Tonight I am back home, Yeah!! Decided to give my Heather Ale a quality check before taking it Saturday to the Peoria International Beerfest http://www.peoriajaycees.org/events/international-beer-fest/ . It is a festival that is organized by the Peoria Jaycees and features beer from home brewers as well as professional brewers. In years past MUGZ along with other homebrew clubs from Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa have brought imaginative beers to this event to show what can be done with beer. So this year I went way out there and made a Heather Ale. It is a Scottish 70 with 4 ounces of heather tips added to it. Thankfully the beer is nice and clean and has an interesting taste from the heather, best I can describe it is floral, piney, spicy and a bit antiseptic. It makes my mouth tingle and I like that! So the beer passes muster for the weekend.
More about the fest it is Saturday April 30th from 1-9 PM but I'm sure we will be out of beer before 6 PM. It is a fund raiser for the Peoria Jaycees, so the profits go to a good place. Tickets are on sale now $12 in advance and $15 at the door. So if you are not doing anything better and are in the mood for a road trip drive on down to Peoria for an afternoon of beer tasting. Needless to say if you do drive down make sure to have someone sober enough to drive afterward, because the drive from Peoria is a tad bit long.
Hope to see you there!
QC Beerguy
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