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WHATCOM — Experimentation is a big part of brewing beer, and FrinGe Brewing and Atwood Ales did some experimenting in creating their newest collaboration. Called “The Precious,” FrinGe and Atwood brewed the beer, which they refer to as a “Super Vienna Smash,” using Skagit Valley Malting Super Vienna malt and Atwood Ales’ own estate-grown Tettnang hops. Atwood Ales brewer Josh Smith
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and FrinGe brewer Scott White had been kicking around some collaboration ideas for a while, having previously collaborated on a golden ale with the North Fork Brewery. Smith had gone down to Skagit Valley Malting to purchase some product as the company closed out some of its inventory from the previous year. “One of the things that was there that caught my eye was this malt called Super Vienna,” Smith said. “Adam, one of the managers, explained to me that it was like a Vienna malt. Toasty, bready element to it, but it was darker. It tasted like a Vienna but it had a darker color to it, so I thought that sounded interesting.” Smith brought some to the farm brewery near Blaine, scooped a handful out of the bag and brought it over to FrinGe in Fern-
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Atwood Ales, FrinGe Brewing collaborate and have released ‘The Precious’
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“The Precious” beer is a collaboration of FrinGe Brewing of Ferndale and Atwood Ales of Blaine. (Courtesy photo)
dale. He had White taste the malt, and they both liked it. They decided to do a SMaSH beer using Atwood’s Tettnang hops from the brewery property. “SMaSH” refers to a “single-hop and single-malt” beer. “It’s eerily similar to like a Vienna lager,” White said. “It’s very malt-forward. Slight hop-flavored. Clean, bright, notes of toasty biscuit. Malty. Those would be words I would use to describe it. A slight hop bitterness.” White said they used about 4.5 pounds of hops, but none were introduced into the boil. Introducing hops into the boiling process is part of what brings a bitter taste into beers. They kept the hops out of the boil just to experiment and play around. The beer was brewed and bottled at FrinGe Brewing. “We wanted the hops to be subtle and the focus to be on the malt,” White said. The beer name, inspired by “Lord of the Rings” lore, came to them in a roundabout way. Smith and White were trying to think of a German name because of the Vienna malt used in the brewing process. Smith said “Smeagol” sounded German. “I said, ‘I don’t think we can use Smeagol because of copyright infringement, but we can probably use ‘Precious,’” White said, referring to the character’s name for the titular ring. White said the name actually fits the beer well. “We just think that the beer itself, it’s very precious. It’s very light and it’s very easy to drink. It’s only 5.2 percent ABV, so you can have a couple of them,” White said. Atwood Ales released “The Precious” in bottles at the Bellingham Farmers Market on Saturday, and the beer is available on tap at FrinGe Brewing in Ferndale. It will be on tap at Drayton Harbor Oyster Company in Blaine and at Packers Kitchen + Bar at Semiahmoo Resort this week. Smith will be delivering some bottles to The Green Barn in Lynden this week as well.
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