Utepils uses a tool designed specifically for beer poking called the 1571☏ Beer Caramelizer () made by a company in Menomonie, Wis. "People don't know about it until you do it, and then they love it," said Delta Brown, marketing director at Utepils. "It seems like it's become a lot more popular in the last few years," said Jordan Weller, programming and entertainment director at Utepils Brewing in Minneapolis, which does beer poking in its outdoor beer garden. It's also has been embraced by many of the newer craft breweries. In recent years, Schell's has been spreading the beer poking concept, bringing a portable fire pit to Bockfest pre-parties and demonstrations held at local taverns. ![]() You've got to have one poked," said Kyle Marti, marketing vice president at Schell's. "It's kind of like a rite of passage when you come here. ( This year's Bockfest is at Schell's on March 4.) The festival attracts thousands of participants. Since 1986, it's been hosting a daylong outdoor Bockfest in early March, which features fire pits for heating pokers to caramelize seasonal bock-style German dark lagers. The beer poking tradition has been practiced in Minnesota for more than 30 years by the Schell's Brewery in New Ulm. George Washington was also said to be a fan. Flips are enjoyed by characters in novels by Dickens and Melville. ![]() It credits blacksmiths who always had hot pokers handy to warm up their drinks.Ī similar practice was used by imbibers from the late 1600s who heated metal tools called loggerheads, mulling irons or toddy rods and used them to froth and caramelize a mixture of rum, ale and sugar in a toasty cocktail called the flip. Weihenstephan, a Bavarian brewery that has been making beer for close to 1,000 years, says the practice i s called bierstacheln in Germany, or beer spiking. ![]() In the winter, when beer might be too cold to comfortably drink, colonial Americans were said to use hot pokers to warm their ale a bit. A pair of beers, Utepils’ Springbok, left, and the Minnator, being hot-poked at Utepils Brewing in Minneapolis.īeer historians say the practice has been around for more than 400 years.
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