22 Jan
2002
22 Jan
'02
3:07 p.m.
If I could obtain some of the herb they use in place of flavoring hops and
brewed an Irish red ale (as they do) it sounds like it might be a match for
the category 22 Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer but I still wouldn't have an
underlying beer style.
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From: Erik Nelson[SMTP:braumeister@mn.astound.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 1:06 PM
To: Crist, Jonathan
Cc: mba(a)thebarn.com
Subject: Re: where to Irish beers/Irish red ales fall in the BJCP
guidelines?
At 02:00 PM 1/22/02 -0500, you wrote:
Jonathan,
Irish ale or Irish red ale do not fall into any of the guidelines. They
used to have them, but not many people made them so they were taken
off. That is what happened to the Scandinavian/Dutch Pilsner also
Erik Nelson
I saw the posting on the Yahoo site about class #5
I have a few cans of Smithwick's and Kilkenny, and one precious bottle of
Biddy Early Irish Red Ale. The Biddy Early may actually be an herb beer
(they claim it to be the only Irish herb beer on their web site)
Michael Jackson declared Biddy Early to be the best example of an Irish
Red
Ale
So which category do these fall into? I think when I tried to enter a few
years back they directed me to use the Northern Brown ale as the closest
match. If they match for week 5 I'll bring them as commercial examples