Amber ale with actual amber

Nanannan · Sep 21, 2011

Anyone tried to brew some? I just bought a sack of raw amber, most of it is going into a a piece of furniture I'm building but I'm thinking of making the rest into an ale

. Its just tree sap after all, and in the olden days it was sometimes burnt as incense. Could be an epic beer.

cheezydemon3 · Sep 21, 2011

..............is it ingestable?

mthompson · Sep 21, 2011

I always thought Amber was fossilized; essentially a rock.

Not sure how you would use it?

Nanannan · Sep 21, 2011

Its actually very moldable if you boil it. I'm thinking boil it soft and then slice it into thin pieces and boil again until it dissolves completely.

mthompson · Sep 21, 2011

I stand corrected:

http://www.fullchisel.com/blog/?p=1085

.....Learn new stuff every day. Still not sure about its use in a beer.

MaltnHops · Sep 21, 2011

Definitely let us know how it turns out. I'd probably go with the less is more approach until you can get a better feel for how to use this stuff though.

cheezydemon3 · Sep 21, 2011

Tree sap.......

Hernando · Sep 21, 2011

Interesting. From what I've read you need to get temps up to at least 300 Degrees F. to completely dissolve some ambers and others up to 500F. (per the blog post posted by mthompson) So I am curious to see how you do this and even more curious to hear how it turns out. Best of luck with this.

organ · Sep 21, 2011

What attributes should one expect this to impart upon the beer?

mikeysab · Sep 21, 2011

Dinosaur DNA

organ · Sep 21, 2011

Bingo!

cheezydemon3 · Sep 21, 2011

You are supposed to fill the gaps in the dino DNA with frog DNA if I remember correctly.

JefeTheVol · Sep 21, 2011

cheezydemon3 said:
You are supposed to fill the gaps in the dino DNA with frog DNA if I remember correctly.

Bingo! Dy-No-Sawers!

mikeysab · Sep 21, 2011

Cant wait to see the pictures from the "Is my amber beer ruined?" thread of a hammered velociraptor zygote doing the backstroke in his ale pail.

bwomp313 · Sep 22, 2011

The world is only 10,000 years old. There were no dinosaurs. It's also flat. Dunno what you crazies are talking about.

C-Rider · Sep 22, 2011

bwomp313 said:
The world is only 10,000 years old. There were no dinosaurs. It's also flat. Dunno what you crazies are talking about.

I thought it was only 6000 years old. :tank:

Or was that the number of beers I have drunk?

petey_c · Sep 22, 2011

Jurassic Ale...?

Revvy · Sep 22, 2011

You probably won't be able to get anything useful from in unless you use a setup similar to Heston Blumenthal the molecular gastonomist.

He goes through a lot to distill a frnkinsence hydrosol for his Christmas meal where he sued Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.

solbes · Sep 22, 2011

You bred 'Raptors? <gasp?>

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