Before you even think of brewing this recipe, make sure you either have powdered peanut butter, or you have de-oiled your peanut butter. For the few people who really know me, I’m freakishly addicted to Reese’s Peanut butter cups. So much so that I can’t have them in the house or I’ll inhale them. With that said, I’ve been contemplating brewing a Peanut Butter beer for a very long time.
After 2 months, we finally had our Beer Blogger Brewoff tasting. It was amazing the quality and variety of beer made from such a simple 5.5% abv stout. I applaud Aaron, Derek, Erik, Joseph and Nate for coming through with some very creative and tasty beers. With all our beers brewed, mailed, and ready to be consumed; six of us got together on a Skype conference and had a virtual tasting. It was extremely cool to share these beers while we were spread all over the country, although it felt like we were all in the same room.
Yes, you read that right. 2 weeks ago we had a blizzard here in the north east which got me thinking; “Had anyone made beer from snow?” With no positive responses, I decided, what the hell lets give this a whirl. After a quick ph test, I found the snow and my normal brewing water was the same ph, so I gave it a shot.
Since my pumpkin porter, which I still have to bottle, I haven’t brewed anything in 4 weeks. A good dry spell for me. But I heard that a NJ chain Bar, The Office Bar & Grill, was going to be having a homebrewing contest. The winner would go up to High Point Brewing in Butler NJ and get to make their beer. I don’t enter many brewing competitions, but I would love to opportunity to brew with Greg Zaccardi and Brian Baxter up at High Point. With that in mind, I’m not going to give the exact recipe this time, nor full process I used or the type and amount of coffee used. After the competition is over in Dec, I will try to update this with more exact info.
On Sunday the 12th, 9 beer bloggers virtually came together to brew a beer. But this wasn’t any ordinary beer, each beer by the completion of the brew-off will have a secret ingredient used. The concept is simple, we all brew the same recipe, adhere to the same delivery date, and can do one unique thing to our beer – the Secret Ingredient!
I came up with this idea a couple months back. I’m not entirely sure what dark unused part of my brain it was spawned from, but has been warmly received from the Beer Blogger’s I’ve approached about it. Basically the idea stemmed from seeing my fellow bloggers tweeting about brewing beer. It seems to me, you get a deeper understanding of beer when you make your own. But I digress, since I’ve been doing the Beer Brawl™ podcasts, reviewing beers, and brewing them, I thought it would be fun to combine it all together! So, I enlisted the help of some beer bloggers you probably know…
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