Brewer's Advent Day 5: Schwarze Tinte

Schwarze Tinte (translated: Black Ink) is a stout. Martin Seidl, the brewer, brewed this beer for the first time in 1997. Even then from barley grown in his own fields. He sows, harvests and, above all, roasts the barley himself - in a huge smoker. Martin's brewery is called Dietrachtinger Brauerei and is really, really small – it’s a real microbrewery and a farmhouse brewery at the same time - because of the barley field. The name, by the way, came to Martin's mind when he was cleaning the pipes after brewing and thought, "That looks like black ink!" At one point, Martin brewed his "ink" in the U.S., in the brewhouse of Ever Grain Brewing Co. Of course, he brought the grain with him from his Austrian homeland. Cheers!