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Guest Post: Three Headed Dog
Editor’s Note: This is another of what we hope are many contributions from our readers. These guest posts come from our friends, followers, and fellow beer geeks who have something they want to share. If you’ve attended a great event, tasted a rare beer, want to give your favorite brewery some love, or share anything else beer related feel free to send us an email at thebeercircle@gmail.com and let us know! This post specifically is from Margaret Weaver, otherwise known as Kenton’s better half, whose interest in beer was born out of Kenton’s forays into homebrewing.
After years of avoiding this whole craft beer craze, Kenton finally won me over. After seeing his attempts to brew some beer himself, I became interested in the process of how beer is made. Tours of the Yuengling plant and of Troegs further piqued my curiosity and thus, Three Headed Dog Stout was born. Yes, that is an ode to Harry Potter, I am a big fan and thought the name suited.
This past Valentine’s Day, Tröegs released a chocolate stout in their scratch series that turned out to be very popular, especially because of the location in Hershey, PA. Kenton and I were fans and decided that because it may not reappear at Tröegs, we should try to make a clone. Instead of Hershey’s chocolate, we used chocolate made by the Wilbur Chocolate Company, a Lititz, PA based company, only sold in Lancaster County. Their signature candy is a Wilbur Bud which is a larger and tastier version of a Hershey Kiss. Their chocolate is richer and better tasting than most gourmet chocolates and it makes any dessert even more delicious. It turns out that it makes a chocolate stout pretty tasty as well.
We used cocoa powder and milk chocolate chips in the recipe. The chips and cocoa powder went in during the boil. We used a chocolate extract that went in right before bottling. Next time, I think I will want to use dark chocolate chips because dark chocolate tends to be more flavorful and would really enhance the richness of the beer. All in all, it came out very well. At first, we were afraid that it wouldn’t be as strong but after sitting for two weeks in the bottles it worked itself out.
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