On Friday, June 11th 2021 03:27:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) /u/innsource made a post requesting a recipe. A recipe that requires a very particular set of ingredients. Ingredients that make beer a nightmare for people like you (and me).
I don't really like nightmares, and I sort of like making crazy recipes (even if they may not work, but I try!), so I really wanted to give this a go. What I have below is not me blowing smoke up your ass. It's a legit attempt at something that covers all of the basis for what a "good" New England Double Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Tropical Salted Caramel Double Dry Hopped Extra Oat Cream Vanilla Milkshake Chocolate Raspberry Icecream Sour White Stout Infused with Mint, Hibiscus and Truffle oil beer should be.
So let's break this down first into some keywords and flavor profiles commonly associated with them and see if we can't do some combining:
- New England - A less defined hop bitterness but more defined aroma and flavor. Smoother mouthfeel. Will likely be more opaque
- Double - Higher ABV
- BBA - Bourbon Barrel aged
- Imperial - Higher ABV
- Tropical - (hops? fruit?)
- Salted Caramel - what it is
- DDH - Arguable, I prefer the "2 dry hop additions" definition
- Extra - ?
- Oat - Oats (maybe oat cream = oat milk?)
- Cream - Lactose
- Vanilla - Vanilla
- Milkshake - Usually just lactose
- Chocolate - Chocolate (particular malts like pale chocolate, carafa II, cacao etc.)
- Raspberry - The fruit
- Sour - Lower pH, higher TA, lactic acid
- Icecream - ehhhhh, we'll go lactose-y
- White Stout - sweeter coffee blonde with chocolate and vanilla
- Mint, Hibiscus, Truffle oil
So now that we have, you know, some flavors we're going for let's look at malts.
So I think between the Double, BBA, Imperial, and maybe extra qualifiers we're going to want to focus on this being a big boy. Let's do 12% coming out of the FV. We'll also target 5.5 gallons.
I start a lot of sentences with "So" apparently.
Now the tricky part is that we want this to be sort of a NE style sour White Stout...basically. This is actually kinda ok and workable. I think based on those descriptors I almost want to say that we should use Pilsner malt. It just feels right, I have a gut feeling.
Also I'll say this for the recipe, I'll add %'s but my efficiency goes to pit when I brew these higher OG beers so I'm targeting closer to a 60% efficiency with this.
So let's rock out 17 pounds of that to start. We also need to make sure th
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CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. is planning to build a renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, using locally grown vegetable oils to meet growing customer demand for cleaner burning fuel products.
Calgary-based Imperial — a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and Canada's largest petroleum refiner — said Wednesday its proposed project would be the largest facility of its kind in Canada, capable of producing more than 1 billion litres per year of biofuel annually.
That works out to the equivalent of about 3 million tonnes per year of emissions reductions from the Canadian transportation sector when compared with traditional petroleum-based diesel, said Jon Wetmore, Imperial's vice-president of downstream.
“For the most part I think all of our customer base is really interested and keen on this," Wetmore said. "The rail companies, CN Rail and CP Rail, have probably been the most vocal looking for a renewable fuel option for their locomotives.”
Renewable diesel fuel — sometimes called green diesel — is a biofuel that can be produced from a range of sustainable feedstocks including wood, crops and vegetable oils, and even sawdust.
Because it is chemically the same as petroleum diesel, renewable diesel can be used in regular diesel engines. That makes it appealing for companies racing to get in line with Canada's new Clean Fuel Standard, which takes effect next year. The legislation will require liquid fuel suppliers to decrease the carbon intensity of their products by 13 per cent by 2030.
“We’re not alone in this. Everybody’s looking at renewable diesel as being an advantaged fuel under the Canadian clean fuels regulation coming forward, and we certainly see it the same way,” Wetmore said.
Imperial's proposed project will use "blue" hydrogen (a term used to describe hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture and storage) to process locally grown crops such as canola and soybeans into the renewable diesel.
The company didn't disclose a price tag for the proposed project, saying it intends to make a final investment decision next year. Production could start in 2024.
Wetmore said moving ahead with the complex will depend on market conditions as well as securing necessary government approvals and support. He said Imperial is in partnership discussions with the governments of Alberta as well as with B.C., which has its own provincial renewable and low carbon fuel requirements.
While most of North America's major renewable diesel
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Huge dividend bump from IMO today from 22 cents to 27. They don't often bump the dividend by that much...hopefully that's a sign of things to come from the other Canadian majors and some of the mids as well. The oil patch is shitting cash at $60 a barrel and the market doesn't care. Nuttall is blowing his load all over downtown Calgary. If you can peel yourselves away from trading shrooms, gambling stocks, crypto miners, and garbage pail kids NFT's then post your best oil patch DD here.
Disclosure: I own IMO, CNQ, SU, TOU, TVE, ATH
