Think stretchy pizza dough says Allagash Brewing Company, a craft brewer of fine American wheat beers (photo #5). These same proteins make wheat exceptional for baking. That’s because the proteins and starches in the wheat want to bind, making it trickier to extract the sugars. Barley malt is easier to brew with, while wheat beers are exceptionally hard to brew. The ones we tried were so enjoyable, we’re thinking about a “beertail” get-together. Cocktails: There are quite a few beer cocktail recipes on the website.Dessert: The beers are a natural with baked goods, fruit desserts, and sorbet.The fruitiness complemented the chile flavors. Food: We first tried the beers with Mexican food.Try them with just about any food where you’d like to pair a fruity, slightly sweet beverage. Right now, the colors of the beers resemble the colors of the turning fall leaves. The three fruit flavors-Grapefruit, Passionfruit, and Pomegranate-are enjoyable year-round. There’s lots of fruit flavor and some sparkle, with a depth of hefeweizen flavor. These 50% fruit juice beers are what you’d imagine a fruity, soft-drink version of beer to be. All are 50% fruit juice and 100% delicious. Schöfferhofer Grapefruit took off, engendering Passionfruit and Pomegranate versions. (Although a Schaarbeekse krieken, a cherry kriek from Belgium, is really nice with a chocolate dessert.) Schöfferhofer, a German brewer, was the first brewery to blend 50% Hefeweizen beer with 50% grapefruit juice, creating a refreshing taste experience that to us, is so much more alluring than the Belgian lambics we’ve tried. Hefeweizen is one of the types of wheat beer ( see the rest below). It’s a lighter style on the opposite spectrum of what we personally prefer (IPA, Porter, Stout).īut Schöfferhofer showed us a different take on the German tradition of premium wheat beer, with their Hefeweizen mix. Experiencing new categories or sub-categories of food and drink makes it a good day. Following on the heels of eating good food, the second-best part of our job is the thrill of discovery.

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