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By Bob G on Mar 9th 2004, 8:47 am
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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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