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Clown Shoes Chocolate Sombrero. All of the reviews said this beer was damn near flat, so I got a little carried away with the pour. Much better than I expected, very good. Slightly spicy and a ton of chocolate.

Really enjoying a Nugget Nectar sent to me by corkpuller, cheers!

I'm diggin it

Back home in St. Louis mo on leave . Picked up a local mico/craft brew of o'fallon ,mo five day IPA (not my cup of tea) but beer is beer be it bud light or my not so good hb try's . No beer needs to be sent down the drain.

Budweiser

Undecided on this brew right now

for tonight, i'm right about 3/4 of a gallon of ed's apfelwein. 1st batch of the year! tomorrow could be a long day. i should stop now, take a few ibuprofen and go to bed.

Cigar City Jai-Alai. Just enough time tonight for one more beer, I choose this one. Damn good.

Just good ol standby Labatt Blue tonight.

nukebrewer said:

This is a really great beer courtesy of allenH. The hop character is great and very smooth. Thanks, Allen.

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I really like their Humidor series IPA, what did you think about the cedar? Every time I have that one, I imagine walking up to the tap and pouring a Jai-Alai into a cigar box and drinking it. It really smoothes it out.

nukebrewer said:

Another from my new friend allenH. This smells so amazing. Roasty toasty goodness with caramel, coffee and toffee. Tastes just as good if not better.

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I picked up a sixer of those the other day. South Florida sucks for craft beer. But thank god CCB is close to us so we have an endless supply of jai Alai and maduro. Jai Alai is my favorite IPA right now. There's nothing like that little guava taste in there

Homebrew IPA. The lighting is awful. It's not quite as dark as it looks.

Had a Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye and Dogfish Head Burton Baton tonight.

Jealous of the people with access to Cigar City brews. Enjoyed quite a few of their beers while in South Florida a couple of years ago.

First BJCP class tonight. Off flavor tasting. I haven't drank so much Bud Light since college. (Not) surprisingly, some "off" flavors make it a better beer. Treated myself to a few great IPAs afterwards.

BL+diacetyl= Mmmmm

Hacker-Pschorr Weisse

bottlebomber said:

BL+diacetyl= Mmmmm

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Oh man.... that one tasted like a bag of microwave popcorn. The clove BL was interesting too.

Doin' it like George Thorogood tonight, apparently....

Had a Guiness Draught on nitro earlier. Having a HB'ed cascade pale ale now, then off to bed...

At the moment I am drinking Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I want the yeast from the bottles to make a clone . I have bottled a Bell's Oberon clone and a dunkle rye. Both turned out very good.

Coog_Brew said:

Had a Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye and Dogfish Head Burton Baton tonight.

Jealous of the people with access to Cigar City brews. Enjoyed quite a few of their beers while in South Florida a couple of years ago.

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I really like Dogfish Raison D'Etre. It's a bit too sweet to drink more than one or two, but it is quite good.

Sadly I am down to my last of Stauff's home brew, a vanilla porter. It's super delicious though and I can't wait to trade HB with him again.

allenH said:

I really like their Humidor series IPA, what did you think about the cedar? Every time I have that one, I imagine walking up to the tap and pouring a Jai-Alai into a cigar box and drinking it. It really smoothes it out.

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I also thought the cedar did a lot to smooth things out, but I think maybe they overdid it just a touch on the cedar. I didn't think it needed to be that strong, but overall I thought it was very good.

Right now I am having the other Jai Alai you sent me. Sad to see it go, but I'll be in Orlando this summer so I will see if I can make my over to Tampa to check out the brewery.

HB pale and a little beef and barley soup

I still wish I could post a picture without having to type something here

nukebrewer said:

I still wish I could post a picture without having to type something here

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Lol, that pic says it all. Once I get my computer fixed im going have to try makin my beer look that good through a lens

HB Pale with a shot of some HB Belgian ale

Got two 22 oz of Hardywood Sidamo Coffe Stout


Despensed from my mini-mini-keg



OMG was it good.. Best stout I have had in a while.

CDGoin said:

Got two 22 oz of Hardywood Sidamo Coffe Stout

Despensed from my mini-mini-keg

OMG was it good.. Best stout I have had in a while.

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Dude that thing is friggin cool! Where'd you get it?

nukebrewer said:

I still wish I could post a picture without having to type something here

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At least from my iPhone, I can post by hitting 'return' after uploading the pic, seems like the app just needs a blank line to let you post.

bottlebomber said:

Dude that thing is friggin cool! Where'd you get it?

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The Growler is the 2L growler from Deep Wood Brew Products..

The pump I made

CDGoin said:

Got two 22 oz of Hardywood Sidamo Coffe Stout

Despensed from my mini-mini-keg

OMG was it good.. Best stout I have had in a while.

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That is so bad ass!

aogg said:

At the moment I am drinking Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I want the yeast from the bottles to make a clone . I have bottled a Bell's Oberon clone and a dunkle rye. Both turned out very good.

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Not to burst your bubble, but it's just us-05. Probably just be easier (and cheaper) to buy a pack.

Working on some black coffee ATM.

CDGoin said:

Got two 22 oz of Hardywood Sidamo Coffe Stout


Despensed from my mini-mini-keg

OMG was it good.. Best stout I have had in a while.

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I really like this idea....

Showed my workers this, and within 15min we've got plans to design a 1 gallon one out in the shop

atimmerman88 said:

I really like this idea....

Showed my workers this, and within 15min we've got plans to design a 1 gallon one out in the shop

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id buy one designed for a growler. great idea, fill from the tap at home, then dispense form the tap with your friends

I'm about to start funky Fridays and have me some rodenbach 2008 grand cru then off to some Fantome printemps.

mewithstewpid said:

id buy one designed for a growler. great idea, fill from the tap at home, then dispense form the tap with your friends

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This is a Gallon (2L) and made to thread onto the 2L Growler.

Problem with making for a regular growler is the weight.. its heavy, and don't think it would adapt to a regular growler cap. But I can give it a try.

I have though ordered a 5L Mini-Keg to see if I could get this to fit that one.

BTW..

THIS IS THE DIY THREAD I STARTED

I plan on breaking it down and showing how it was built.

On key problem with this specific design.. the Beer Faucet used a funky thread, that I had to pay a machine shop to cut into a 3/4" elbow. So the seal isn't optimal.

I am going to replace it soon with a Barb and a Picnic tap. Not as cool looking, but much more functional and cheaper (no machine cost, no 3/4" elbow, no $25 beer faucet)

mewithstewpid said:

id buy one designed for a growler. great idea, fill from the tap at home, then dispense form the tap with your friends

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Still haven't coughed up the cash to keg so for now, I'm still bottle conditioning. I think one of these can handle carbing pressure. Our welder at work does pressure vessels and he felt confident it'd hold up to 100psi

Bière pour la nouvelle saison. Ha, that's what I call it when I'm being pretentious. This is my third batch based on the same idea - sacc/Brett blend saison with new school hops.

Carlsberg, baby! Tastes good to me.