Microbrewed Adventures - Charles Papazian [1]
Bert Grant’s Planet Imperial Stout
Felicitous Stout
1981 Boulder Christmas Stout
Samuel Adams 1880
George Killian’s Irish Red Ale from Pellforth
Masterbrewers Doppelbock
Masterbrewers Celebration Light Lager
Klibbety Jibbit
Mile-High Green Chile Ale
Puritanical Nut Brown Ale
Telluride India Pale Ale
John 1981—A Homebrewed Version of Charlie 1981
1447 Belgium Zwarte Rose Ale
Jeff Bagby’s Hop Whompus 2004
Stone 03.03.03 Vertical Epic Ale
New Wisconsin Apple/Raspberry/Cherry Beer
65-65-65-6.5 India Pale Ale
Flying Fish Baby Saison Farmhouse Ale
Brooklyn’s Original Chocolate Stout
Magic Bolo #9.1
Wolaver’s Organic Oatmeal Stout
Alaskan Winter Spruce Old Ale
Sam Adams Triple Bock Homebrew
MickViRay Papazian Pilsener
Irish Cocoa Wood Porter
Old Lighthouse in the Fog Barleywine Ale
Original Dogbolter Ale—Goose & Firkin
Beyond-the-Ordinary Ordinary Bitter
St. Bartholomew’s Mead
Castle Metheglin
Andech’s Weekday Bock
Pumpernickel Rye Stout
Crazy Old Man Altbier
Hans Weissbier
Printz Helles German Lager
Frog & Rosbif’s Brown Wheat Coriander Ale
Poetic Brighella Italian-Belgian-German-English-American Ale
Piozzo Italian Pale Ale
Vello’s Gotlandsdricke
Zeezuiper Spiced Nederlander Strong Ale
Switch and Toggles Preposterous Poorter
Belgian-Style Cherry–Black Currant (Kriek-Cassis) Lambic
Czech-Mex Tijuana Urquell
Quito Abbey Ale—1534
Vienna-Style Ouro de Habanera (Havana Gold)
Zimbabwe Zephyr Sorghum Beer
Swakapmund Cowboy Lager
Zaltitis Baltic Porter
Qingdao Dark Lager
Fiji Homebrew—Vale Vakaviti
Sparkling Mead—Tropical Champagne
Monastic Bleue Strong Belgian-Style Ale
19th-Century Leipziger Gose
Glossary of Terms
Searchable Terms
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by Charlie Papazian
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
I AM AT HEART a brewer. The romance of beer has been a significant part of my life since the early 1970s. My first homebrew was an amber beer brewed in the basement of a Charlottesville, Virginia, preschool and day care center. I never looked back. Our five senses help me turn the basic ingredients—hops, yeast, malt and water—into beer, but it is my imagination that permits me to experiment and create an endless variety of new and inspired beers.
IMAGINATION IS A powerful factor that influences our view of the world—indeed, it is at the heart of how we interpret our senses of taste, smell, hearing, sight and touch. At recent judgings of beer I have begun cautioning myself about the extent to which we become separated from our imagination as we evaluate beer. As beer drinkers and brewers, we sometimes try to mimic machines too much.
Refreshingly, among the most experienced and passionate of brewers, objective evaluation is mixed with stories of great beers and great brewers. These side trips lend proper perspective to most discussions. A brewer may say, “The character in this beer, though some may consider it a technical flaw, is a real, honest-to-God, traditional character that has beer enjoyment value and is found in some small, genuinely wonderful countryside breweries—and I like it. In fact, I am passionate about the beer’s character.” You can see the smile on that brewer’s face and his daydream expression as he imagines someday recreating the experience. The beer with its eccentric—not technically brewers’-perfect—character has warmth of heart, which is perhaps the real reason we all pay for beer. Simply by inhaling certain aromas, I can recall wonderful memories and moments of pleasure.
I often enjoyed one of my favorite American-made British-style bitters on the rooftop of a popular neighborhood tavern. The view of the Front Range Rocky Mountains, and the warmth of the sun on early spring and late autumn days, brought cheer. The all-malt, full-flavored draft bitter is easily affected by sunlight, yet I loved the beer and being there, at that spot.
Now, whenever I experience the aroma of an all-malt beer that is faintly and freshly sunstruck, I smile. I enjoy these technically destabilized beers, and often prefer