{"id":7134,"date":"2013-06-24T23:13:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T22:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2013-06-24T23:13:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T22:13:28","slug":"buchwider-brau-%ce%ba%e2%82%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/buchwider-brau-%ce%ba%e2%82%81\/","title":{"rendered":"Buchwider Br\u00e4u \u03ba\u2081"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/9121547224\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5507\/9121547224_9c2fa2d18e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\u03ba\u2081\" width=\"240px\" class=\"size-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/9121547224\/\">\u03ba\u2081<\/a>, a photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a> on Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>I brewed Buchwider Br\u00e4u \u03ba\u2081 on 7th February.  It&#8217;s a Berliner Wei\u00dfe clone, and it&#8217;s only just becoming drinkable now, which is completely normal for that type of beer &#8212; it&#8217;s recommended to leave six months between brewing and drinking.  (For the first three months after bottling, it had a horrible sulphuric smell.)<\/p>\n<p>I brewed it used Wyeast&#8217;s <i>Activator 3191-PC Berliner-Weisse Blend<\/i>, and although many people recommend using separate yeast and lactobacillus, this blend seemed to do the trick.  Contact me if you&#8217;re interested in the recipe!<\/p>\n<p>Berliner Wei\u00dfe is a sour beer, very similar to a Belgian lambic.  Some people like it on its own, but most will want to drink it <i>mit Schuss<\/i>, i.e., with fruit syrup.  On the photo, I&#8217;ve added rhubarb syrup, but I can also recommend woodruff syrup, which produces a brilliant green colour and a unique taste!<\/p>\n<p>The beer is extremely weak (only 2.7%), so it&#8217;s great for drinking in the sun when you don&#8217;t really want to get drunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I brewed Buchwider Br\u00e4u \u03ba\u2081 on 7th February. It&#8217;s a Berliner Wei\u00dfe clone, and it&#8217;s only just becoming drinkable now, which is completely normal for that type of beer &#8212; it&#8217;s recommended to leave six months between brewing and drinking. (For the first three months after bottling, it had a horrible sulphuric smell.) I brewed it used Wyeast&#8217;s Activator 3191-PC Berliner-Weisse Blend, and although many people recommend using separate yeast and lactobacillus, this blend seemed to do the trick. Contact me if you&#8217;re interested in the recipe! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brewing","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}