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First Place
Character Name – Kraggur Kveldcharn
Brew Name- a stein of Biiskbowr Beer
Second Place
Character Name – Squiff Thurdangee
Brew Name- A tankard of Biiskbowr ice beer
Third Place
Character Name – Sortny Quartre-Plea
Brew Name- a large chilled bottle of skorhewd (translated icecap)
Tied For Forth Place
Character Name – Sortny Quartre-Plea
Brew Name- a tall glass of drinskegowl (translates three beard ale)
Character Name – Semgrey
Brew Name- Miner's mud
Character Name – Balkinar Goldbiter
Brew Name- a schooner of Goldbiter Wheat beer
I'll be contacting you folks as soon as I can.
~Worrclan, Dwarf of the Realms-
Hey Worrclan,
Any chance in the interim we can get the winning entries posted, I know I'm interested in seeing what others came up with.
~Kraggur
Tap – a stein of Biiskbowr Beer
Look – The thick brew swirls with silver and copper glints. The symbol of Kwarlog is proudly branded into the side of the wooden stein.
Complex – The beer at first has a light taste, as if air was infused into it. Slow hints of minerals from the depths of the Arncharn Shel rise and are then flavored with hints of hops and mushrooms. The last tastes to linger are those of evergreen and redwoods.
Simple – Light, Mineral, Forests
Brewing Process –
Waters are drawn from the Biiskbowr, with the quality of the beer being determined largely by how close the waters are drawn from the cataracts between the Journelai and Arncharn Shel. Many an aspiring brewer has been drowned attempting to haul water from within the passage where the mountains draw closest to each other. Having attained the water, it is then quickly sealed in bottles, both to trap the mineral content, as well as retain as much air in the water as possible.
It is then taken to the halls within Kwarlog, where hops and mushrooms are collected and then mixed in with the water, a process that can take upwards of a decade for a perfect batch, time well-spent to dwarven minds. Once it has steeped and brewed for an adequate length of time, the beer is then sealed in redwood casks, where it is allowed to ferment and gather the tastes of the woods hewn from the western sides of the Arncharn Shel.
When the Brewmaster has determined that the appropriate qualities have been gathered into the beer, it is drawn into smaller casks lined with evergreen resin, and then sent out for sale within the different dwarven nations.
Any chance in the interim we can get the winning entries posted, I know I'm interested in seeing what others came up with.
~Kraggur
Tap – a stein of Biiskbowr Beer
Look – The thick brew swirls with silver and copper glints. The symbol of Kwarlog is proudly branded into the side of the wooden stein.
Complex – The beer at first has a light taste, as if air was infused into it. Slow hints of minerals from the depths of the Arncharn Shel rise and are then flavored with hints of hops and mushrooms. The last tastes to linger are those of evergreen and redwoods.
Simple – Light, Mineral, Forests
Brewing Process –
Waters are drawn from the Biiskbowr, with the quality of the beer being determined largely by how close the waters are drawn from the cataracts between the Journelai and Arncharn Shel. Many an aspiring brewer has been drowned attempting to haul water from within the passage where the mountains draw closest to each other. Having attained the water, it is then quickly sealed in bottles, both to trap the mineral content, as well as retain as much air in the water as possible.
It is then taken to the halls within Kwarlog, where hops and mushrooms are collected and then mixed in with the water, a process that can take upwards of a decade for a perfect batch, time well-spent to dwarven minds. Once it has steeped and brewed for an adequate length of time, the beer is then sealed in redwood casks, where it is allowed to ferment and gather the tastes of the woods hewn from the western sides of the Arncharn Shel.
When the Brewmaster has determined that the appropriate qualities have been gathered into the beer, it is drawn into smaller casks lined with evergreen resin, and then sent out for sale within the different dwarven nations.
Yup.
Kaith Partani Squiff Thurdangee.
My entry of a Biiskbowr Ice beer.
BIISKBOWR ICE BEER
Ice beer is produced by freezing the brew and filtering the ice crystals, increasing the alcohol content.
