This 🍺 Thirsty Thursday 🍺 we're exploring one of our head brewer, Danny's, favourite ingredients: Crystal Malt. Get into the nitty gritty with us and try...
WE HAVE A THIRST FOR GOOD BEER & KNOWLEDGE
We often take a long hard look at ourselves and ask WHY? Why did we add Salt, Lime and Tequila to a lager? Why did we throw a small cars worth of fruit into the sour mash? Why, oh why, did we spend hours hand toasting iron bark, then drop it into a perfectly delicious double WC IPA? Well the latter was for Gabs Fest that’s why! But the real question is - WHY NOT?
Experimenting with techniques and ideas to create, enhance and celebrate texture and flavour is 100% what craft is all about.
Back in 1895 a Scottish Brewer named James Mclay added oats to his Stout, making the world’s first recorded Oat Malt Stout. While it was something wild back in 1895, now you need to hold brewers back from using oats in their … well … everything!
We have added some pretty weird stuff to beer over the years. Our medal winning Lagerita has Orange Liquor and Agave (tequila), lime and salt added to our Japanese Lager. It’s built a moreish salinity and texture that is dry, a little bit umami and very dang refreshing. YO HO - our last Gabs beer, had rum added to a Porter that Jack sparrow would have been proud of.
This year, while others seem to be racing to the bubblegum, we thought gabs deserved something not wacky, but bloody wonderful! So we added wood to our beer. Native wood at that. Ironbark to be precise.
We spent hours intricately hand cutting, drying and toasting the ironbark, to get the perfect amount of toast vs native wood. We then fermented an absolute banger of a double westie and threw those staves into the bright tank.
We were all (Danny most), like a koala on a hot tin dunny roof as we tasted our creation every day for many days to ensure it gave exactly what we wanted - chewy texture of the wood, a balance of the gum tree flavour with the fruit and toffee of the westie and the toast to tie it all together.
NAILED IT! It’s a big Two Thumbs up from us and a huge nod to making great craft beer!
Pouring exclusively this weekend at Gabs Brisbane, followed by Melbs, and then right here in our Brewhouse!
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