What do you do with some day-old bread… besides eat it? If you are Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop, or Anchorage Brewing Company, you make an avant-garde Belgian wit-bier with it. Some 130 pounds of day-old sourdough bread from the delicious Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop were added to Anchorage Brewing’s mash tun to make this untraditional wheat beer. Wit-bier by definition is a Belgian-style wheat beer with as much as 50% wheat in the mash. It is spiced with coriander and orange peel. The world’s most famous wit-bier, Hoegaarden, made in a huge factory in Hoegaarden, Belgium makes the whole town smell like SweeTARTS candy. ABC’s Day Old White Beer is a good representation of the style despite its unique addition of whole loaves of Alaskan sourdough bread. I thought I would taste some sour notes, or funk, but I guess that was all killed in the boil. Delicious beer made by one of my favorite breweries and tied to my favorite neighborhood bakery! If you haven’t had some baked goods from Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop, you are due to take a field trip there and get some goodness! Also get in to ABC to pick up a four pack of some of the last remaining cans of Day Old White Beer, as this is probably a one of a kind batch.
Cheers to Anchorage making some artisanal goodies!
The original oil painting was a commission, but 52 limited-edition prints are available at our Etsy shop RealArtIsBetter.
Thirsty Thursday Beer Painting #133. Day Old Wheat Beer by Anchorage Brewing Co. 8″x10″, oil on panel. By Scott Clendaniel
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