More on Jiahu....
Let's travel back in time again (Midas Touch was DFH first foray and Theobroma their most recent), this time 9000 years! Preserved pottery jars found in the Neolithic villiage of Jiahu, in Henan province,Northern China, has revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit was being produced that long ago - right around the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East!
Fast forward to 2005.... Molecular Archeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology calls on Dogfish Head to re-create their second ancient beverage and Chateau Jiahu is born.
In keeping with historic evidence, Dogfish brewers used pre-gelatinized rice flakes, Wildflower honey, Muscat grapes, barley malt, hawthorn fruit, and Chrysanthemum flowers. The rice and barley malt were added together to make the mash for starch conversion an Chrysanthemum flowers were then added. The entire mixture was boiled for 45 minutes, then cooled. The resulting sweet liquid was pitched with a fresh culture of Sake yeast and allowed to ferment a month before the transfer into a chilled secondary tank
The ABV is 10.0 and the IBU rating is 10
Style - Herbed or Spice Beer
Glass to use- Pint Glass, Snifter, Oversized Wine Glass
Delivery 750ml Bottle
Can be cellared for long periods, under the proper conditions.
The Pour - Pours a nice orange color with a white head and some lacing.
Aroma - Spices, oranges, honey and some malts. Unique.
Taste - Sweet, spicy and fruity. The honey is there almost like a mead.
Mouth Feel - Low carbonation. Like drinking white wine. Very smooth.
Drinkable - Very drinkable, will make a good choice to go with desert like a fruit wine.
This beer pairs well with cheese and deserts.
This beer gets a Duper rating of B+.
BeerAdvocate Rating =B+
Ratebeer Rating = 87
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