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Post by Alex Bullock on Dec 21, 2016 15:55:11 GMT -5
Name: Road Sider Style: Ale/Cider Brewer: Dan/Denny ABV: 5.6% IBU: 27 SRM: 9 Post your comments below! Cheers!
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Post by denkneevee on Dec 22, 2016 20:14:11 GMT -5
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Post by Christy on Dec 22, 2016 21:17:00 GMT -5
I definitely enjoyed this ale, and would say it's more ale than cider. What proportions were there of each, if I may ask, and what was the base beer? Light but not thin and a little fruity with bit of spice in the background (added or yeast?). Just enough hops to balance the maltiness and a hint of sweetness. I'll let the others delve into the detailed aroma/flavour profile. Very nice, thanks Dan and Denny!
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Post by denkneevee on Dec 22, 2016 22:05:05 GMT -5
Just noticed above that the bottle pic is wrong but u guys will figure it out. It's the orange cap tonight
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Post by imaretiree on Dec 23, 2016 0:11:29 GMT -5
I agree more beer than cider. Some apple in the aroma. Is that a saison yeast because it smells and tastes like it to me. Slight fruit at the beginning of the taste and then the yeast flavour came through. I need to buy into the cider buy next year.
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Post by Peter on Dec 23, 2016 11:37:32 GMT -5
I also think it tasted like more ale than cider. I found it to be a good balance between malt ( or apple) and bitterness. Being an uncultured person though i cannot get by the yeast flavors added. This seemed to be either a Belgian yeast or the wheat beer yeast used in the wheat beer. Try as I may ( and I keep coming back and trying Belgians/wheats ) I'm just not in a place to enjoy them yet. ( unless of course it's an American Wheat where those yeast esters are not to be present ). Still though I can tell it was very well made!
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Post by denkneevee on Dec 23, 2016 20:21:03 GMT -5
Thanks all. Ya, we were going for a hint of cider, more of a ale cider hybrid. Definitely more malt than cider. The yeast was the English cider WyLab. Simple FWH of Galena. That's about it, oh yah and some cinnamon. This one would be hard to replicate. We tried and tried to get er pumping again with no luck so we had to bucket er out into boiler and back into mash. Don't worry, there's only a tad of sweat that dripped into the wort in the process.
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Post by Stephen on Dec 24, 2016 18:04:42 GMT -5
Catching up...
This one took me most of the glass to get coherent thoughts on. I found there were a bunch of things going on and with each sip I was trying to figure it all out. Since going in I knew it was a hybrid I was thinking it would be a bit malty(er) cider but was surprised when the cider took the back seat post the aroma where I got notes of it. It had a nice malty backbone and a pretty solid bitterness from the hops but that bitterness came out different I suspect because the whole thing would be relatively low due to the pH from the added cider. I'm glad I got a chance to taste this as it gave me whole glass of thinking and overall it was well made. I think the bitterness put me off a bit more than maybe others as I'm more of a flavour and aroma dry hop guy especially as it get more tart and lower in pH. Thanks for sharing this interesting one guys!
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Post by Alex Bullock on Dec 24, 2016 19:25:37 GMT -5
Also catching up lol
I agree with Stephen in that there's a lot going on. I got some cider in the aroma but I couldn't find it in the taste. Overall the malt character is nice and toffee/toasty and there's some hop character that I am attributing to some of the saison-like pear and light pepper esters I'm getting. I would be interested in how much of this was cider and whether it was added post fermentation or mixed together before primary.
Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Alex Bullock on Dec 24, 2016 19:32:26 GMT -5
And I think I picked up a little bit of the cinnamon too!
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