{"id":16073,"date":"2017-05-30T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=16073\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:29:27","slug":"the-smoking-jacket-beer-celebrates-2-brothers-brewerys-1000th-brew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/the-smoking-jacket-beer-celebrates-2-brothers-brewerys-1000th-brew\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Smoking Jacket\u201d Beer Celebrates 2 Brothers Brewery\u2019s 1000th Brew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian craft brewer 2 Brothers has celebrated its 1000<sup>th<\/sup> brew by producing a cigar infused stout beer aptly named \u201cThe Smoking Jacket\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to mark the occasion of our 1000th brew at 2 Brothers with something celebratory,\u201d said brewer Andrew Ong. \u201cA nice Cuban and balloon of cognac felt right, but we could see an opportunity to execute this in a beery context and share it with others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The beer reflects the activities and experiences usually enjoyed when donning a smoking jacket, namely lighting a cigar and sipping on cognac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brew had to be smooth, suitably warming for a winter session, and approachable,\u201d said Ong. \u201cWe considered a raft of different beer styles, but settled on a smooth and dark sweet stout as the starting point. Once we\u2019d settled on the beer style, Alan Tubb, our resident cigar connoisseur suggested a maduro cigar to match the full-bodied malt and roast, cocoa, and coffee notes in this beer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not being fans of smoked or \u201cRauch\u201d beer, they steered away from using smoke or smoked malt, and avoided smokey notes in favour of hints of tobacco. The brewers steeped cigars in a barrel with some oak aged beer to produce a concentrated tobacco beer. A tea blend was selected that they felt would further support the delicate tobacco notes. This tea was aged in Cognac barrels. The remainder of the beer was further aged on medium-toasted French oak barrels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were then able to taste the components individually and blend them together. Once blended, the contributions of tobacco, tea, oak and cognac are very subtle, said Ong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrew informs me that with just two barrels in existence, <em>The Smoking Jacket<\/em> will only be found on tap at their brewery. If there ever was an excuse to fly to Melbourne this is it.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Left to Right: Chris Fletcher, Ben Lee, Andrew Ong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian craft brewer 2 Brothers has celebrated its 1000th brew by producing a cigar infused stout beer aptly named \u201cThe Smoking Jacket\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,2796,2810,438],"tags":[2648,2297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}