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29-10-2021, 07:13
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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrBicyyYx3PZQqoO6cgqDRQwSDjdwozj0ADf1x2gaAnt absvpUvtviXLeBNCgf0JjF6dkOwnE5qnJNWZDJ_TvUulir8uMJ ZfLUEMvacLNErBL-m2lt015kSiLF-T_p4R3S3Elm-xoVcTPBhA-BdJLD8AMW5mO18XdBC-m2j-5i4QPoiuckg5I=w179-h200 (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrBicyyYx3PZQqoO6cgqDRQwSDjdwozj0ADf1x2gaAnt absvpUvtviXLeBNCgf0JjF6dkOwnE5qnJNWZDJ_TvUulir8uMJ ZfLUEMvacLNErBL-m2lt015kSiLF-T_p4R3S3Elm-xoVcTPBhA-BdJLD8AMW5mO18XdBC-m2j-5i4QPoiuckg5I=s2048)It's a small selection from Tipperary mavericks Canvas today, one blessed by two stouts, I'm pleased to say.
Smoking your own malt is very on-brand for the brewery, and they've enlisted local barbecue restaurant De Roiste's to do the necessary on the heritage barley grown and malted on the brewery farm. They've put it into Mike's Legacy, a stout of 4.3% ABV. It looks like a proper stout in the glass, a rich dark brown with a generous crema on top, although the extensive floaty bits bobbing around the body are a little off-putting. The aroma is a tarry bitterness which hints at the smoke but is also within the parameters of a heavy stout. This isn't heavy, its texture light with lots of fizz. A classic dry-stout roastiness is the core of the flavour; toasty to the point of ashen yet still somehow quenching and refreshing. The smoke is subtle and adds a savoury meaty side which is entirely complementary to the roasted malt. The result is very wholesome and old-fashioned tasting and I got a sense of warm bottles by a fireside of long ago. We're not told who Mike is, but this is a fine legacy for anyone.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXM4AJV9hg4b0ln3To75sunBnPesXPwUjQWTnMkSII8Q lNDk1CgAl3RBgjFoAs3JFjdqULYIXPQZG_99FUJ2-4vH4MJfvhZwaZPx7MXErSCVw4Rg_4pvAgZQiQnMdbDxzgK8o7Y rTTWW8QUaYDXTq95k80YNpnCrk922pW6AIYXr6yms0Ac6Y=w13 6-h200 (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXM4AJV9hg4b0ln3To75sunBnPesXPwUjQWTnMkSII8Q lNDk1CgAl3RBgjFoAs3JFjdqULYIXPQZG_99FUJ2-4vH4MJfvhZwaZPx7MXErSCVw4Rg_4pvAgZQiQnMdbDxzgK8o7Y rTTWW8QUaYDXTq95k80YNpnCrk922pW6AIYXr6yms0Ac6Y=s20 48)It's only a couple of weeks since I last had a ginger beer (https://thebeernut.blogspot.com/2021/09/herbs-and-spices.html) on here, and here's another, with a very similar name: Zingiberi. This is no easy quaffer, though, but an altogether more serious drink. It's 6.6% ABV and a deep orange colour. We are promised a "fiery kick" by the label but I didn't really get that, merely a gentle ginger spicing -- gingernut biscuit level but no higher. The heavy gravity gives it a sort of creamy, yoghurty fullness, which is unusual, and a little unsettling if I'm honest. Lemon is listed in the ingredients but I can't taste its contribution. I think this falls between two beer styles: it has the heft of a strong ale but is missing the malt and hop flavours that make them worthwhile; and then it's just too heavy to be a refreshing ginger beer and doesn't carry enough spice to be a daring novelty. I'd go back to the drawing board with this, dial back the malt and increase the ginger.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg9TaSSkB_U48Sv8v5g5UAot7yWc9XUjyj2w5A2fNmhA 5GbwFkqOJhINMrjkwqJ06Bivony9rGgpxKwKDPU_LL_TSMLuij oxwAepZS3VytGKymNWJiuYQhYQE4c0JXvZQ7p9SCcC_UMztFTz v5Kow2SB1l-ytjmMuCSw2soocV9JibiFGfGRo=w182-h200 (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg9TaSSkB_U48Sv8v5g5UAot7yWc9XUjyj2w5A2fNmhA 5GbwFkqOJhINMrjkwqJ06Bivony9rGgpxKwKDPU_LL_TSMLuij oxwAepZS3VytGKymNWJiuYQhYQE4c0JXvZQ7p9SCcC_UMztFTz v5Kow2SB1l-ytjmMuCSw2soocV9JibiFGfGRo=s2048)You don't see too many historical recreation beers in these parts but here's Canvas Extra Stout, based on an early 20th century recipe from the Magee Marshall Brewery in Bolton. It's black, it's fizzy and it's 6.7% ABV, which all says "extra stout" to me. There's a slightly wild fruity sharpness in the aroma, the cherry of a Flemish red. The flavour follows that with a high-attenuation dryness within which is a red mix of summer berries and rosewater. You get a modicum of roasty mocha too. I prefer strong stouts to be richer than this; it's a little too thin and perfumed to be properly my sort of thing, but it has a lot going for it -- a kind of lightly soured Belgian charm.
Canvas's unique idiosyncrasies are very manifest in this lot -- it's a brewery full of daring recipes and unorthodox processes. The beers provide much to ponder, and that's part of the value.
