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You were talking about those yesterday in the brewery. Looked them up, it sounds tasty. Not the same marinade, but Aldi sells marinated chicken skewers, in chili lime and pollo asado flavors. We have some in our freezer. Now I need to get some hoagie buns for those...
I've tried those, and no offense but I'll stick with spiedies. ;)
 
Food for at least 6 months, shared with the family and friends.Not sure why it has to be explained!!

I like slow elk.

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Every once in a while I like getting my freak on with a pint of Aecht Schlenkerla smoke beer. Actually the correct term for these is Rauchbier, and in this case a delicious Oak-smoked Doppelbock produced with fire-kilned malts. Delicious!

Rauchbier is one of the earliest types of beer. Back in the day, (say Medieval times), you had your choice to either air-dry or kiln-dry malt over a smoky fire. Weather being what it is, that means that most of the year’s production of beer malt would have a smoky characteristic due to the mostly damp conditions of the European weather.

So smoke it is! Actually, if we were living in our hovel or hütte, say in the 1200’s there’s a lot of other more pressing issues to contend with, primarily finding enough food and avoiding the Bubonic Plague. Potatoes hadn’t been brought in from the undiscovered New World, and the year’s grain was wet, rat-infested and rotted. You can’t drink the river water and there’s limited meat! Smoky beer malt was the least of your concerns!

For that matter, darned near everything else probably had a heavy smokiness as well. How many of you have been around a campfire or bonfire and went home smelling of smoke? Well, if that was your only way of staying warm, and the clothes you are in are the only ones you own, you bathe twice a year and have a dirt floored one-room shack, everything you have probably reeked of smoke, your clothes, your blanket, your feet, your hair, your wife, your kids, the fire-pit, the smoky lard candles - the whole place stunk! Not to mention the animals you bring in to keep from the cold! You might not even notice the smokiness of your wooden-mugged beer!

So let’s raise a pint to our hearty and smoky ancestors who somehow survived those days living in European Dark and Middle Ages, Medieval times and all the squalor! The water made you sick, but you could drink the beer, yeah! Beer made it happen! Prost!

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Spelt saison. 10 months old now. For a 4.2% saison, its still really good. My favourite beer to brew and have around. I'm tempted to just get more bottles and brew this year round. I do a batch every year, but this is what i wait for.

I always need 2 pint glasses for a 750ml champagne bottle. The high carbonation and spelt make for a rocky head
 
That looks really good. Any chance of getting the recipe on that one?
Certainly
59% 2 row
15% malted oats
18% white wheat
2% honey malt
2% carapils
4% maltodextrin

Small bittering charge of ctz at 60min .. 1 oz in 20gal

.5 oz per gallon of mosaic at 5min

Whirlpool
1oz per gallon 1:1:1
Citra:mosaic:nectaron

Double dry hopped
2.5 oz per gallon divided 24 hours apart
Citra:nectaron:galaxy

Cheers.

Oh and on topic, since I grabbed my brew log I figured may as well grab a hb hefeweizen

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