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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2021-08-06 11:42 pm
ysabetwordsmith) wrote2021-08-06 11:42 pm
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Batch Brewing Company
My partner Doug tipped me to the Batch Brewing Company in Detroit. In addition to many interesting beers, they also have an unusually diverse menu.
BONUS BEAT - Blood orange wheat beer w/ coriander 5.6% 16 oz DRAFT $6.00
This one made me smile, because it's a cooking beer. Now once upon a time, it was common to make cooking ingredients and medicinal materials in an alcoholic base. They weren't meant to drink for flavor. Over the years, this gradually dwindled, and what survived was a much narrower range of beverage alcohols. Enter the artisan brewers. These people not only experiment on their own, they're highly prone to research old recipes. But the old recipes often are not marked as to purpose -- people just knew -- and modern brewers don't always realize when they've picked something that wasn't meant to be a beverage. Sometimes this results in rather wretched beverages, which would still be excellent for cooking. The clue in the above example is that it includes a fruit and a spice, which is a very common combination for culinary brews. You'd use it to make a fruity holiday bread or a salad dressing or a beer-butt chicken. There's even a good chance that modern version has been tweaked to be drinkable, but it would probably still work as a culinary beer.
I love history. And I love kitchen chemistry.
BONUS BEAT - Blood orange wheat beer w/ coriander 5.6% 16 oz DRAFT $6.00
This one made me smile, because it's a cooking beer. Now once upon a time, it was common to make cooking ingredients and medicinal materials in an alcoholic base. They weren't meant to drink for flavor. Over the years, this gradually dwindled, and what survived was a much narrower range of beverage alcohols. Enter the artisan brewers. These people not only experiment on their own, they're highly prone to research old recipes. But the old recipes often are not marked as to purpose -- people just knew -- and modern brewers don't always realize when they've picked something that wasn't meant to be a beverage. Sometimes this results in rather wretched beverages, which would still be excellent for cooking. The clue in the above example is that it includes a fruit and a spice, which is a very common combination for culinary brews. You'd use it to make a fruity holiday bread or a salad dressing or a beer-butt chicken. There's even a good chance that modern version has been tweaked to be drinkable, but it would probably still work as a culinary beer.
I love history. And I love kitchen chemistry.
Re: Well ...
(Anonymous) 2021-08-07 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)Me: "When I was your age we had to plug computers in the wall to get internet."
Kid: "Miss, that never happened."
Me: [Thinking] Well, now I feel old.
I also vaguely remember when we could greet / bid farewell to travellers at the gate, not at security.
I do like history, so I have reading and stories to know about things from before I was born. Makes for an interesting worldview...and some interesting problem-solving.
From ysabet's my_partner_doug
(Anonymous) 2021-08-07 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)Re: From ysabet's my_partner_doug
(Anonymous) 2021-08-07 07:27 pm (UTC)(link):)
I like the lyrics on this - it actually reminds me of the end credits for Wall-E, with all the different animations.
I especially liked the:
"And we programmed in ones and in zeros
And sometimes we ran out of ones."