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Lagering Bio chocolate beer

June 2nd 2010 Posted at Brewing, General
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Monday, Mai 31st 2010

From now on the fermentation process should be over and it’s time to go into a next stage with the newly born bio chocolate beer.  The beer is being transferred in a new barrel.  This barrel goes into a cooler for about 3 weeks.  There were no additional herbs added.

The rest fraction of the yeast has been poured into a bottle.  If you take a closer look at the picture you can see that there is an upper dark part, which contains beer and then there is a ground of dead yeast.  The sugars have been completely changed into alcohol.  The beer has an alcohol percentage of 8,9%.  Which isn’t that bad.

The restfraction of the yeast looks like chocolate.

A first taste of the fermented liquid gave a sour taste with slight touches of cocoa.   I hope to know more soon when lagering is over.

Cheers Alain

Brewing bio chocolate beer @ Jessenhofke demobrewery

May 25th 2010 Posted at Brewing, Chocolate
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Monday, Mai 24th 2010

Today I went brewing a new beer based on chocolate.  The event took place at the Jessenhofke demobrewery

in Hasselt.  I can tell you, it was an amazing interesting day.  I can only recommend this experience.

We started out with grinding the malts used in the beer.

This malt goes into a kettle that is getting heated till a certain temperature to change the starch into sugars and then this hot soup of malt goes into a filterdevice.  The malt is being filtered from the liquid.

After filtering the liquid is being cooked togheter with the gold of every brewer : “hop”.

The cooked liquid goes through a cooling device and is then added into a sterile barrel. The secret spices are added and the yeast togheter with some sugar (the sugar is bio Arenga Palm Sugar).  In this barrel the beer will ferment for a week convert the sugars into alcohol.

Next week, after a week of fermenting, the beer is being poured into another barrel so it can lager for a few weeks.  After this lagering, I think at the end of June, the chocolate beer will go onto bottles where it can mature for another few months or years.

Thanks to Jessenhofke demobrewery for recipe and brewing and brewmaster Gert.

Lateron, the beer will b e available for tasting purposes.

Cheers Alain

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