Beer Pairing for Girl Scout Cookies

Found this link while browsing the web today ...

What an idea ... Something for everyone.
Baby Shower? ... Bridge Party? ... Valentines Day Beer Tasting? ... yer kid's birthday? ... ahhh, yer daughters Girl Scout Cookie Sales? (!) ...

Here's a link to Beer and Girl Scout Cookie pairing ideas ...
http://beerandbrewing.com/VKm9gisAAF-R_rap/article/beer-pairings-for-girl-scout-cookies

And with the availability dates for the cookies (each year) usually being somewhere between late January and late March. Now's the time to get planning/brewing.

Dates for Cookie availability by zip code ...
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/g...=cookies&utm_medium=web&utm_source=utilitynav

Help the Girl Scouts ... and feel extra good about your beer drinking.
It's not a rationalization ... it's the right thing to do.

Jacob_Marley said:

What an idea ... Something for everyone.
Baby Shower? ... Bridge Party? ... Valentines Day Beer Tasting ... yer kid's birthday ... ahhh, yer daughters Girl Scout Cookie Sales (?!) ...
Here's a link to the pairing ideas ...
http://beerandbrewing.com/VKm9gisAAF-R_rap/article/beer-pairings-for-girl-scout-cookies

And with the availability dates for the cookies (each year) usually being somewhere between late January and late March. Now's the time to get planning/brewing.

Dates for Cookie availability by zip code ...
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/g...=cookies&utm_medium=web&utm_source=utilitynav

Help the Girl Scouts ... and feel extra good about your beer drinking.
It's not a rationalization ... it's the right thing to do.

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At our house, it works like this:

Q: What beer goes best with ______________?
A: Yes

I put Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies, fresh mint, and cocoa nibs in my randall and ran a milk stout through it.
Served it at the New England Homebrewers Jamboree. It was a big hit.

Here's the bank of randalls - far left in the pic is the stout

mack25 said:

I put Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies, fresh mint, and cocoa nibs in my randall and ran a milk stout through it.
Served it at the New England Homebrewers Jamboree. It was a big hit.

Here's the bank of randalls - far left in the pic is the stout

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Awesome, but have to ask, what's a Randall?

It's chamber that you fill with tasty things like (above) hops, strawberries, thin mint cookies, etc. and the beer passes through it on its way from the keg to the faucet. The beer picks up the flavors of whatever is in the chamber. Mine has chambers for 4 beers, and each has a bypass on it so you can try the beer with or without the randall.

mack25 said:

It's chamber that you fill with tasty things like (above) hops, strawberries, thin mint cookies, etc. and the beer passes through it on its way from the keg to the faucet. The beer picks up the flavors of whatever is in the chamber. Mine has chambers for 4 beers, and each has a bypass on it so you can try the beer with or without the randall.

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Would you mind sharing more detail how you set up your Randalls. Your setup from what I can see looks interesting. Not to hi-jack this thread maybe start a new one and mention some of us so we can find it.

Its a wooden box with 4 pairs of water filter housings (for 4 beers, or for one beer 4 ways). The beer passes through a cold plate into the first chamber full of hops & such. Then into the second chamber to settle, before heading to the faucet. The filters are mounted upside down and have PVC tubes inside (you can sort of see one in the pic above). The beer comes from cold plate and into the filter through the tube - it exits the filter from the bottom, so the beer is basically forced to pass over the ingredients.

The thing is packed away right now, but when I break it out next, I'll take some pics and post them.