This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 236: August 24, 2015
Diary entry:
Another Monday, and quite a long one at that!
Got to work around 7:30, and fully expected to be out of the office by 5:00. Unfortunately, I didn’t wind up leaving until almost 8:00PM! Consolidating the feedback on the task I helped organize a few weeks back, and trying to turn this into a usable format took the morning, part of the afternoon, and the end of the day hours, with a full day of other meetings thrown in. Surprisingly, almost all for project 2…I don’t think I spent more than a few minutes on either of the other projects today!
The Beer:
Name: La Renaissance Barrel Aged 1 Year
Style: English IPA
Producer: Brouwerij De Dochter van de Korenaar
Alcohol content: 7.0%
Bottle size: 0.5l
Purchased from: De Hopduvel in Ghent, Belgium
La Renaissance Barrel Aged 1 Year by De Dochter van de Korenaar. Old School English Style, barrel-aged IPA. A fine IPA. Nice citrus bitterness, smoothed by the barrel. Perhaps a hint of vanilla underneath from the Chardonnay barrels. Delicious!
Commercial Description:
In our hunger to explore the true taste of an original I.P.A (India Pale Ale), we went back to the very roots of I.P.A.; England around 1830. This beer is made with 100% ‘Maris Otter’ malt and East Kent Goldings hop flowers (a lot!) Then to monitor the development of flavors during barrel-aging the beer is/will be bottled after half a year; one year and one and a half year of barrel-aging (in Puligny Montrachet barrels). For comparison, the beer is also bottled without barrel aging.
So 4 batches will be released as an experiment. The release dates will be (were): End April 2014; end October 2014 and finally with the full 1 1/2 years of barrel-aging by the end of April 2015. I hope you enjoy a truly magnificent beer-style that was almost forgotten, but has a real revival lately.
Cheeers!
Ronald Mengerink, Brewerof ‘De Dochter van de Korenaar’