More... (https://thebeernut.blogspot.com/2021/10/dark-and-stormy.html)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrBicyyYx3PZQqoO6cgqDRQwSDjdwozj0ADf1x2gaAnt absvpUvtviXLeBNCgf0JjF6dkOwnE5qnJNWZDJ_TvUulir8uMJ ZfLUEMvacLNErBL-m2lt015kSiLF-T_p4R3S3Elm-xoVcTPBhA-BdJLD8AMW5mO18XdBC-m2j-5i4QPoiuckg5I=w179-h200 (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrBicyyYx3PZQqoO6cgqDRQwSDjdwozj0ADf1x2gaAnt absvpUvtviXLeBNCgf0JjF6dkOwnE5qnJNWZDJ_TvUulir8uMJ ZfLUEMvacLNErBL-m2lt015kSiLF-T_p4R3S3Elm-xoVcTPBhA-BdJLD8AMW5mO18XdBC-m2j-5i4QPoiuckg5I=s2048)It's a small selection from Tipperary mavericks Canvas today, one blessed by two stouts, I'm pleased to say.
Smoking your own malt is very on-brand for the brewery, and they've enlisted local barbecue restaurant De Roiste's to do the necessary on the heritage barley grown and malted on the brewery farm. They've put it into Mike's Legacy, a stout of 4.3% ABV. It looks like a proper stout in the glass, a rich dark brown with a generous crema on top, although the extensive floaty bits bobbing around the body are a little off-putting. The aroma is a tarry bitterness which hints at the smoke but is also within the parameters of a heavy stout. This isn't heavy, its texture light with lots of fizz. A classic dry-stout roastiness is the core of the flavour; toasty to the point of ashen yet still somehow quenching and refreshing. The smoke is subtle and adds a savoury meaty side which is entirely complementary to the roasted malt. The result is very wholesome and old-fashioned tasting and I got a sense of warm bottles by a fireside of long ago. We're not told who Mike is, but this is a fine legacy for anyone.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXM4AJV9hg4b0ln3To75sunBnPesXPwUjQWTnMkSII8Q lNDk1CgAl3RBgjFoAs3JFjdqULYIXPQZG_99FUJ2-4vH4MJfvhZwaZPx7MXErSCVw4Rg_4pvAgZQiQnMdbDxzgK8o7Y rTTWW8QUaYDXTq95k80YNpnCrk922pW6AIYXr6yms0Ac6Y=w13 6-h200 (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXM4AJV9hg4b0ln3To75sunBnPesXPwUjQWTnMkSII8Q lNDk1CgAl3RBgjFoAs3JFjdqULYIXPQZG_99FUJ2-4vH4MJfvhZwaZPx7MXErSCVw4Rg_4pvAgZQiQnMdbDxzgK8o7Y rTTWW8QUaYDXTq95k80YNpnCrk922pW6AIYXr6yms0Ac6Y=s20 48)It's only a couple of weeks since I last had a ginger beer (https://thebeernut.blogspot.com/2021/09/herbs-and-spices.html) on here, and here's another, with a very similar name: Zingiberi. This is no easy quaffer, though, but an altogether more serious drink. It's 6.6% ABV and a deep orange colour. We are promised a "fiery kick" by the label but I didn't really get that, merely a gentle ginger spicing -- gingernut biscuit level but no higher. The heavy gravity gives it a sort of creamy, yoghurty fullness, which is unusual, and a little unsettling if I'm honest. Lemon is listed in the ingredients but I can't taste its contribution. I think this falls between two beer styles: it has the heft of a strong ale but is missing the malt and hop flavours that make them worthwhile; and then it's just too heavy to be a refreshing ginger beer and doesn't carry enough spice to be a daring novelty. I'd go back to the drawing board with this, dial back the malt and increase the ginger.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg9TaSSkB_U48Sv8v5g5UAot7yWc9XUjyj2w5A2fNmhA 5GbwFkqOJhINMrjkwqJ06Bivony9rGgpxKwKDPU_LL_TSMLuij oxwAepZS3VytGKymNWJiuYQhYQE4c0JXvZQ7p9SCcC_UMztFTz v5Kow2SB1l-ytjmMuCSw2soocV9JibiFGfGRo=w182-h200 (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg9TaSSkB_U48Sv8v5g5UAot7yWc9XUjyj2w5A2fNmhA 5GbwFkqOJhINMrjkwqJ06Bivony9rGgpxKwKDPU_LL_TSMLuij oxwAepZS3VytGKymNWJiuYQhYQE4c0JXvZQ7p9SCcC_UMztFTz v5Kow2SB1l-ytjmMuCSw2soocV9JibiFGfGRo=s2048)You don't see too many historical recreation beers in these parts but here's Canvas Extra Stout, based on an early 20th century recipe from the Magee Marshall Brewery in Bolton. It's black, it's fizzy and it's 6.7% ABV, which all says "extra stout" to me. There's a slightly wild fruity sharpness in the aroma, the cherry of a Flemish red. The flavour follows that with a high-attenuation dryness within which is a red mix of summer berries and rosewater. You get a modicum of roasty mocha too. I prefer strong stouts to be richer than this; it's a little too thin and perfumed to be properly my sort of thing, but it has a lot going for it -- a kind of lightly soured Belgian charm.
Canvas's unique idiosyncrasies are very manifest in this lot -- it's a brewery full of daring recipes and unorthodox processes. The beers provide much to ponder, and that's part of the value.
More... (https://thebeernut.blogspot.com/2021/10/dark-and-stormy.html)