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What did Obama do with all that honey from the bees he's keeping at the White House? Why, brew a honey ale for his Super Bowl party, of course! I'll post the link when I get to a real computer but he had his chef brew up a home brew honey ale. What a cool guy! And certainly the first president with home brew in the White House in a LOOONG time at least.


(And those early American brews were majorly adjunct-laden, so this might be the first good homebrew created and consumed in the White House.)

Got the link finally!
And fixed the link finally!

[url:1m99i2ta]http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/pages/community/news/show?title=obama-serves-homebrew-at-super-bowl-party[/url:1m99i2ta]

Adam

Did honey stop being an adjunct?

"TheBeerNut":qpdc5qnz wrote: Did honey stop being an adjunct?[/quote:qpdc5qnz]

No, but the article said that it was only brewed with 1 pound of honey and I figured that didn't qualify as "adjunct-laden" vs. the 50% pumpkin, 25% molasses beers of early colonial America.
(Adjunct-laden is just a relative term now.)

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Adam

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:3tt3q3i7 wrote: Did honey stop being an adjunct?[/quote:3tt3q3i7]

Hate to tell you TBN but it strictly speaking it isn't an adjunct, an adjunct is something that requires the enzymes from malt to convert its starch such as other non-malted grains/rice/corn etc, honey doesn't fall into that category.
You couldn't even make the case that it was an adulterant to cheaply raise the gravity as honey is a relatively expensive commodity and its added for flavour rather than gravity <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

I had always taken adjunct to mean any beer ingredient that isn't water, malt, hops or yeast. The Wikipedia article[/url:38z56fmq] starts with your definition, but then goes on to include fruit, spices and other flavourings.

Copper adjuncts generally defined as a free source of simple sugar