218: Humidor Series: Gedanken Gruit
I've learned that with some folks the less they know about a thing, the more they'll be sure they know everything that could ever be known about it. And such was the case with Humidor Series: Gruit. No one alive today has ever had a wide range of honest to goodness Medieval era Gruit Ales. Which means pretty much every "Gruit ale" brewed on the planet today is a guess. But apparently some people are allowed to be guessers, while we are not allowed to be. So I am re-nicknaming Humidor Series: Gruit, to Humidor Series: Gedanken Gruit.
A Gedanken is a proposal for a thought experiment that would test a hypothesis. We had the hypothesis that if you were going to brew a beer with an abundant source of anti-microbial wood like Cedrela you might have something Gruit-like. Fools that we are, we thought we were allowed to do such a thing.
Anyway, we are happy with what we came up with. It's a very different kind of a beer. It has a bit of a wildness to it, but it is fairly drinkable at the same time. It's not like anything we have ever made. What exactly it is, from a "I must classify this or I will stay awake nights" point of view I can't really say. But, I think it qualifies as Gruit-like. Now if you happen to be say, Merlin and have been keeping yourself alive for generations using some truly righteous Gruit-esque concoctions then by all means share your personal experiences. But, if you don't have fond memories of quaffing honest-to-goodness real Gruit beer back when it was actually all that was going in the beer world, please allow us a little bit of conjecture.
Cheers,
The CCB Staff.
A Gedanken is a proposal for a thought experiment that would test a hypothesis. We had the hypothesis that if you were going to brew a beer with an abundant source of anti-microbial wood like Cedrela you might have something Gruit-like. Fools that we are, we thought we were allowed to do such a thing.
Anyway, we are happy with what we came up with. It's a very different kind of a beer. It has a bit of a wildness to it, but it is fairly drinkable at the same time. It's not like anything we have ever made. What exactly it is, from a "I must classify this or I will stay awake nights" point of view I can't really say. But, I think it qualifies as Gruit-like. Now if you happen to be say, Merlin and have been keeping yourself alive for generations using some truly righteous Gruit-esque concoctions then by all means share your personal experiences. But, if you don't have fond memories of quaffing honest-to-goodness real Gruit beer back when it was actually all that was going in the beer world, please allow us a little bit of conjecture.
Cheers,
The CCB Staff.
Im not sure what responses you have gotten, and I haven't tried it.. but, as soon as a Gruit was mentioned in an Hop City article, I was psyched! When you guys posted the specifics I got even more excited! I immediately emailed my parents (in St. Pete, I've moved to TX) asking them to go get me a growler. I'm patiently hoping they do haha...
Keep experimenting! There's a reason Cigar City has come to my attention even though I haven't lived in Tampa in years. You're blowin up! Let the haters hate
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Haha, I say keep experimenting and forget the "history police" that have nothing better to do.....pass me a pint, sounds interesting.
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yeah i'm pretty sure 95% of the beers we drink these days are very different than their historic counterparts, but somehow everyone is up in arms over this one being classified a "gruit."
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Had it last night at Mr. Dunderbak's as part of Pints for Prostates. Very good stuff. Cheers!
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