2 posts tagged “beer”
This is a belgium wit beer kit from midwest brewing supply that we've flavored with raspberry-orange marmalade from my favorate marmalade maker, Sarabeth's. In retrospect, we should probably have gone with another style of wheat beer for this one. The raspberry flavor has gotten lost in the banana and clove flavors that go along with this yeast. It's still a good beer, and the perfect summer beer. One of the other grad students and I made this to drink and ease the pain of teaching summer classes. I got very lazy and didn't keep very good records on this one, but I'm pretty sure that ABV was around 4.7%, so it's a good session beer. I have to admit that as the summer session has dragged on, I've made a pretty good dent in my supply of it. I'm thinking about trying to talk K. into making another summer beer to get us through the rest of the summer. That's all I got in me to say about this one. Summer teaching is taking it out of me right now.
My friend Salt left a simple beer bread receipe in the comments section of my previous post about my failed attempt to make beer bread with the overly strong cardamom ale. The great thing about this receipe was it's simplicity. The only three ingredients are self-rising flour, beer, and sugar.
I also liked that it's baked in a cast iron skillet. Here it is pre-baking:
And post-baking:
The bread was excellent. D. and M. thought so too. I'll definitely hang onto the cardamom ale to make more bread.
