HOP VARIETIES
Hallertau Mittelfrueh Noble hops
MALT VARIETIES
Samuel Adams two-row pale malt blend and malted wheat​
YEAST STRAIN
Samuel Adams ale yeast
COLOR
Golden, hazy / 6 SRM
SPECIAL INGREDIENTS
A blend of exotic fruits & spices including orange peel, plum, hibiscus & fresh ground coriander.
5.3%ABV
IBUs 7
When I had it, the flavors that came through the most strongly were vanilla and hibiscus. Use an american ale yeast, and a solid amount of wheat. I would use the hops for bittering only with all of the spice additions.
So funny... Hibiscus and vanilla... you're killing me.
I wonder how they get the beer to stay so cloudy even when cold...This page: http://www.samueladams.com/craft-beers/cold-snap has fantastic statistics on this beer. According to it, they use Sam Adams house ale yeast, so check out WLP008: http://www.whitelabs.com/yeast/wlp008-east-coast-ale-yeast
Side note: it also says hibiscus on this page.. Quell haters! Also plums, orange peel, ground coriander seed.
I wonder how they get the beer to stay so cloudy even when cold...
I just realized that the beer is unfiltered. If it's also unpasteurized then we could harvest the yeast dregs out of a few bottles.
Thought I posted this here, but I tried harvesting with no luck. Seems as if they pasteurize
All Samuel Adams beers in kegs are unpasteurized but the Samuel Adams bottled beers are pasteurized. Any of Sam Adams wheat beers are going to be unfiltered but the rest are filtered.
Let us know how it turns out!I will be brewing this tomorrow. The spices I am going to add during the boil will be the Orange zest, lemon zest, hibiscus, and the coriander. I am going to be using the zest from 3 oranges, 5 (smallish) lemons, one ounce coriander, and 3 oz hibiscus. Hopefully the hibiscus wont affect the color too much, I don't think it will. I will see how the flavor is at that point after fermentation and post the result. Than if needed I will "dry hop" the rest of the spices.
The most likely candidates to me seem like vanilla and hibiscusDoes Anyone Think Which Spices Might Be Dry Spiced
Having brewed with lots of hibiscus, I can say with 100% certainty that it is not in this beer. Grain of paradise, maybe. But definitely not hibiscus.
Better brewing through science!
Its Hard To Pick It Out But Im Sure Its In There, With 10 Spices Im Sure Its Just A Little Muted. Its Like My Cooking With Onions, I Dont Like Them So You Cant TastE OniOns In My Cooking But I Like The Flavor They Lend To The Dish As A whole.
Hi there,Hello jmdkc and wicked first post. Can I ask which ingredients SA confirmed were in the recipe and which you're guessing on?
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