Appearance: Beer pours a really nice, hazy strawberry blonde. about a finger and a half of head the stands nicely and hangs around.
Aroma: vanilla, faint strawberry, sarsaparilla on the edges. lemon custard, pink grapefruit. smells great. like an ice cream shop. as it opens up, the strawberries and cream note really comes to the forefront.
Taste: nothing off. reads super clean. there’s an overt fruitiness that definitely scans as strawberry, but other berries too. juicy, tropical fruits, honey dew, then vanilla and sarsaparilla kick in. Creamy. Yogurty. The acid from the strawberries plays nicely with the yogurt-like and lemon-lime acidity on the finish. Soft tannin from the sarsaparilla. this definitely a build that I’d love to run with. would love to see some subtle mint from birch or even just straight up mint. Oats play quietly in the finish.
Mouthfeel: amazing. soft. juicy. creamy. acidity is soft and present.
Drinkability and Notes: extremely drinkable. this one is going to make a lot of people smile. one could argue that the strawberries are too quiet, but a really like the level that their at. Would be cool to try stepping up the amount to see if the beer picks up more pink hues and strawberry flavor. Might also be a good idea to add strawberries after fermentation calms down a tiny bit.
Changes for next time: in all honesty, I like this beer exactly how it is. it’s ready to print. it would be cool to see what happens when you add more strawberry and definitely interested in bringing in a birch note, but no need to make those changes. Maybe bring the mash temp down a tiny bit or explore other options for drying the beer out a touch more.
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Hi Beryn,
8/21/2018 6:54:09 PM
Im giving this a try but had a couple questions: do you add the flame out hops at the primary boil or the pasteurization boil? Or if you could be more specific as when you introduce initial hops, then the Cryo hops, then finally the citra/simcoe/mosaic hops. And when you mention sarsaparilla do you mean the soft drink, the extract, or the actual root. Thank you for your work and I am excited to give this a try!
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Hi Beryn,
8/21/2018 6:54:09 PMIm giving this a try but had a couple questions: do you add the flame out hops at the primary boil or the pasteurization boil? Or if you could be more specific as when you introduce initial hops, then the Cryo hops, then finally the citra/simcoe/mosaic hops. And when you mention sarsaparilla do you mean the soft drink, the extract, or the actual root. Thank you for your work and I am excited to give this a try!
8/21/2018 7:05:55 PM