What’s an adjunct, and what does it have to do with Robert De Niro?

I got an email this week asking me “what is an adjunct?”. To those of us who have been around beer for awhile, this is a pretty easy question to answer, but it DID get me thinking about terminology, and explanations of brewery ops, and existentialism, and Robert De Niro.

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To answer this one — an adjunct is anything you add to a beer beyond the basic beer elements of malt, hops, yeast, and water. It’s the chocolate, the vanilla, the raspberries, the marshmallow, the honey, the pecans, and the coconuts, and whatever else!

What does this all have to do with Robert De Niro?

Nothing. I’m just a fan of his work and sometimes I think about him. Is that such a crime?

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