Showing posts with label Ungstrup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ungstrup. Show all posts

Aug 27, 2008

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
www.Ratebeer.com er verdens største øldatabase med over 80.000 forskellige øl fra 8400 forskellige bryggerier registreret, som har næsten 1,8 millioner anmeldelser, foretaget af mange tusinde brugere fra hele verden. Danmark er det næstmest aktive land på RateBeer kun overgået af USA. Det skyldes blandt andet den eksplosion af nye danske bryggerier og nye danske øl, som vi har set over de seneste år, men også at internet penetrationen er blandt verdens højeste og at der findes et meget stærkt netværk blandt de danske brugere af RateBeer.

Apr 10, 2008

Ungstrups Smoked Barely Wine







So we finished up the special brew, we have yet to lable it and perhaps it still needs a while to mature in the bottles. we made 540 x 750ml corked bottles and 26 x 15 liter kegs. Its finished around 10.3% alcohol which is well hidden as there is a massive amount of residual sugar (Body). It's smokeyness is not as strong as I had thought would it would be, It has a definate smokey aroma and a bacon like flavor.... I'm going to let Jens do the rest of the reviewing on this beer.
Jens of course will distribute the beer to his favorate beer events, bars and shops.

Mar 12, 2008

Celebrating 10,000 reviews on Ratebeer



Saturday the 8th of March we had a special guest come and brew a small batch with us at Gourmet Bryggeriet / Ølfabrikken.

Jens Ungstrup celebrating his 10,000th documented beer rating on the infamous beer rating site ratebeer.com, he is the first on ratebeer to reach so many ratings. As a brewer I have always respected Jens's ratings as they are thoughtful and honest. All 10,000 of them!


I have spent time with Jens seeing him on a rate rampage believe me he is very commited to seeking out new beer to rate, he is hardcore!


We promised to brew him a beer which strangely enough fell on Gourmet Bryggeriet's 1001th brew... so another milestone was passed that day as well. He asked for a smoked barley wine, thats what he got...


The beer ...

Grain bill:

330 kgs Pilsner malt

100 kg Weyermann Smoked malt

25 kg Castle malting's peated smoked malt

25 kg Thomas fawcett Crystal malt


Hops:

Bittering (60 mins of boiling) 2 kg Chinook hops

Flavor / Aroma (15 mins) Mt. Hood hops


Adjuncts:

50 kg Brown sugar in kettle full.


Yeast:

Wyeast London Ale


Orginal Gravity: 24 plato

Final gravity (Still fermenting today it was down to 9 plato)

in the fermenter we put 1000 liters of cold wort.


I will update the beer as it is finishing up.


This beer will be given to Jens to celebrate how he likes! I hope Im invited to the party...


Mike