One of the highlights of the night will be a special offering from Roughtail Brewing:
A couple years back, Roughtail produced a special beer for ZooBrew. The idea was to create a beer based in some way on plants or food consumed by animals at the zoo. The result was Bamboo IPA, a beer brewed using huge amounts of bamboo tea leaves.
Roughtail is revisiting the idea this year with a special IPA -- Monkey Shines IPA -- that features bananas.
So what is the beer all about? I checked in with Roughtail to get the scoop.
"We brewed a German Hefeweizen base beer with a large percentage of wheat malt, and hop-bursted it in the whirlpool with Citra and El Dorado hops," said Tony Tielli, Roughtail brewmaster. "(We) fermented it with a classic German Hefeweizen yeast strain to bring strong notes of banana and milder notes of cloves to the tropical fruit/citrus flavor and aroma of the hops. We finished it with a large dry hop of Citra and El Dorado."
And to really drive home the banana flavor, "We threw a bunch of bananas in after fermentation to really ramp up the banana-ness," Tielli said.
The beer will check in with a medium body and about 6% ABV, and I would expect it to go fast tonight.
It's hard to say in beer that someone's doing something that no one has done before, but I can say that this is an approach that I've not seen before. I'm curious to see how this beer turned out.
Moving on, how about a look at a whole bunch of new beer labels for our Oklahoma brewers?
September has seen several label approvals from federal regulators. Let's start with Elk Valley, where you will probably soon have a few options to look for at your local bar, including Pumpion Pumpkin Spiced Ale, low-point Oatmeal Stout and Sunset Saison:
Next, (405) Brewing of Norman is continuing to expand its line-up of packaged offerings. They are approved for labels for (405) Brown, described as a southern brown ale, and FDR imperial coffee stout:
Next is another offering from The Willows Family Ales, Heath Sweat Gose:
This next one is near and dear to my heart. Several years ago, I blogged about Beavers Bend Brewery, which is located in the Broken Bow area in McCurtain County. So far, Beavers Bend has been available only on tap at a few locations in the county, but it appears they are branching out some. They've just been approved for their first bottled offering, the low-point Fleucy Creek Pale Ale:
And lastly, looks like Mustang will re-introduce its winter seasonal, Winter Ale:
That's it for today. I'll be at ZooBrew tonight, so say hello if you spot me.
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