Since there's people making Harry Popper butterbeer and a bit long thread about Middle Earth-inspired brews, I thought I'd try to brew up something inpsired by George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series and crack open the first bottle when the fifth book of the series comes out.
Specific information about beer in the books:
sweet beer (offered to Pycelle by Ned)
Strong beer (The beer was black and thick, so strong it stung the eyes. and Tyrion's mouth was full of bread and fish. He took a swallow of strong black beer to wash it all down)
pepper beer (Drogo drinks it)
Thin yellow beer (Craster drinks it)
The sweet beer is probably something unhopped and medicinal with herbs in it, black, thick strong beer sounds like a good thing to try, pepper beer either with cayanne pepper or black pepper corns (or both!) and then the thin yellow beer is probably a small ale and that's right out
I'm leaning towards doing either:
-a big stout with piles of maltodextrine to make it thick (don't have access to lactose and don't want to too sweet) but not hopped as much as a RIS (Westerosi Strong Beer).
-a pale ale with just a bit of black pepper corns and cayanne pepper added in some how (secondary? late in the boil?) to give it some zing but not enough to dominate it. Enough hop flavor to keep the pepper from taking over but not enough to drown out the flavor (Dothraki Pepper Ale).
Throw in some oak chips for both.
How does this sound?
Specific information about beer in the books:
sweet beer (offered to Pycelle by Ned)
Strong beer (The beer was black and thick, so strong it stung the eyes. and Tyrion's mouth was full of bread and fish. He took a swallow of strong black beer to wash it all down)
pepper beer (Drogo drinks it)
Thin yellow beer (Craster drinks it)
The sweet beer is probably something unhopped and medicinal with herbs in it, black, thick strong beer sounds like a good thing to try, pepper beer either with cayanne pepper or black pepper corns (or both!) and then the thin yellow beer is probably a small ale and that's right out
I'm leaning towards doing either:
-a big stout with piles of maltodextrine to make it thick (don't have access to lactose and don't want to too sweet) but not hopped as much as a RIS (Westerosi Strong Beer).
-a pale ale with just a bit of black pepper corns and cayanne pepper added in some how (secondary? late in the boil?) to give it some zing but not enough to dominate it. Enough hop flavor to keep the pepper from taking over but not enough to drown out the flavor (Dothraki Pepper Ale).
Throw in some oak chips for both.
How does this sound?