Tag: Denmark

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Pee in the Cup

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First off, a warning. This post is about urine.  Get your schoolboy or schoolgirl giggles out now because this is a cool idea.

Secondly, you will not be drinking beer made with pee so, you can stop being grossed out too.

In what is being called “Piss to Pilsner” or “Beercycling”, the Roskilde music festival will set-up special urinals like the one in the photo to collect in storage tanks.  The liquid is then used (don’t ask me how) as part of a special fertilizer for nearby barley fields.

For those planning on attending this festival, put it on your 2017 calendar.  The barley has to grow, then be brewed.

If there was a dedicated barley field in L.A., would you “add” yours to it?  And would you drink the resulting beer?  Imagine seeing a collection trough at next year’s L.A. Beer Week festival

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Without You….

Evil Twin and Mikkeller have some serious creativity. Though the label is boring the name of this new sour ale is pretty cool.

I am hoping that 12%, the importer can bring the beers over here in good condition. And then I hope they can make it to LA.

Would be cool to have a Mikkeller. Evil Twin taste off.

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Coffee + IPA = Mikkeller

File this under, might work. Two distinct flavors that may fight each other to a standstill. The coffee is called Guji Natural and is roasted by a by Koppi of Sweden. The hops in the other corner are Tomahawk. And it was brewed at Mikkeller’s default brewery De Proef.

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World Cup + World Beer – Denmark

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TODAY: DENMARK V. CAMEROON

I am going to go for a dark lager from Denmark’s mega brewer, Carlsberg. But this is from their premium line of Jacobsen beers. Here is the details on the dunkel: Original Dark Lager is brewed according to J.C. Jacobsen’s original recipe. The colour is chestnut. It has a Hersbrucker hop aroma while the floor malted Munich malt adds a caramel character.
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Clim8

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Ran across this beer mentioned on Roger Protz’s blog and thought I should bring it to a slightly wider audience…
“Denmark’s Harboe Brewery has launched a beer called Clim8 using 100% raw barley. The company says CO2 is saved by not malting the barley. All very worthy, but beer traditionally is made from malted grain that contains the natural maltose that can be fermented into alcohol. Raw barley on the other hand offers starch, not sugar. It appears that the only way maltose can be extracted from the grain is for large amounts of industrial enzymes to be added during the brewing process.”

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news from Mikkeller

While the beer geeks were slobbering over the news of a 1K IBU beer coming in February, I was more interested in two other notes…

# 1
“2009 was also the year where Mikkeller got his line of Single Hop on the move. After the first single hop, Simcoe, more followed, and last month came Tomahawk and Amarillo which was the 6th. and 7th. Early next year, 2010, an additional three new single hop beers will hit the market and at the same time new batches of the previous 7. This way you will be able to visit your local beer-pusher and buy 10 different Single Hops at the same time. With 10 different Single Hops in the fridge, all you need is a bag of peanuts to save the evening.”
I love the Mikkeller Single Hops and the fact that more are coming is beyond awesome.

# 2
“Mikkeller has planed more travels abroad in 2010. One of these travels will go to Greece to brew a beer with the greek micro-brewery Craft. And a couple of journeys to the US can not be excluded. Whether this will result in yet a new beer brewed with Three Floyds, or Mikkeller will brew with a different brewery is to early to say. Another cooperation with a European brewery is in the plan for 2010 also.”

3 Floyds + Mikkeller. That will be a beer to hoard for sure.

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Will the collaborating ever stop…

…I certainly hope not. This is what separates us from most other industries. Do movie studios collaborate? Do car companies collaborate?

Well, here is yet another in what seems like an endless stream of mash-ups
“Just released in the U.S.

Nogne-O Tiger Tripel Norwegian Ale
ABV = 9%
Ingredients: Malted barley, wheat, malted wheat, sugar, hops, yeast and local Grimstad water.

“It is very difficult to brew a complex and balanced Belgian-style tripel ale, but we have made an attempt at brewing one anyway! Our respect and admiration for those who master the skill and art of brewing excellent ale of this style is limitless. Tripels often pair will with cheese,seafood and fresh vegetables.” — Kjetill Jikiun – Head Brewer

Nogne/Mikkeller Tyttebaer Ale
ABV = 8.0%
A collaboration between Nogne and Mikkeller
Ingredients: Malted barley, unmalted wheat, malted wheat, Lingonberries, hops, Brettanomyces yeast, Lactobacillus and Grimstad water.

“Tyttebaer is also known as a lingonberry or mountain cranberry. This ale is full of Tyttebaer, and fermented with wild yeasts and bacteria. Feral at heart, it sat in fermentation tanks for 9 months and in bottles for 6 more months before we felt it was ready to be released. Who knows what it will do before ending up in your glass…It is, and always will be,wild.” — Kjetill Jikiun – Head Brewer”