Peppermint Porter, just in time for Christmas

This Wednesday at 4PM we’ll release the next beer in our Wednesday Porter Series….a Peppermint Porter.  Wow, I snuck a taste and am elated on how great it tastes.  No candy or artificial flavorings in this beer…I took organic peppermint tea (leaf cut) and sanitized it in a little water (making a strong tea) and added to the Porter.   Definitely a beer that Kris Kringle would like!  For those that want to learn some trivial facts about Peppermint…read on.

• Peppermint is actually a hybrid of the watermint and spearmint plants
• it is a perennial that is easily propagated with rhizomes, beer lovers should be familiar with rhizomes.
• the flowers are purple (funny because not many peppermint candies are colored purple…)
• one word: menth (plant contains: menthol, menthone, menthyl esters (acetate), menthofuran)
• also contains eucalptol and pinene (which is present in some hop varieties)
• medicinally was used for indigestion, vomiting, diarrhea, cancer treatment, memory loss, IBS and other abdominal pains
• medicinally is also used to treat halitosis…LOL!
• Peanut’s character Peppermint Patty’s real name is Patricia Reichardt

Uses for Peppermint besides putting in beer:

• Candy, cookies, ice cream and other confections
• famous candies: York Peppermint Patty, candy canes, starlight breath mints
• GUM! remember Beech-nut or Freedent?
• toothpaste flavoring
• candles, air fresheners and other smelly things
• there are 344 recipes posted on cooks.com for peppermint recipes
• schnapps!  Those Germans love their Rumplemintz
• what other uses do you know of?

Who doesn’t love Peppermint!  come down and get some York Sherpa Porter Patty, or something like that.

Prost!