Got to keep this short. I can tell you the Harry S Truman presidential library is outstanding, that I’m looking forward to learning all about Boulevard Brewing’s many wheat beers tomorrow morning, and that after that we’ll head off for Norman, Oklahoma, in a dead sprint. Because Wednesday we’re touring the National Weather Center. Cool, huh?
So before I forget to mention the pear beer (simply known as Pear Beer) I had last week . . . it was also brewed with elderberry flowers and quince. Pretty good, delicate but possessing enough character that it would likely be excellent with cheese.
Care to guess the brewery that made this beer?
No idea about Pear Beer, but enjoy Boulevard! One of my favorite breweries… partly because I grew up just down the road from there, I guess.
At the National Weather Center, if you run into Greg Carbin, WCM at the Storm Prediction Center, tell him hi from the Chief Beer Officer of Pleasant Hill, MO (I’m a NWS Meteorologist and one of your subscribers too)
Joe – So you were traded to Belgium for Steven Pauwels?
Hmmm. Pear and Elderflower sounds suspiciously like a beer that I brewed based on a third hand account of a brewer’s seminar allegedly presented by a brewer from the AB pilot brewery. Have they no shame? 😉
I’m going to boast now that my pear beer won a best in show in the SNAFU Winterfest and is the Papago Brewing entry in the GABF Pro-Am. I’d love to hear your thoughts, Stan, either in Phoenix or Denver.
olllllo are you saying you got the Pear Beer idea from Michelob or that got it from you?
Or perhaps it is just coincidence.
Anyway, yes it at the Michelob Brewery (formerly the pilot brewery) within the Anheuser-Busch complex in St. Louis. My first mission was to talk about wheat beers, but they also had me taste three experimental beers that may never be served outside of a few festival and special events.
The other two were an imperial stout and a double IPA brewed with 8% rye (measured, as opposed to claimed, IBUs of 99). Both well executed but finding those styles isn’t hard these days.
A Pear Beer on the other hand . . . I’ll look forward to trying that during GABF.
Stan, I got the idea from Ron Kloth of Papago Brewing who got the information at a brewer’s seminar presented by one of the AB pilot brewers. So, in fact, I nicked it from the macro- you can file that under Home/Craft brewers seek to gain a piece of the macro brewing pilot market.
We didn’t get a precise grain bill or yeast information or hop bill and only some guidelines about the elderflower addition.
I hope to see 1 or 2 more pear beers out in the wild. Then it’ll be a movement! But is it extreme?