Beer Name: Squash Your Enemies
Style: Belgian Golden Strong with Butternut Squash
ABV: 7.8%
Color: Lightly-caramelized butternut squash
Cheese Pairing: Tomme
Food Pairing: Chicken under a brick
Music Pairing (Jimbo's Choice): "Scream at the Night" by Revered Peyton's Big Damn Band
Music Pairing (Jared's Choice): "I Can't Wake Up" by KRS-One
Best Occasion to Drink: While plotting revenge
Brewers' Notes: We wanted to brew up somethin' extra special for the nice fall weather,* and we wanted somethin' extra special for a super-secret barrel project for future times, so we grabbed up a couple bushels of butternut squash and then pretty much immediately realized that, holy shit, a bushel is a lot** of squash and then just used one bushel. Anyway, we roasted them suckers on up with a pinch o' brown sugar and crammed 'em into the mash and now we've got this big ol' squash beer!
It's fun to say squash. Squash! Squashsquashsquash!
* You know, for the six whole (non-consecutive) days of fall that we get every year
** According to Doctor Google, it's 64 pints and honestly that raises more questions than it answers. Like, why not just say 8 gallons? Or: what the hell kind of measurement system is this? That sort of thing.
Style: Belgian Golden Strong with Butternut Squash
ABV: 7.8%
Color: Lightly-caramelized butternut squash
Cheese Pairing: Tomme
Food Pairing: Chicken under a brick
Music Pairing (Jimbo's Choice): "Scream at the Night" by Revered Peyton's Big Damn Band
Music Pairing (Jared's Choice): "I Can't Wake Up" by KRS-One
Best Occasion to Drink: While plotting revenge
Brewers' Notes: We wanted to brew up somethin' extra special for the nice fall weather,* and we wanted somethin' extra special for a super-secret barrel project for future times, so we grabbed up a couple bushels of butternut squash and then pretty much immediately realized that, holy shit, a bushel is a lot** of squash and then just used one bushel. Anyway, we roasted them suckers on up with a pinch o' brown sugar and crammed 'em into the mash and now we've got this big ol' squash beer!
It's fun to say squash. Squash! Squashsquashsquash!
* You know, for the six whole (non-consecutive) days of fall that we get every year
** According to Doctor Google, it's 64 pints and honestly that raises more questions than it answers. Like, why not just say 8 gallons? Or: what the hell kind of measurement system is this? That sort of thing.