On Thanksgiving day I did just that (our family would have our Thanksgiving on Saturday, so I had a free day), and here's what happened. In that segment, they described how they toasted the nuts they use for their beer. Kudos to my friend Peter Symons, who filled in for Jamil in the interview segment. Then in September, 'Can You Brew It?' did a clone recipe for Australia's Holgate brewery's Nut Brown Ale. Here's the recipe, converted to my efficiency.Ħ gallons | 58% Efficiency | OG 1.058 | FG 1.012 | 37 IBUs | 76 SRM | 90 minute boil I have had it floating around just in case I ever wanted to brew it. In August 2009, Can You Brew It? came up with a clone recipe for Obsidian Black Butte Porter. Inspired by Can You Brew It? on The Brewing Network and (512) Brewery's flagship beer, I decided to make a Pecan Porter. All because some busybody reasoned that C-stores sell beer, teens hang out at C-stores, therefore, teens buy beer at C-stores. So if you are going skiing in Colorado, and you drink light beer, you won't be able to get it in a bar.

Beginning in January, liquor stores and bars will no longer be allowed to sell Budweiser, Miller, Coors and Guinness. (The law was imposed to keep higher alcohol beers out of convenience stores because teens with fake IDs tend to hang out there.)įiguring that if they can't sell high alcohol beers, grocery and convenience store owners asked the legislature if they would start enforcing the tiered sales system. Liquor stores and bars, who opposed the law change, can sell beers with higher alcohol, but were not legally allowed to sell those low alcohol beers, but law enforcement always looked the other way. They have been restricted to selling lower alcohol beers, like Budweiser, Coors and Guinness. Use: Probably best used in English styles especially English clone recipes that call for lighter colored crystal malts.For the last three years, convenience and grocery store owners in Colorado have been lobbying the state legislature for the right to sell high alcohol beer. It may make your English styles more, you know, English. I found this malt to be available on a few homebrew websites, so pick some up when you have the chance. You can get American caramel malt that fits the same Lovibond color range but it won’t taste the same…similar probably, but not the same. Not sure where the name came from, but using everything I read, I can make these statements with confidence:Ĭarastan is a label used for British Crystal malts that lie in the 30 to 37°L range that impart a rich, toffee flavor to your beer. They are a UK malt producer and had Carastan malt as one of their products. I found a bunch of sources that discussed this malt and most trails led to Bairds Malt Ltd. Mike recently brewed this English Bitter using Carastan malt to get a real toffee flavor.

Carastan malt beersmith