Peruvian Morning Recall, No Crap on Tap, and A Few More Beer Notes

D'OH!

Central Waters is recalling Peruvian Morning:

On Monday, Central Waters Brewing of Amherst, Wis., announced a recall of Peruvian Morning, its bourbon barrel-aged coffee stout. The brewery didn't offer a lot of details on what happened, fueling some speculation among the beer community.

Not every bottle is bad but apparently enough is to warrant it all being relegated to the drain.

Presumably because we're in media res of American Craft Beer Week, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a couple articles about beer.

"Beer fans have a taste for variety" is a general look at the growth of craft beer in the state while Craft beer gets herbal infusion" looks at a collaboration between Milwaukee Brewing Co. and Rishi Tea, which is also a Milwaukee company.

Milwaukee Brewing Co.'s latest release, O-Gii, gets an infusion of flavor from another local beverage, Milwaukee's Rishi Tea. Brewers Robert Morton and Kurt Mayes began collaborating on creative brews when Mayes, then a sous chef and home brewer, brought in samples of his Imperial wheat beer brewed with green tea and chamomile.

Morton describes the beer as floral and aromatic, and extremely smooth and easy drinking.

Now, Mayes works full-time at the 2nd St. brewery, and his original recipe is renamed O-Gii. It's a nod to "original gravity," the brewing calculation that yields fermentable sugars and estimates strength. The ale weighs in at 9.2% alcohol by volume, yet tastes like honey with a hint of Asian ginger and floral chamomile aromatics.





I recently noticed Chameleon Brewing's beers at the Jenifer Street Market but don't recall them at Woodman's East.

I'll have to seek out some woodruff syrup as a new Chicago brewery, Pipeworks Brewing Co., will be releasing a Berliner Weiss (among other brews) called Learning to Fly.





Lastly, the WORT Block Party will again be featuring No Crap on Tap. The beer list so far:

Great Dane: Hop Rush, Belgian Sunshine, Common Thread

Capital: Mai Bock, Weitzen, Capital Dark

Tyranena: Dirty Old Man, Stone Tepee Pale Ale, Down N' Dirty Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

Lake Louie: Coon Rock Ale, Kiss the Lips IPA, Warp Speed Scotch Ale

Ale Asylum: Sticky McDougal Scotch Ale, Contorter Porter, Hopalicious APA

House of Brews: Saison du WORT

Grumpy Troll: Norwegian Wood IPA, Free World Rocking Pilsner, Eric the Red

New Glarus: Cherry Stout, Two Women Lager, Totally Naked

Vintage II: APA, American Brown, Pilsner

Furthermore, Hydro Street, and Sweet Mullets will also be there, but we don't know what they are bringing just yet!!

I like this list better than last year's as 1) there are more lagers and 2) not everything is 8%+ ABV. It seemed like every beer last year was big enough to be a horse tranquilizer. The weather was 80+ degrees out and all that was on offer was beer meant to be sipped from a snifter next to the fireplace. My bitching apparently worked.