A local friend is as addicted to home brewing as some of us are to growing figs. You meld the two addictions and this is what you get.

The beer that is pictured was actually a fig with dates flavored beer and had an alcohol content upwards of 9 or 10%. I wish I had the connoisseur's vocabulary to describe the beer using words like nose and bouquet, but I don't, so I'll just say it was damn good.

Alla tua salute!

Well I guess its almost noon...

Frank, does he ship?

I have been waiting for someone to go there. Enjoy, I'm sure it is fabulous.

Mike, it is totally a hobby for him but I'll ask.
Apparently beers are like figs as far as varieties go. For example, he also gave me a Chocolate Espresso Stout, Bourbon Barrel Porter and Belgian Wheat to try. The fig beer is called Belgian Double with figs and dates. There are virtually thousands of combinations possible, I suppose. The alcohol content is always going to be quite high especially if left to age.

 


I didn't want to leave the tea-totalers out of this thread, so here's some Alma tea for you. A nice bonus is that my wife likes the tea very much, so she'll leave the beer alone.
:)

Frank,

My brother is addicted to brewing and I'm addicted to figs go figure! He is graduating from A&M next week and thanks to you I have a beautiful alma to give to him (both products of the school). Once he moves back to Indiana and I get figs going this is next on our list. We may need a few pointers if that's OK. Thanks for sharing figs and photos!

Were the dates dried and the figs non-dried?  I assume most of the fermentable sugars were from barley and with the proportion of figs/dates added mainly to complement the barley/hops flavor, correct?

Steve, I'm sure you are right. That's pretty much what Gary (my fig friend) said he did.

Scott, how serendipitous is that!

Frank,

Any chance he gave you the recipe? 

I was just wondering about such today.
What would an all fig fermented drink be?
A Mead? or??

Wills, I can certainly ask him for it. I'm sure he told me already, but that's like me explaining the difference between Mount Etna vs Bordeaux figs to him.

Sounds great.  Mentioned this to my Hubby who also is a home brewer. His comment was that the German in him was cringing. Now we wait for the right batch and my Anatolian heritage to strike.

Reinheitsgebot doesn't apply to beer outside of Germany :) sounds wonderful. i might brew a 1 gal batch to see how a fig beer will come out.