hist-brewing: Real Ale -- OT, OOP

[Kirsty Pollock]

Gary,

Sounds good. Must try one next time it's cherry season. At what point do you
add the fruit?

As to the oak - there's no reason anybody should be using it so far as I
know. Beer barrels were always sealed with pitch or something and no oak
taste gets into the beer. I haven't got refs (I read the articles a while
ago), but someone else is bound to. Modern british beer certainly never
tastes of oak.

You could, though, probably use young oak leaves as a bittering agent, not
there's another idea that'll have to wait...

Kirsty

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Honeycutt [mailto:wolfraven at earthlink.net]
> Sent: 29 September 1999 16:01
> To: Kirsty Pollock
> Subject: Re: hist-brewing: Real Ale -- OT, OOP
> 
> 
> To All:
>    I make a nice potent Ale that is made without hops but has 
> had honey and
> cherries added to th recipe,   the results is fantastic to 
> say the least.
> I have a higher alcohol content yet a honey/cherry after 
> taste.   I have
> people who has to take a week to finish a quart of my Ale and 
> most of them
> get hit hard at half a quart.   I do not add oak chips or age 
> my Ale in oak
> barrels.   Interesting enough there are no hang overs due to 
> this being left
> out.   This is a Nut Brown Ale that I start with.   Skoal!!!
> 
>    Wolfraven
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kirsty Pollock <kirsty.pollock at mpuk.com>
> To: <hist-brewing at pbm.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 09:08 AM
> Subject: RE: hist-brewing: Real Ale -- OT, OOP
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-hist-brewing at rt.com 
> [mailto:owner-hist-brewing at rt.com]On
> > > Behalf Of PBLoomis at aol.com
> > > Sent: 29 September 1999 14:16
> > > To: ansel at panetwork.com; David Hyatt; Nick Sasso;
> > > CALON-BREW at crcvms.unl.edu; SCA-dist2 at onelist.com; 
> hist-brewing at pbm.com
> > > Subject: Re: hist-brewing: Real Ale -- OT, OOP
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 09/29/1999 3:18:41 AM EST,
> > > kirsty.pollock at mpuk.com writes:
> > > << Yes, but why?? It's [Bass] bloody horrible...  >>
> > >
> > >     De gustibus non disputandum est.
> > >     (There is no disputing that Gus is in the East.)  :;-)
> > >
> > >     "You may talk of gin and beer,
> > >      When you're quartered safe out here,
> > >      And you're sent to penny fights and Aldershot it ...."
> > >  -- Kipling
> > >
> > >     Maybe you can get better in Ould Blighty, but out here in
> > > the Colonies....
> > > Remember, to be widely available in the States, a British
> > > beer has to be
> > > available in bottles, and high enough in alcohol to ship
> > > well.  Most of them
> > > aren't ENOUGH better than American craft beers to justify the
> > > import price.
> >
> > Probably very true, I wouldn't know.  Is there a higher or lower
> percentage
> > of 'real beer' fans in the US compared with the UK? I got 
> the impression
> > that it was lower, but I could be wrong. Tons of better beers are
> available
> > in bottles, and I can't recall Bass has any particularly 
> high strength.
> They
> > just aren't made by mega- breweries and so not worth 
> shipping to a very
> > limited market.
> >
> > >     I was weaned (away from American beers) on Bass and 
> Guinness, and
> > > still drink Bass occasionally.
> >
> > I whish I could e some boxes of Hobgoblin or Black Sheep
> >
> > >     Ann gairdeachas agus obair,   Scotti
> >
> > can't quite recall what that means (being a lowlander and 
> all that), but I
> > think it's pleasant.
> >
> > 
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