Recent content by bobdozer

I received the gingerbread ale tonight. All 3 bottles sage and sound. The only 2 left for me are the gruit, that was supposed to arrive tonight. Ups has been holding on to it 15 miles away for 2 days now. And the crabapple lambicky ale. Ready for a day off Wednesday to try a couple that I...

Thanks for the positive feedback on both beers. The reviews I've gotten on the Christmas ale (my wife begged me to label it Christmas bliss) have been real hjt or miss. I actually brewed it may 2012. So it seems that age has been good to it. Anyone heard from obscurebrewing? Just wondering if...

Here is my recipe for the spiced dunkel weizenbock. Dunkel Buck Recipe specifics: Style: Weizenbock Batch size: 5.0 gal Boil volume: 7.0 gal OG: 1.067 FG: 1.015 Bitterness (IBU): 24.6 Color (SRM): 15.8 ABV: 6.88% Efficiency: 72% Grain/Sugars: 5.00 lb Wheat (US), 38.5% 4.00 lb...

Also, I've never really ventured outside of mostly american styles. Maybe Irish style for all the stout I like to drink. I've never had a Belgian before and I am drinking one of the caramel quads right now. Now obviously it is spiced and recipes are different everywhere but I guess the question...

Just received the abbey weizen and the saffron trippel. All the trippels are intact. One of the weizens leaked just a couple drops inside the cryovac. Just enough to get the aroma of homebrew inside. More of an air freshener than an issue.

Just received caramel quad and spiced stout tonight. All intact and put in the chest freezer for safe keeping.

Probably ups handling. I hope all mine make it to everyone safely.

Just received the honey ginger IPA. One bottle leaked a little, less than an ounce. The cap was leaking CO2 when I got the box open. I missed the ups guy by about 5 seconds and he probably dropped the box on my porch. Just recapped and threw in the fridge. Can't wait to try it

Just shipped out everyone's presents. The people in line behind me seemed angry about me shipping 13 packages any once. Oops. Some are slated to arrive as early as Monday. Most were Wednesday or Thursday. I'll send everyone a pm with your tracking number. Just FYI for those who haven't...

Just got home and received the fruitcake old ale today already. That was some quick shipping! Ill finish packaging tomorrow evening and ship out Saturday or Monday morning.

Thought I'd give the dunkel one more taste before shipping time. Its been bottled about 8-9 weeks now. All the green flavor and overly spiced flavors are gone. The spices and ginger are a little subtle but definitely there. I can tell that this is a Christmas spiced beer. Appearance is still a...

Bottled the dunkel weizenbock today. Everything went smooth. I'll give them a month to sit and take another taste. The ginger in the secondary was pretty strong. Actually, the spices overtook the entire flavor of the beer. It didn't seem this pronounced when transferring from primary to...

Had a black tire at a bar in houston. Wasn't terrible. Wasn't anything special either. Was at an outback on a business trip in west Virginia a couple weeks ago. Waitress ran down the tap list that was all BMC and one great lakes beer. Being from the cleveland area and now living in houston, i...

I usually bottle a batch. Rack to bottling bucket towards the end of mashing and bottle during the boil. Two tasks and only one cleanup. Plus I can't stand to see buckets just sitting there empty.

Racked the weizenbock to secondary last night and added 2oz chopped candied ginger. Pleased to see a small krausen forming this morning. Also took my first taste. The spices are surprisingly subtle and for warm, flat 6.5% beer, it tasted pretty good. I was a little nervous about the flavor...