The TAP- needs to be short and to the point; A tankard of Biiskbowr ice beer.
The LOOK- needs to be kept around three sentences;
The earthenware tankard is filled to the brim with a dark and extremely viscous liquid, its creamy caramel head slightly overflowing and oozing down the sides.
The COMPLEX TASTE- this can be as long as you want it to be, but try to keep it under two paragraphs; Thick and rich with a complex, bitter flavor, you feel yourself warmed from the inside by its formidable alcohol content. The beer seems more of a meal than a beverage. As you lick the thick, creamy foam from your lips you discern overtones of chocolate and oatmeal amongst a myriad of subtle earthy flavors.
The SIMPLE TASTE- simply put is a list of singular descriptive words dark; thick; very strong; bitter
The special BREWING PROCESS- This can be as long as you want.
barley & oats – 2parts barley 1 part oats dried in a kiln then double roasted to create a chocolate malt.
Add hot Biiskbowr River water – 6 parts
Mash 5 times.
Add 1 part hops
Mix 5 times.
Add 1 part yeast.
Pour into keg.
Leave for 12 days.
Place keg in area where it will freeze Tradionally high on the Arncharn Shel. Leave for 2 days.
Skim ice from keg.
Your Biiskbowr Ice beer is now ready for drinking!
Sortny Quartre-Plea
The TAP- a large chilled bottle of skorhewd (translated icecap)
The LOOK- A crystal clear liquid with a water like consistancy.
The COMPLEX TASTE- A flavor strong enough to make your throat and eyes burn.
The SIMPLE TASTE- strong, burning.
The special BREWING PROCESS- Scour cauldrons, bowl and still clean and rinse thoroughly. Melt a fresh chunk of ice in the clean cauldron, bring to a slight boil, then remove from heat and rest. When cool, filter through a clean linen cloth into a bowl resulting in purified water, then pour purified water back into a new clean cauldron. Place sliced potatoes and yeast in cauldron and bring to a rapid boil, resulting in mash, strain mash with a clean linen cloth, resulting in rough skorhewd into the still and stir. Stir every half day for thirty days. Discard first and last fifty ounces from the still, as this causes people to become poisoned from the impurities of the liquid. Filter refined skorhewd through a clean linen cloth into a bottle, then cork, and put in an ice house to be chilled. Requires two cauldrons, three clean linen cloths, bowl, yeast, ice, sliced potatoes, large bottles, corks, and a still.
Sortny Quartre-Plea
Entry One:
The TAP- a tall glass of drinskegowl (translated three beard ale)
The LOOK- At the bottom of the tall glass is a dark copper colored liquid topped by two layers; the middle later being a shade lighter than the dark liquid and one being very blonde in color on top with a large foam head.
The COMPLEX TASTE- A mild nutty flavor followed by a sharp sweet flavor with a bitter coppery aftertaste.
The SIMPLE TASTE- mild, sweet, bitter
The special BREWING PROCESS- Make the mash by steeping sugar beets in warm water in a kettle. Add spelt and stir. Rest the mash for an anlas, during this process the wort is created. Strain the solids from the liquids. Pour the liquid wort into the fermentor and stir. Every half day stir fermentor over ten days and extract drinskegowl into a copper keg. Store copper keg in cool dry place for ten weeks before serving. During settling the blonde rises to the top, the middle shade becomes a bit dark and the dark is copper colored. Requires a kettle, fermentor, copper keg, beer tap, water, spelt, and sugar beets.
Semgrey
Miner's mud:
tap: a dented steel mug of miner's mud
look: Filled to the brim, this mug has obviously seen much use, scathed repeatedly by tools and loose stone.
simple taste: rich, thick, robust, sweet
complex taste: Whoa! A robust dark roasted coffee, with subtle hints of vanilla and apricott taming the bitterness of the beans. Spiced with a strong cinnamon scnapps to clear the grit and dust from the throat after a long day in the mines.
