Ungstrup's Reserve Release Party!

So if you can recall we made a special beer for a special person, Jens Ungstrup has achieved 10,000 beer ratings on ratebeer.com So I invited him to come and brew a special beer with me and we will try to make it something special for his tastes. He was interested in a smoked beer with over 10% alcohol, hence Smoked Barley Wine. The beer was brewed back in early march, left to mature a bit and now ready to let the public try it and hopefully they can give it a good rating!

Thursday night at Brewpub Køpenhaven after 17.00 the beer will become available for consumption. I will be there along with I hope many other Local beer lovers. So I look forward to that.

This beer's proceeds have been promised to Jens's friend who helps remove land mines in Angola. Here is more info if you can understand it in Danish: http://www.noedhjaelp.dk/sider_paa_hjemmesiden/her_arbejder_vi/afrika/angola/det_goer_vi

Here is Jens's announcement:
Ungstrup’s Reserve
Ølfabrikken/Gourmetbryggeriet har brygget denne øl i anledning af at Jens Ungstrup 8. Marts 2008 blev den første ølanmelder i verden til at offentliggøre 10.000 ølanmeldelser. De 10.000 anmeldelser er tilgængelige på www.RateBeer.com.
Øllen blev brygget 8. Marts og har lagret siden for at modne, men bør kunne holde sig mange år fremover.
Øllen er en Smoked Barley Wine brygget af: Pilsner malt og røgmalt, såvel Bamberg som peated, brun farin og Mt. Hood humle. Den holder 10,3% alcohol. Ølstilen er valgt af Jens og har været et flerårigt ønske fra hans side om at smage en røget Barley Wine.
Dog har der så vidt vides tidligere været brygget noget lignende 2 gange i verden, også begge gange som en specialøl tilgængelig i et begrænset tidsrum.
Der er brygget 1000 liter af øllen, som vil være tilgængelig på nogle af landets bedste barer og i nogle af landets bedste ølbutikker henholdsvis på fad og flaske.
Al overskuddet fra salg af øllet går til Folkekirkens Nødhjælps arbejde med minerydning i Angola.
Baggrund
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Brewing a Fresh Hopped Beer

Hello, it's been a while with anything news worthy and well it was a nice summer here in Denmark ...

I have decided to finally brew a "wet hopped" beer Euro style. (Since I can’t really get a hold of wet hops from the USA). I am at the moment mashed in for the one time brewing of this beer. I will hope to make 25hl of this beer which I haven’t a name decided yet but I’m tinkering with these 2... Hopfenzupfer meaning hop picking or Hopfenhammer which means Great hops. I will hope to have this beer ready for the European Beer Festival in Copenhagen, so I will have to push it a bit.

A few details about what I'm doing:

The beer will be a simple Pilsner or "Kellerbier" which will be the frame for the massive amount of hops going into the brew. I will use over 50kg of wet hops Hallertau Mittelfruher type this hop is a wonderful aroma type. I picked them up this morning around 1030 in a little town not far from Munich, I then proceeded directly to the brewery in Roskilde (10hours later) I am starting the brew. The reason I am not waiting until tomorrow is that these hops don’t last long unless they are dried... Hence the name “Wet Hop”. They weigh quite a bit more than dried hops so the 50kg I use is more like 10 -15 kg of dried hops. I wish you all could smell the inside of my car! I was loving it all the way home.

I will update about this beer and I am eagerly waiting to taste it....