Time heals all beer?
In March, I made a helles that was drinkable but had way too much diactyl (a buttery taste which is a flaw from incomplete fermentaion). I asked around for advise, but no one seemed to have a solution for my beer. So it languished at the back of my fridge. Until...
Sarah's brother Andrew can by in September. He asked if I had any homebrew, and the only thing that was ready was the helles. He tried it and declared that it was quite good. Confused, I sampled it. The beer was good. So I entered it as an Octoberfest in the CBS Spooky Brew Review. And it took a second place.
Sarah's brother Andrew can by in September. He asked if I had any homebrew, and the only thing that was ready was the helles. He tried it and declared that it was quite good. Confused, I sampled it. The beer was good. So I entered it as an Octoberfest in the CBS Spooky Brew Review. And it took a second place.
posted by Peter Young @ 9:02 PM
3 Comments:
At 5:58 AM,
Paul said…
Nothing weird here, Pete. Your back-from-the-dead zombie beer won the Spooky competition. Naturally, it had the edge on all the still living beers that other brewers submitted.
At 10:26 AM,
Philip Young said…
So when you drink it, you turn into a zombie. But the twist is instead of a typical brain-eating zombie, you turn into a beer-drinking zombie. i can just see it now; all those zombies shambling down the street moaning "beeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr".
At 3:36 AM,
Jason said…
Phil, in the right neighborhoods, you can already see those people/zombies!
Pete, congratulations on winning, it's great that the beer 'came back' (I wonder if this might end up being a new method of brewing?) But I do wonder what it means when your beer has to go skunky in order to be drinkable? (I'm sure that you refrained from putting a 'born on' date on your entry!)
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