Thursday, May 6, 2010

Beef into an Irish Stout

That's right people, I put beef into an Irish Stout I brewed. I searched and searched for days on how to go about adding the meat into the beer and found an answer. most commonly brewers use turkey or duck and put the whole bird into the fermenter during one of the fermentation stages. I chose to add mine into the primary because putting all that beef into the small opening of my carboy seemed like a bad idea. Now you may wonder, "what about the meat going bad in the fermenter." Well you must cook the meat first to kill anything that may ruin you beer. It is also recommended that you soak the meat in a high alcohol content wine for a day to make sure its clean. I skipped this step because I didn't want to risk a wine taste working its way into my stout. I will be bottling the stout tonight and I'll post again to let you all know how its coming along.