"Midnight Wheat" in New Belgium's "Snow Day"

Northern Brewer General
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I picked up a sixer of New Belgium’s “Snow Day” seasonal beer this weekend, and had a bottle on Saturday. Its a very nice, hoppy, winter ale. I did some looking online, and this uses “Midnight Wheat”, which supposedly is a new wheat malt.

I did some more searching, and this is supposedly a new new year-round malt offered by Briess. Its a 550L wheat malt, and a non-bitter alternative to Black Malt, or so says Briess.

When will we see this offered by NB???

Here is a link to the info sheet:

http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Assets ... atMalt.pdf
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Midnight wheat was on Midwest Supplies’ site last year. They need to bring Black Prinz back. I brewed a black IPA with that stuff and it was phenomenal. Of course, it’s not available now.

I thought the Snow Day was okay. Not my favorite beer, but pleasant to drink. I always thought 2 Below was basically a more robust Fat Tire. My dad tells me that was what Fat Tire tasted like 15 years ago when he first had it.

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I agree about the 2 Below, and I like it.

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[quote=“Beersk”]Midnight wheat was on Midwest Supplies’ site last year. They need to bring Black Prinz back. I brewed a black IPA with that stuff and it was phenomenal. Of course, it’s not available now.

I thought the Snow Day was okay. Not my favorite beer, but pleasant to drink. I always thought 2 Below was basically a more robust Fat Tire. My dad tells me that was what Fat Tire tasted like 15 years ago when he first had it.[/quote]
Black Prinz was a seasonal release last year, but it looks like it’s gone year round.

http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Produc ... lMalts.htm

Seasonal malt releases seem a bit silly to me.

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[quote=“BrewingRover”][quote=“Beersk”]Midnight wheat was on Midwest Supplies’ site last year. They need to bring Black Prinz back. I brewed a black IPA with that stuff and it was phenomenal. Of course, it’s not available now.

I thought the Snow Day was okay. Not my favorite beer, but pleasant to drink. I always thought 2 Below was basically a more robust Fat Tire. My dad tells me that was what Fat Tire tasted like 15 years ago when he first had it.[/quote]
Black Prinz was a seasonal release last year, but it looks like it’s gone year round.

http://www.brewingwithbriess.com/Produc ... lMalts.htm

Seasonal malt releases seem a bit silly to me.[/quote]
Except that our host nor Midwest is carrying it, right now anyway. Damn it! That was good stuff! It’d be mega cool if it was year round, and I agree, seasonal malt releases? Silliness.