Source: HCPress.com
Torn between having a delicious and crisp beer or enjoying the various flavors of a Manhattan, Sazerac, or Olde Fashioned? Fear not, according to HCPress.com Peabody Brewing Company has come out with two new lines of cocktail flavored beers, BLENDICULOUS and COCKTAIL.
The idea is to use freshly dumped barrels from high-end distilleries to store the beer. This allows the beer to take on a new flavor profiles. “The barrel is what makes the different cocktail beers. The idea behind the cocktail series is to collaborate with brewing friends, source the perfect barrel for the flavor profile while creating a beer that emulates a cocktail.” Said Peabody’s manager, Chris Riley.
Source: HCPress.com
Specifically, the COCKTAIL Series uses one type of liquor barrel to gain its cocktail flavoring, while the BLENDICULOUS series goes through multiple treatments of liquor barrels to ultimately create a more blended flavor.
According to HCPress.com, “The beers tend to be high in alcoholic content, which ranges from 8-12 percent. The majority of the beers are between 10-12 percent alcoholic content. These beers are better with time and are meant to cellar, which can potentially change some of the characteristics. Aging will bring out certain undertones, and layers and some beers will become stronger and “boozier” as they cellar.”
This could provide an interesting conundrum for bar owners and managers. While beers are traditionally served in specific types of glasses, could new flavor profiles and cocktail-inspired flavors cause a change in traditional beer drinking glassware? Could the alcoholic intensity of the beers need different barware to enhance the experience? All things that need to be looked at and examined whenever a new trend is on the rise.
Check out more at https://www.hcpress.com/asu-news/peabodys-introduces-exclusive-collaborative-craft-beer-series-cocktail-blendiculous.html
– S. Jones
