Wedding Beer

[alesu]

I'm making a wedding beer that will have several ethnic components to it, Irish, English, Scottish, German and Dominican. I have everything covered except Irish. Other than Irish ale yeast does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks.

[beertje46]

I'm making a wedding beer that will have several ethnic components to it, Irish, English, Scottish, German and Dominican. I have everything covered except Irish. Other than Irish ale yeast does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks.

See Names for Wedding Beers for ideas.

[alesu]

We have a name picked out. I'm looking for ingredients.

[beertje46]

I understand. The thread listed in the link lists two dozen styles of beer suggestions.

[northstarbrew]

We made this for my wife's cousins wedding:

Nuptu-Ale.

The bride placed all of the bottles at a receiving table during thereception. She placed a small tag with a piece of string around the neck of the bottle. The tag had your name and your table/seat number on it. Creative! We also placed a picture of the bride/groom in the center of the label.

Cheers,
Shawn

[GlacierBrewing]

Get ahold of some heather and brew with it! Heather Ale is wonderfully herby!
http://www.heatherale.co.uk/

Prost!
Dave

[einhorn]

You could either put some green dye in the beer or cook your corned beef in the boil.

[alesu]

Does anyone know if Irish malt is available in the States?

[mic_mac]

I can't be the only one to think of this . . . IRISH MOSS!!??

oddly enough, (as our side is Irish-origin) I mentioned it on the bottle of my brother's wedding beer I mentioned on the other wedding beer thread.
cheers
Mike McGuigan,
nr Liverpool (prob UK's Irish-est city)
http://www.betwixtbeer.co.uk/

[mic_mac]

re Irish Moss - at least in the UK AFAIK, Irish Moss is actually produced using seaweed harvested on the West Coast of Ireland.

I was at a training day at a UK finings manufacturer & was told a tale of them trying to get info from the seaweed 'farmers' - they would call early to speak to them only to be told by the wife that they were still out collecting. On ringing back a wee while later they would be told they were in the pub!
cheers
MikeMcG

[alesu]

Hi,
I've thought of Irish Moss but I'm not sure of the source of the irish moss that we use. Thanks for the reply.
www.marshallwharf.com/

[mic_mac]

you could ask your supplier where they source the unrefined seaweed from?

but if that fails, as you say, Irish yeast sounds like a good idea, or you could do an in-keg "corpse-reviver" & add a bottle of whiskey?

I'm told in Dublin a "corpse-reviver" (hair of the dog) is a shot of port in your pint of Guinness! Maybe not quite the message you'd want to send out at a wedding though!

Sláinte
Mike McGuigan
Betwixt Beer Co, nr Liverpool, UK
http://www.betwixtbeer.co.uk/

[alesu]

Mike,
I like the idea of a corpse reviver with some Irish Whiskey added to the keg before filling. I can think of several members of my family that would actually love the idea of it. I don't think I mentioned that my daughter is getting married and I am brewing the wedding beer.
Thanks for the input.

[mic_mac]

so you think you may have sorted breakfast out now, what about the wedding meal

Good luck with it all (for some reason, I'd assumed you were groom/best man)
cheers,
Mike.