Friday Tapping @ Jake's (Lincoln & Omaha) Beer Quest winning Dubbel

This Friday (9/21) at both Lincoln & Omaha Jake's locations will be a very special tapping party for the most recent Empyrean Beer Quest winning beer, a Belgian-style Dubbel,  brewed by Empyrean Brewing Company and winning homebrewer Aaron Carnes.

For those who have never heard of Beer Quest, it is an Empyrean Brewing Company quarterly event which starts with 21 homebrewers going head to head in a private competition judged by certified beer judges, with the top 10 beers moving on to the Beer Quest public event.  Brewers in this final round serve their beer and speak with the public about what processes and techniques they used to make their beer unique.  The publics job is to try each one of the beers and rank the brewers in order of favorite. The winner of the public tasting is crowned the winning brewer, and is awarded the opportunity to brew the winning recipe on Empyrean's big brewery system.

Brewery description: "The winning recipe from our Beer Quest Give Me Some Sugar competition.  Lincoln brewer Aaron Carnes won, this is his 4th Beer Quest win in the past five years!  The contest stipulated that the brewers had to use invert sugar in their beers along with Belgian yeast.  Invert sugar is what Belgian’s use to make candy sugar – it’s good stuff by itself but beer yeast LOVES it!  Putting it the beer before fermentation makes for a higher alcohol content and dryer finish to the beer.  Aaron's beer is big in flavor with juicy, caramel sweetness and a nose full of plums, dates and banana."

OG = 16.6
IBU = 24
Malts = Pilsner, Caramel Munich 60, Caramel 120, Aromatic
Adjuncts = invert sugar
Hops = Tettnang

LINCOLN ONLY!: Winning brewer Aaron Carnes will be hanging out, so come down and congratulate him over a pint of his delicious Dubbel!


5:00 pm Jake's Lincoln (14th & P St.)
5:00 pm Jake's Omaha (62nd & Maple)