 6-12 are dedicated to the Negroni cocktail, made of just three ingredients – Campari, Gin, and Vermouth. (Despite celebrating booze, the week has great charitable intentions around the U.S.) New Belgium Negroni Beer, a new beer designed to taste like the cocktail, is making appearances this week as well.
Making a beer taste like a Negroni takes a little finesse. Gin is very herbal, Vermouth is a fortified wine infused with botanicals, campari follows suit. A beer to match that profile took a little more than hops and malts.
The base of New Belgium Negroni Beer starts simple, with pale malt and Nugget hops. From there, it’s gets weird/good. A host of ingredients are added, including Seville orange peel, mandarin orange juice, licorice, Indian coriander. That’s the end of list of things you might have heard of.
Next there’s horehound, an herb used in natural cough drops, Birchwood bark, which gives drinks like Birch Beer it’s herbal flavor, quassia root apparently tastes a bit like licorice and used for bitters, and cochineal. Cochineal is an insect. Yes, a bug. A creepy crawly.
Cochineal has historically been used to dye fabrics. The bug gives this beer a reddish tint. (Also, it’s basically harmless, alive, dead or drunk off it’s legs in your beer. ) All those ingredients help recreate gin and campari flavors.
From there, the beer is blended with New Belgium Blackberry Barleywine, and infused with toasted oak spirals in order to recreate the vermouth flavor.
New Belgium Negroni Beer is a draft only offering this week in select cities. Best best on finding this concoction? Check with your favorite cocktail spot.
Style: Herb/Spice Beer (w/ Orange Peel, Licorice, Coriander, Quassa Root, Cochineal, Birchwood Bark, Oak Aged.)
Hops: Nugget
Malt: Pale
Availability: Draft only. Select cities
Release: Week of June 6th, 2016
6% ABV, 7 IBUs
New Can: Oskar Blues Priscilla
Oskar Blues Priscilla launches nationwide this month. A new Belgian-style wheat beer.
Orange peel and coriander add nuance to this new release. Priscilla has been on tap for over 10 years at the original Oskar Blues Grill & Brew in Lyons, Colorado.
“Priscilla is a beer steeped in Oskar Blues’ music history,” said Chad Melis. “A longtime Oskar Blues favorite, we’ve decided its time to bring this amped up, electric brew from the basement and to the masses.”
Oskar Blues Priscilla is shipping nationwide this month. The brewery recently announced completing all 50 state distribution.
Style: Witbier (w/ Orange Peel, Coriander)
Availability: 12oz Cans, Draft.
Release: June, 2016
5.2% ABV
Jester King Fantome Del Rey (Texas Edition) release day
Jester King Fantome Del Rey, the Texas edition and follow up to the 2014 Fantome collaboration releases today.
The Texas edition of Jester King Fantome Del Rey is a blend of old and young barrel aged beer. (AKA Bière de Courage.) The older piece of this blend is the 2014 edition from 2014, brewed with barley, dark candi syrup, coriander, and black peppercorns. That beer was fermented in stainless steel with truffle honey before headed to oak barrels.
Sadly, thanks to restrictive beer laws in Jester’s home state, the beer couldn’t be released there.
In 2015, Jester King brewed the young edition of the collaboration, and blended it with the old.
Jester King Fantome Del Rey (Texas Edition) will be available by the glass, and to-go in 750 milliliter bottles when the tap room opens on May 6th, 2016.
Style: Farmhouse Ale (w/ Peppercorns, Candi Sugar, Coriander, Honey. Barrel Aged.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft. 9,000 bottles.
Release: 5/6/16
8.8% ABV, 19 IBUs
Brewery creates beer from belly button lint
One thing is certain, breweries can always find a new ingredient to put in beer. Fruit is pretty common of course, but then there are additions like scorpions, beard follicles, or even cotton candy. Now – belly button lint.
Australian based 7 Cent Brewery has created a new beer using a yeast strain found in belly button lint. That’s right. The stuff you pick out of that hole in the middle of your stomach. They call it – Belly Button Beer.
Brewers swabbed samples of the brewer’s belly buttons and swabbing the samples on agar plates. After incubation, the brewery found and selected yeast colonies, grew the yeast to pitchable quantities, and well. It’s beer time.
The base beer is a Belgian-style witbier (with license of course), brewed with orange zest and coriander. The belly button yeast gives the beer the Belgian character, with hints of clove and light banana. (And body soap?)
The orange zest and coriander seeds were used to help complement the yeast and a calculated amount of Riwaka and Mosaic hops were added to increase the citrus qualities and give it a refreshing hop kick. Four different grains were also used to add both body and complexity including: barley, wheat, oats and rye.
For those that might be a little grossed out right now, yeast is yeast, everywhere. Of course there is good and bad, and 7 Cent chose the good to make this beer happen.
I guess at the end of the day, what the hell? Why not? The bigger question is… would you drink it?
Style: Witbier (w/ Coriander, Orange Zest, Belly Button Yeast)
Availability: Australia
Jolly Pumpkin Clementina releases March 30th
Jolly Pumpkin Clementina Saison releases at all the brewery’s locations on March 30, 2016.
True to brewery form, Jolly Pumpkin Clementina is more than a saison. The beer features lime peel, yuzu peel, coriander, salt, and the headliner – Clementine. Sounds crazy in a good way? You’re probably right.
If you cut us, do we not bleed Clementines?
Jolly Pumpkin Clementina will be available in 750 milliliter bottles on March 30th. No distribution is planned at this time according to the brewery.
Style: Saison (w/ Clementines (Tangerine), Yuzu Peel, Lime Peel, Salt, Coriander.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles
Release: 3/30/16
5.5% ABV
Upslope Belgian Style Pale Ale returns for Spring
Upslope Belgian Style Pale Ale has made a return to shelves in February, 2016.
The recipe for Upslope Belgian Style Pale Ale requires a Trappist Ale yeast, coriander, and finish with a slight alcohol kick, of 7.5% ABV
Trappist Ale yeast provides fruity esters that are balanced out with coriander on the finish.
Upslope Belgian Style Pale Ale is a 12 ounce can offering, through Spring, 2016.
Style: Belgian-Style Pale (w/ Coriander)
Yeast: Trappist
Availability: 12oz Cans, Seasonal release
Return: February, 2016
7.5% ABV