Brewing notes: using only water wells in the deepest dwarven mines, and soaking the beans in vanilla and apricott untill the bean takes on a lighter, almost orange glaze.
Balkinar Goldbiter
Trader and resident brewmeister
TAP: a schooner of Goldbiter Wheat beer
LOOK: Pale orange and smelling like a citrus orchard after a spring rain, the creamy head on this opaque beer gives off small golden motes of light.
COMPLEX TASTE: The also overpowering refreshness of orange and lemons is subtly complimented with a hearty taste of hops and wheat with a smooth and creamy finish. As you glance at the schooner, some tiny flecks of gold leaf dance in the effervesence before rising to the head, expelling small golden motes of light. Watching the ballet of the dancing flecks of gold leaf and the aroma of citrus is just as mesmerizing as this flavorful beer.
SIMPLE TASTE: smooth, citrus, creamy
BREWING: Brewed with orange and lemon peels from local orchards, coriander spice from Arthe Dale and choice wheat malt and hops, this pale orange wheat beer is surprisingly aromatic. Great care is taken to insure only the finest ingredients are used and with the labor intensive process (and expense) of making gold leaf, Goldbiter Wheat is only brewed in small batches. Even with its relative expense and scarity, it has a loyal clientle, always willing to pay the extra expensive for such a unique brew.
It was really interesting to see all this, a lot of really great creativity, and some actual brewing knowledge spread in there to! Each judge had a different favorite(which gave each entry bonus points), and how each one got their points came out so differently each time. Loved the entries.
The dwarf socials will be picking back up here soon. Long story short I got this new job last month was working a 100 hours a week, and every time I really thought I'd be able to make the social so I didn't cancel, and then bam... called into work. (Ironically working for someone named solomon to) Things have settled so I'll be able to do things like... actually sleep and do things like dwarf socials now.
~Worrclan, Dwarf of the Realms-
Kaith Partani Squiff Thurdangee.
My entry of a Biiskbowr Ice beer.
BIISKBOWR ICE BEER
Ice beer is produced by freezing the brew and filtering the ice crystals, increasing the alcohol content.
The TAP- needs to be short and to the point; A tankard of Biiskbowr ice beer.
The LOOK- needs to be kept around three sentences;
The earthenware tankard is filled to the brim with a dark and extremely viscous liquid, its creamy caramel head slightly overflowing and oozing down the sides.
The COMPLEX TASTE- this can be as long as you want it to be, but try to keep it under two paragraphs; Thick and rich with a complex, bitter flavor, you feel yourself warmed from the inside by its formidable alcohol content. The beer seems more of a meal than a beverage. As you lick the thick, creamy foam from your lips you discern overtones of chocolate and oatmeal amongst a myriad of subtle earthy flavors.
The SIMPLE TASTE- simply put is a list of singular descriptive words dark; thick; very strong; bitter
The special BREWING PROCESS- This can be as long as you want.
barley & oats – 2parts barley 1 part oats dried in a kiln then double roasted to create a chocolate malt.
Add hot Biiskbowr River water – 6 parts
Mash 5 times.
Add 1 part hops
Mix 5 times.
Add 1 part yeast.
Pour into keg.
Leave for 12 days.
Place keg in area where it will freeze Tradionally high on the Arncharn Shel. Leave for 2 days.
Skim ice from keg.
Your Biiskbowr Ice beer is now ready for drinking!
Sortny Quartre-Plea
The TAP- a large chilled bottle of skorhewd (translated icecap)
The LOOK- A crystal clear liquid with a water like consistancy.
The COMPLEX TASTE- A flavor strong enough to make your throat and eyes burn.
The SIMPLE TASTE- strong, burning.
