Winter has well and truly arrived here in Australia with its cold winds and frequent rains, relief is thankfully on hand though with the release of Maltida Bay’s latest seasonal named “Longshot”. Its inception came after Matilda Bay head brewer Scott Vincent and gourmet coffee roaster Toby Smith started comparing stories about roasting malt and coffee beans over a beer.
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Tags: dark ale, Longshot, Matilda Bay, Seasonal
The Matilda Bay Brewing Company has recently teamed up with the gourmet coffee brand Toby’s Estate to create their latest limited edition beer for this winter called Longshot. Born over a beer between Matilda Bay head brewer Scott Vincent and gourmet coffee roaster Toby Smith after comparing stories about roasting malt and coffee beans, Scott and Toby sat down with a selection of Toby’s best coffee beans to determine which would be most suited to Matilda Bay’s new coffee infused beer.
Longshot is a spiced, full-flavoured dark ale with notes of coffee and malt balancing to finish with a subtle hop bitterness. Beer drinkers will also enjoy a number of different roasted malts in Longshot. These give the beer wonderful flavours of toffee and chocolate that perfectly complement the coffee notes. Longshot also uses an ale yeast fermented at moderate temperatures which gives it a lift in the ester profile – the fruity character that’s found in some ales. With a coarse grind of the coffee beans and a cold extraction, the coffee was then added to the fermentation process and was carefully managed to keep the beer balanced.
Longshot is a challenging beer for the discerning beer drinker and is an ideal beer for food matching particularly with chocolate dishes and beef. Try Longshot with chargrilled Scotch fillet on a rosti stack with thyme mushrooms and sautéed spinach or 70% Belgian cocoa chocolate (the bitterness balances wonderfully with the coffee notes in the beer) in a decadent dark chocolate and pear tart.
Longshot will be available only from Dan Murphy’s from 1 July 2010 and will be a limited release while stocks last and with only 5,000 cases of Longshot being produced, beer lovers will need to get in quick to sample Matilda Bay’s newest brew.
Tags: coffee, Longshot, Matilda Bay, Seasonal
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