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HB Cream Ale

My HB Altbier with a local Amber which the brewery used to call an “Alt style ale”. Now they just call it an Amber. The can says “Color: Amber, IBU: 27, ABV 5.4%, Awesomeness: 100” . Beersmith says mine is 11 SRM, 5% ABV, and 25 IBU. Mine tastes just as awesome. 😎 🍻

Back at the city house for awhile. HB Cream Ale.

J J Blonde.

Kettlehouse Mosaic IPA

J J Blonde Ale.

Water

Hop flavors tend to dissipate more quickly if beer is stored hot, at least according to a couple of articles I’ve come across, so sweeter might be likely. Taste is highly subjective; not everyone’s tastebuds taste things the same. One of the articles I read described a blind taste test of two...

Cold Smoke

One “rule of thumb” which I’ve come across, from various sources, is that beer stored at higher temps will age as much in a month as the same beer, refrigerated, will age in a year. At the temps the OP has mentioned he’s still going to have beer in a month, it just won’t taste the same as it...

Yesterday, actually, but it was the start of the weekend. Brewed an American Wheat Ale with my SIL. He’s done some brewing in the past but,with a demanding job and a side gig to keep him busy, he doesn’t have a lot of spare time. He enjoys having half a day, or so, to not have anything to think...

Kettlehouse IPA. “Double Haul” is what some fly fishers call a particularly long cast. Most of the brewery’s beer names are references to the kinds of outdoor activities common in NW Montana. Anyway, this is a British style IPA and I like it.

Brewing for 12 years. I don’t have one favorite style but I usually have something fizzy and yellow (Blonde Ale, Cream Ale, basic American Lager), something maltier (Altbier, Amber Ale, Scottish Ale), and something dark (Porter or Stout) in my rotation. I don’t brew a lot of hoppy beers but will...

You forgot to add “free”. 😎

Kettlehouse Mosaic IPA. Mosaic is one of my favorite hops. Part of a four beer variety pack; they were cheaper if you bought two. I bought two. 😎