Brewers Experiment by Distilling Beers

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  1. BeerAdvocate

    BeerAdvocate Admin (4,017) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    Bierschnaps originated in Bavaria, where brewers with on-site stills often create a house spirit from leftover beer. Recently, more breweries outside of Germany are experimenting with the beery spirit.

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    hoponit Savant (1,091) Mar 3, 2003 New York

    In NYC, Arcane Distilling has been producing a series of "beer whiskies", vacuum distilling from a variety of local beers that are contributed by the brewers. Strong Rope has supplied both a barleywine and a smoked amber for the project. The latter whiskey was particularly flavorful and reminiscent of the original beer. I can't wait to try the newest, a distillation of an IPA.
     
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    Keene Initiate (0) Sep 11, 2009 Washington

    Thanks for the tip. I guess we could have run a longer article!
     
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  4. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
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    The current one works well as a snapshot. But the basic idea could also be the basis for an interesting series of short articles with a bit more of the history and additional examples since some of this has been going on in other widely scattered cases for more than a couple of years and it may be a growing trend we'll see more.

    e.g.:

    http://www.beerscenemag.com/2011/04/distilling-beer/

    http://www.eater.com/drinks/2016/5/18/11693112/beer-whiskey-craft-pa-wheat-ale-arcane
     
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