The special BREWING PROCESS- Scour cauldrons, bowl and still clean and rinse thoroughly. Melt a fresh chunk of ice in the clean cauldron, bring to a slight boil, then remove from heat and rest. When cool, filter through a clean linen cloth into a bowl resulting in purified water, then pour purified water back into a new clean cauldron. Place sliced potatoes and yeast in cauldron and bring to a rapid boil, resulting in mash, strain mash with a clean linen cloth, resulting in rough skorhewd into the still and stir. Stir every half day for thirty days. Discard first and last fifty ounces from the still, as this causes people to become poisoned from the impurities of the liquid. Filter refined skorhewd through a clean linen cloth into a bottle, then cork, and put in an ice house to be chilled. Requires two cauldrons, three clean linen cloths, bowl, yeast, ice, sliced potatoes, large bottles, corks, and a still.
Sortny Quartre-Plea
Entry One:
The TAP- a tall glass of drinskegowl (translated three beard ale)
The LOOK- At the bottom of the tall glass is a dark copper colored liquid topped by two layers; the middle later being a shade lighter than the dark liquid and one being very blonde in color on top with a large foam head.
The COMPLEX TASTE- A mild nutty flavor followed by a sharp sweet flavor with a bitter coppery aftertaste.
The SIMPLE TASTE- mild, sweet, bitter
The special BREWING PROCESS- Make the mash by steeping sugar beets in warm water in a kettle. Add spelt and stir. Rest the mash for an anlas, during this process the wort is created. Strain the solids from the liquids. Pour the liquid wort into the fermentor and stir. Every half day stir fermentor over ten days and extract drinskegowl into a copper keg. Store copper keg in cool dry place for ten weeks before serving. During settling the blonde rises to the top, the middle shade becomes a bit dark and the dark is copper colored. Requires a kettle, fermentor, copper keg, beer tap, water, spelt, and sugar beets.
Semgrey
Miner's mud:
tap: a dented steel mug of miner's mud
look: Filled to the brim, this mug has obviously seen much use, scathed repeatedly by tools and loose stone.
simple taste: rich, thick, robust, sweet
complex taste: Whoa! A robust dark roasted coffee, with subtle hints of vanilla and apricott taming the bitterness of the beans. Spiced with a strong cinnamon scnapps to clear the grit and dust from the throat after a long day in the mines.
Brewing notes: using only water wells in the deepest dwarven mines, and soaking the beans in vanilla and apricott untill the bean takes on a lighter, almost orange glaze.
Balkinar Goldbiter
Trader and resident brewmeister
TAP: a schooner of Goldbiter Wheat beer
LOOK: Pale orange and smelling like a citrus orchard after a spring rain, the creamy head on this opaque beer gives off small golden motes of light.
COMPLEX TASTE: The also overpowering refreshness of orange and lemons is subtly complimented with a hearty taste of hops and wheat with a smooth and creamy finish. As you glance at the schooner, some tiny flecks of gold leaf dance in the effervesence before rising to the head, expelling small golden motes of light. Watching the ballet of the dancing flecks of gold leaf and the aroma of citrus is just as mesmerizing as this flavorful beer.
SIMPLE TASTE: smooth, citrus, creamy
BREWING: Brewed with orange and lemon peels from local orchards, coriander spice from Arthe Dale and choice wheat malt and hops, this pale orange wheat beer is surprisingly aromatic. Great care is taken to insure only the finest ingredients are used and with the labor intensive process (and expense) of making gold leaf, Goldbiter Wheat is only brewed in small batches. Even with its relative expense and scarity, it has a loyal clientle, always willing to pay the extra expensive for such a unique brew.
It was really interesting to see all this, a lot of really great creativity, and some actual brewing knowledge spread in there to! Each judge had a different favorite(which gave each entry bonus points), and how each one got their points came out so differently each time. Loved the entries.
The dwarf socials will be picking back up here soon. Long story short I got this new job last month was working a 100 hours a week, and every time I really thought I'd be able to make the social so I didn't cancel, and then bam... called into work. (Ironically working for someone named solomon to) Things have settled so I'll be able to do things like... actually sleep and do things like dwarf socials now.
~Worrclan, Dwarf of the Realms-
