Born on January 17th 2011
Here it is folks, the moment we've been waiting for...
Commissar Russian Imperial Stout hits the taps today, Monday January 17th 2011 @ 4:00 pm. Three months in the making, fortified with bourbon, infused with vanilla beans and aged on oak this is sex in a glass. It's rich and luscious and at 10% ABV not to be messed with.
Enjoy.
Vital Stats:
Gravity - 22.9P/1.097
IBUs ~ 97
Hop Rate – 2.5 lbs/bbl
ABV - 10.0 %
Hops - Columbus, Centennial, Sorachi Ace
Colour ~ 55 SRM
Malts - Pale Ale, Crystal30, Crystal 75, Melanoidin, Chocolate
Adjuncts - Roasted barley, Dark Candi Syrup
Other - Bulliet Bourbon, Madagascar vanilla beans, Oak Spirals
Inspiration for the name comes from Russian revolutionist and later to be People's Commissar and founder of the Red Army
Leon Trotsky who was taken prisoner here in Halifax by the British
military in 1917 then held at a concentration
camp in Amherst, NS until his release some time later. Read Trotsky's
own account of the ordeal in his 1930 autobiography 'My Life'
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment