Brew York Tonkoko (cask)
Brew York Tonkoko
En Milkstout på 4,3%.
Bryggeriet skriver:
Tonka beans, hand-toasted coconut, Madagascan vanilla and Belgian sourced cacao nibs combine to make this one silky smooth and indulgent milk stout. Many have called it liquid Bounty! We built a custom infusion vessel to make this beer; we hope you think it was worth it!
THE HEREDITY OF AN EMPRESS
Tonkoko is the go-to milk stout in our core range and ever since it was released we’ve been thinking of how to take this award-winning formula to newer, crazier heights. We first made the bigger version, Imperial Tonkoko, back in 2017 and the ‘double everything’ approach worked an absolute dream bringing out an all new classic to the Brew York beer range. This 7.5% Imperial variation hit the world to much acclaim, winning numerous awards and even being voted in the top ten best stouts in the world by Rate Beer (it even peaked at 2nd for a brief moment!). Never resting on our laurels we decided to push on, go bigger, go crazier, it’s what we do at Brew York. So in 2018, for the Tryanuary campaign, we came up with the idea to make this already stunning beer, better. Bigger. We wanted to ‘imperialise the Imperial’… so, Empress Tonkoko was conceived.
On the day of brewing Empress Tonkoko we invited some of our friends from near and far in the beer community to muck in and help put a local stamp on this brew. Local CAMRA members, beer bloggers, friends and family all came along at a frankly daft time in the morning to get brewing to bring our vision to life. It took the already huge malt bill from Imperial Tonkoko and doubled it, it also doubled the amount of coconut, vanilla, cacao and the now much used Tonka. Brewing and adjunct prep took pretty much the entire day and that attention to detail and love put into the brew came out in the final beer. Upon launch it became a fan favourite with its surprisingly easy drinking 10.6% belying the super rich chocolate notes mixed with the fragrant headiness of the Tonka and vanilla. It was a belter to be fair.
Every year now we make this magnificent brew and we always try to release it for the Tryanuary campaign in memory of the very first brew made. A nod to everything we hold dear; friends, family and great beers. This year is no different, apart from the amount we can now produce! With the expansion of the brewery up to our site in Osbaldwick and our ever-increasing ability to place beer into barrels we can now make this stupendous beer into larger batches, into differing styles of barrel and also try out some new tech to make a very first for us, for example a nitro version of this super Imperial, but more on that later…
Left Hand Milk Stout
Fra Left Hand Brewing Company i Longmont, Colorado, kommer denne Milk Stout, som riktignok ikke inneholder helmelk, men en dose melkesukker (laktose). Melkesukker har den utmerkede egenskap at det ikke er forgjærbart av ølgjær på vanlig gjæringstemperatur. En stout som gjærer veldig langt ned på maltsukkerinnholdet (og dermed ville blitt svært "tørr") beholder likevel en fin og balansert sødme når vørteren har vært tilsatt en passende dose melkesukker. Det noe økte næringsinnholdet som dette medfører, ble i England i sin tid ansett som svært gunstig "for rekonvalesenter og ammende mødre". I dag tør vi slett ikke antyde noen direkte medisinsk effekt, men nøyer oss med å fastslå at ølet har en tendens til å frambringe et smil om munnen hos alle ølvenner som setter pris på en rund og velbalansert stout.
Mørk brun farge, nesten svart, med et fint og varig lysebrunt skum.
Fin røstet aroma, toner av kakao, hint av lakris.
Smaken har rikelig med røstet malt og laktosesødme, også toner av sjokolade, mild kaffe og noe lakris.
Gode saker!