{"id":16139,"date":"2017-01-06T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=16139"},"modified":"2017-01-04T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:45:14","slug":"beer-of-the-week-council-beatitude-boysenberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/01\/06\/beer-of-the-week-council-beatitude-boysenberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Council Be\u00e1titude Boysenberry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Council Brewing’s B\u00e9atitude Boysenberry imperial tart saison aged in bourbon barrels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Beer Writer:\u00a0<\/strong>Few are the fruits that haven’t made it into the sour fruit of\u00a0Council Brewing Company<\/strong><\/a>‘s labor care of its ever-changing line-up of tart saisons. One that was particularly successful gained its assertive flavor\u00a0character from boysenberries. It was such a fruitful addition to the beer-board that head brewer Liz Chism<\/strong> decided to not just bring it back, but employ oak-barrel maturation when doing so. Enter\u00a0Council B\u00e9atitude Boysenberry<\/strong>, an imperialized (i.e., higher-alcohol) version of the beer that spent several months in bourbon whiskey barrels. Though the beer is over double the strength of\u00a0its progenitor and is big on acidity, it drinks smooth and easy. Its bouquet reminds me of wine grapes at first sniff, with an interesting PB&J quality arising\u00a0upon further analysis. On the tongue, the beer\u00a0conveys fruit-forward flavors that remind me of\u00a0home-made boysenberry pie filling minus the sugar. There is a touch of sweetness and very slight traces of vanillins from the oak, and they round out the dessert-like qualities, but the wood-character\u00a0blends in instead of taking over, leaving an earthiness behind that tastes delightfully like the seeds of fresh boysenberries. It’s a winner that’s currently available in limited supply exclusively at Council’s Kearny Mesa tasting room.<\/p>\n

From the Brewer:\u00a0<\/strong>“This beer was inspired through our Employee R&D program when our beertender,\u00a0Candice Dowell<\/strong>, aged her favorite fruit, boysenberries, along with toasted American oak in the base-beer for\u00a0B\u00e9atitude. We only made five\u00a0gallons of this R&D keg and it didn\u2019t last long. The flavor combination complemented the tart base-beer perfectly.\u00a0As soon as I tasted it, I knew I wanted to build off Candi\u2019s idea, and Imperial\u00a0B\u00e9atitude\u00a0Boysenberry was born.\u00a0The original beer was only about 4% alcohol-by-volume.\u00a0We decided this beer needed to be aged in Heaven Hill bourbon whiskey barrels, and 4% is rather low for barrel-aging, so we amped the malt bill up on this beer to 9.7% to stand up to the extended barrel-aging, and pitched our house Brettanomyces and lactobacillus ‘magic slurry’ culture. This, along with the intensely tart boysenberries, resulted in a beer that has much more perceived acidity than the\u00a0typical beers in our\u00a0B\u00e9atitude\u00a0series. The deep red color from the fruit and the intense sourness makes this beer come across as much more of a sour red or Flanders-style red ale than a saison.”\u2014Liz Chism, Head Brewer\/Owner,\u00a0Council Brewing Company<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Beer Writer:\u00a0Few are the fruits that haven’t made it into the sour fruit of\u00a0Council Brewing Company‘s labor care of its ever-changing line-up of tart saisons. One that was particularly successful gained its assertive flavor\u00a0character from boysenberries. It was such a fruitful addition to the beer-board that head brewer Liz Chism decided to not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,369,371,1],"tags":[1353,3487,376,1461,3489,442,3492,3491,1537,391,3486,3493,3488,3490,2483,926,1712,3494,46,1439,1716,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-16139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-news","8":"category-beer-styles","9":"category-brewing-ingredients","10":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","11":"tag-sdbeer","12":"tag-beatitude-boysenberry","13":"tag-beer","14":"tag-beer-of-the-week","15":"tag-bourbon-whiskey","16":"tag-brandon-hernandez","17":"tag-candi-dowell","18":"tag-candice-dowell","19":"tag-council-brewing","20":"tag-craftbeer","21":"tag-elizabeth-chism","22":"tag-employee-rd","23":"tag-heaven-hill","24":"tag-imperial-beatitude","25":"tag-indiebeer","26":"tag-kearny-mesa","27":"tag-liz-chism","28":"tag-research-and-development","29":"tag-saison","30":"tag-san-diego","31":"tag-tart-saison","32":"tag-west-coaster","33":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/botw_bbbbaits.jpg?fit=1000%2C1086&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-4cj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}