Filed under: Scratch Beer — TicecloseAuthor: TiceName: Tice About: Andrew Tice is one of Troegs' Top-6 current brewers. Interests include brewing (duh), hiking, travel, and monopolizing the Brewer's Blog. A PSU grad trying to use my MBA degree for good, one brew at a time...See Authors Posts (7) @ 5:29 pm
Hey, Scratch #28 is currently on tap at the brewery! As Tim mentioned the other day in his blog post, #28 is a Roggenbier, a pretty uncommon beer style commercially produced by only a handful of breweries. It’s essentially a German wheat beer made with a portion of rye malt, which gives the beer a nice spicy dimension. If you’re familiar with the Scratch beers, you know we can’t get enough rye, so this style was a natural for us.
For our interpretation, we took our Dreamweaver base recipe and substituted about half of the wheat with rye, added a bunch of Munich and Vienna malt, tossed in some spicy and citrusy German and American hops, and fermented it with the Andechs weizen yeast strain. The result is a really flavorful, yet dangerously drinkable German ale that offers a fresh take on the traditional Hefeweizen. (read more…)
After just over a week of us being forced to draw almost daily samples and (gasp) drink them, we’ve decided the beer is ready to rack. So far, we have a gold/light-amber pale ale base with nice hop bitterness, spicy-fruit yeast character, and the barrel-aging coming through as oak, hints of vanilla, toast, and tea. (read more…)
Filed under: Scratch Beer — TicecloseAuthor: TiceName: Tice About: Andrew Tice is one of Troegs' Top-6 current brewers. Interests include brewing (duh), hiking, travel, and monopolizing the Brewer's Blog. A PSU grad trying to use my MBA degree for good, one brew at a time...See Authors Posts (7) @ 12:56 pm
Don’t know about you, but this recent run of nice weather has me in the mood for a nice, lighter, hoppy beer. No, I’m not talking about Sunshine Pils in this particular case, although I have to say the early-season Pils we brewed for the World Beer Cup is in fine mid-season form. I’ve missed that beer, and I think it’s gonna be a great addition to the Troegs Anthology summer variety pack. Mmm Pils…
Anyway, the pale hoppy beer I’m talking about will be another in our experimental Scratch line-up, this time combining a pale base beer, a healthy amount of earthy/floral hops, an abbey yeast strain, and Pennsylvania oak. Oh, and it’s going to be bottle-conditioned (like most brewers I heart bottle-conditioned Belgian-style ales). Hopefully that’s enough interesting components to whet your beer appetites. I know it’s got me psyched. (read more…)
With Two feet of snow on the ground and highways closed, only two things came to mind: do I have enough beer? and What can I eat?! So off to the fridge I ran, plenty of Nugget Nectar and Short Ribs….two of my favorites. A few days before we had sat down with Scharffen Berger to discuss how to brew a stout with their nibs so I had some leftover chocolate I wanted to use. Short Ribs braised in mole sauce seemed fitting. I really enjoyed how it turned out and with a slow cooker, it couldn’t be easier.
What do you do when the skies deliver a mountain of snow on your doorstep? Well, according to sales rep Nick Johnson, you build a cave, stock it with Tröegs beer, and invite some friends over, what else?
Filed under: Scratch Beer — TicecloseAuthor: TiceName: Tice About: Andrew Tice is one of Troegs' Top-6 current brewers. Interests include brewing (duh), hiking, travel, and monopolizing the Brewer's Blog. A PSU grad trying to use my MBA degree for good, one brew at a time...See Authors Posts (7) @ 1:24 pm
A cool recent development around the brewery is that John (the guy with his name on the bottle) has offered to allow us hop monkeys (aka the Troegs brewing team) the chance to create upcoming beers in our Scratch Beer line. For brewers, this is the fun part. The only catch is that John reserved final veto power over any recipe, which is good and bad. Because of that, the world will never see my Imperial Rauch Pumpkin Bock, alas… But we will otherwise be unleashing our creative talents on an unsuspecting public, or at least everyone who finds their way into the tasting room.
I’ve been getting so many direct tweets and emails, not to mention hecklers in the streets, I thought I would let everyone know why we did it. When I say “it” I mean the unthinkable Dump of Scratch 26. It all starts with an empty tank. Nothing bugs me more than an empty tank. So even before the Scratch tank opens up we start dreaming up what should go into it. (read more…)
Filed under: Scratch Beer — TicecloseAuthor: TiceName: Tice About: Andrew Tice is one of Troegs' Top-6 current brewers. Interests include brewing (duh), hiking, travel, and monopolizing the Brewer's Blog. A PSU grad trying to use my MBA degree for good, one brew at a time...See Authors Posts (7) @ 9:27 pm
So the point of our Scratch Beer series is to experiment with new styles, techniques, and ingredients, throw some stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Sometimes the beers turn out just like we hoped, like Scratch #4, which became Flying Mouflan (don’t worry, it will be seen again, sometime after we brew a whole lot more Nugget Nectar this year…). And sometimes, as in the case of Scratch #26, it doesn’t quite come out the way we wanted. (read more…)
It’s that time of year where day-long firkin and cask filling marathons are the norm. A firkin is a serving vessel filled by hand directly from the fermenter, usually served on the bar top through a gravity-pour tap which is hammered in through a wooden plug. Casks are filled the same way, but resemble kegs and are served through a beer engine. We’re talking old-school here. For those in the know, it’s Real Ale… an opportunity to experience your favorite beer as the living thing it is prior to filtering out the yeast, and some would say a bit of the flavor/aroma, before bottling. In this case it’s Nugget Nectar, and lots of it. Today and tomorrow it’s firkins, and Monday it’s casks. Keep an eye on the events calendar for your chance to get Real!
Beautiful day for a clay bird shoot...but my shoulder is killing me :). Soon time for a beer. http://tweetphoto.com/41712657August 27, 2010 6:19
Team Troegs at the Ned Smith Nature center clay shoot. Chris Curt John Trogner with celeb Phil Hollen http://tweetphoto.com/41690095August 27, 2010 4:03
RT @number1hughes: 2nd Troegs Metal. Brewer champion announced : Team Kielbasa! http://twitpic.com/2gnoojAugust 21, 2010 2:10
Hey, Scratch #28 is currently on tap at the brewery! As Tim mentioned the other day in his blog post, #28 is a Roggenbier, a pretty uncommon beer style commercially produced by only a handful of breweries. It’s essentially a German wheat beer made with a portion of rye malt, which gives the beer a nice spicy dimension. If you’re familiar with the Scratch beers, you know we can’t get enough rye, so this style was a natural for us.
