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Cranberry Wheat Ale
Posted on January 08, 2007 at 11:30 PM in Our Brews
Cranberry Wheat started out as a summer seasonal beer, only available in the Yukon and only from about Victoria Day till Labour Day (no snarky comments about the length of a Yukon summer, please!). The beer grew immensely popular as the word got out...the last summer that the beer was only available seasonally (2003) the summer supply sold out in mid-June! The following spring, we decided (actually, we just got tired of being asked) to develop packaging and launch the brand full-time.
And, being smart guys who learn from their experience, we made sure that we had lots available for the summer! So, this time we ran out in early July instead of mid-June. This beer has been doing so well in the Yukon, we decided to let the bear lose in the rest of Canada. You’ll be finding it very soon in B.C. and in Alberta. Why is the beer so popular? First things first...flavour!
We have tried a number of different fruit beers, and always found them, well, too fruity. But cranberries, especially Yukon cranberries, are tart – very tart. So, they kind of act like a slice of lemon or lime. And, many people drink wheat beers with a slice...in this beer, it’s kind of built-in. Like many wheat beers, it is unfiltered so that the tangy flavour of the yeast can mingle with the tangy flavour of the wheat.
We do use local cranberries, by the way, when they are available. That means in the fall, after a good berry season. It is extremely weather-dependent. When they are not available fresh, we use a 100% natural cranberry concentrate that we purchase fresh-frozen from Quebec City.
Comments
seoindex said on June 06, 2008 at 11:10 AM
I would like to see a continuation of the topic
uncorinaivavy said on November 16, 2007 at 2:36 AM
Two new studies show why some people are more attractive for members of the opposite sex than others.
The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.
It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.