Na Zdravi !: Breakfast Hustle

Monday, March 23, 2020

Breakfast Hustle

"Coffee Cake Golden Stout. We teamed up with our good friends out of Berkeley, Fieldwork Brewing Company, to brew a new style to us, a golden stout. We’re both known to make some pretty funky beers so we didn’t want to just make it any boring golden stout. We took the base and conditioned it on a Valiant Coffee Roasters blend, cinnamon, cacao, and Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla."

Loaded with deliciousness. The coffee is in the back somewhere which makes way for the cacao and vanilla to shine through.
A most excellent desert beer!

ABV 7.5%

Na Zdravi!

A 10-second take.
Not really reviews, just my way to keep track of the beers I've tried.

My mother's family is Czech. They emigrated from Bohemia and settled in Nebraska in the mid-1800s.
They were from the region that included the town Pilzen (Pilsen) where a brewery called Měšťanský pivovar Plzeň, now Pilsner Urquell (Plzeňský Prazdroj in Czech), started brewing a uniquely Bohemian-style beer we now know as pilsner.
So, as I raise a glass in honor of my Bohemian roots ...

Na Zdravi! (to your health).

Hops?

A "hop" is the cone shaped resinous flower of the female hop plant. It is used in brewing to add bitterness, flavor, aroma, and stability depending on when it is added.

Hops are one of the 4 basic ingredients of beer although they are not esential in the brewing process. The are used simply to add flavor and complexity to the brew.
Double and even triple IPA's feature an extreme amount of hops, and an ABV to match.
Noble Hops - The traditional varieties of hops that were used to make early European beers. Medieval brewers used Hallertau, Saaz, Spalt, and/or Tettnang hops. All are from Germany except Saaz from the Czech Republic (Žatec in Czech). All are still used today.