Thoughts: This is a rustic, cottage sort of a pudding, but the whiskey whipped cream elevates it up and beyond ordinary tastiness. The spent grains from the apple beer give the pudding some husky body, but the regular barley helps keep the texture from being too rough. The cloud of boozy whipped cream adds yet…
Month: May 2013
Apple Beer Trub Bread
“Trub” is the name for that yeasty sludge left in the bottom of a carboy after the beer has been racked out. With many beers, the trub will absorb the bitterness from the hops, leaving an unpleasant set of flavors to work with. With the apple beer, however, there’s so little of the hops used…
Colonial Apple Beer
Thoughts: The basic idea of this beer is that it uses apple cider instead of water in the wort. It ended up quirky, in that at least half the fermenting beer was sediment in the jug. I ended up making a great bread from that sediment, and a variety of other recipes from the spent…
Game of Brews 