| By Bob G on May 19th 2005, 4:49 am | Permalink |
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Just wanted to thank N8 for providing and Tom Fries for dropping off that slurry of CL-50 for me . Tom and Terri were over at our Brewpub last Saturday and we sampled and enjoyed each others beers, food and company. N8, I sent up a box of beer to Denny that I think he is going to share with you and your cronies. Cheers, Bob |
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| By Bob G on Mar 11th 2004, 5:16 pm | Permalink |
| Cool...Thanks Denny | |
| By Bob G on Mar 11th 2004, 9:15 am | Permalink |
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Yeah Denny, I'm totally open for ideas on this common background flavor that I' detect with Old Rasputin and BBP among others. Maybe I jumped to conclusions being that my Stout with the licorice flavor faded way in the background to support my theory. Could be a combination of roasted malts...i.e. Black, Roasted etc in conjunction with heavy crystal malts ~120 L and/or Special B or all of the above in combinations. I can usually nail a recipe in three tries but, the above have eluded me for some time. I'm getting to the point of "ok lets stop chasing things and work on my own unique creations once again" Well, I just want everyone to know that I think this is a wonderful place and I'm really glad to be here hanging out with you guys. Although I monitor and post on RCB, it's nice to find "another place" to hang out. Bob |
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| By Bob G on Mar 9th 2004, 8:47 am | Permalink |
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I made an observation while tasting my cloned Old Rasputin Russian Imerial Stout. I feel that I may have found the missing link when I made similiar observations whilst tasting Black Butte Porter and Bison's Chocolate Stout. There was a common background flavor that I recognized and I beleive it to be Brewers Licorice. I have tried to clone the above beers many times but, something was always missing. Even though I thought I had the grain/hop bill nailed(which I can usually do in three brewing sessions) there was that certain ginasayqua(you know what I mean) missing. Then I brewed a semi-sweet stout and tossed in a whole Brewers Licorice stick. Upon tasting the completed beer I came to the conclusion that all of the beers that I had metioned previously had all the same Licorice profile. This is an ongoing experiment and I will post future results with cloned beers with licorice. |
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