Cleaning up things and I find a bottle cap with "VCA". This is my vanilla cream ale. I know it's been a while since I bottled a vanilla cream ale. I put the bottle into my beverage center and forgot about it.
Friday, September 13, 2019, as the spirits are conspiring against me, I pop the cap and pour myself the VCA. It is absolutely wonderful. Pleasant vanilla aroma and flavor.
Pouring thru my recipes, Promash and BeerSmith I belive I discover I brewed the VCA in June 2009 or February 2012. This can't be true. 10 years old or 7 years old and it tastes better than what I've recently brewed.
Recipe is basically simple.
Either DME or LME
Some Crystal 10L
Some CaraPils
Fuggle hops for bittering and again for flavoring.
US-05 yeast.
Steep the grains at 155F for 30 minutes. Normal brewing.
Secondary add lactose.
Bottling add pure vanilla.
This beer is fantastic. Last bottle. No way is it 2009 or 2012. If it is, how did it survive? How did it not degregate over time?
I now brew all grain all the time, but I've not come close to this brew.
I'm puzzled...
Friday, September 13, 2019, as the spirits are conspiring against me, I pop the cap and pour myself the VCA. It is absolutely wonderful. Pleasant vanilla aroma and flavor.
Pouring thru my recipes, Promash and BeerSmith I belive I discover I brewed the VCA in June 2009 or February 2012. This can't be true. 10 years old or 7 years old and it tastes better than what I've recently brewed.
Recipe is basically simple.
Either DME or LME
Some Crystal 10L
Some CaraPils
Fuggle hops for bittering and again for flavoring.
US-05 yeast.
Steep the grains at 155F for 30 minutes. Normal brewing.
Secondary add lactose.
Bottling add pure vanilla.
This beer is fantastic. Last bottle. No way is it 2009 or 2012. If it is, how did it survive? How did it not degregate over time?
I now brew all grain all the time, but I've not come close to this brew.
I'm puzzled...
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