What are you drinking now?

Lagunitas IPA and Deschutes Black Butte Porter.

Haputanlas said:

Pliny!

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You sir, suck! Primarily because I can't get Pliny here.

Abita Purple Haze at the moment for me.

a Red IPA that I dry hopped with simcoe. Delicious.

Mystery ale, made up of all the leftover hops, dme
, lme, etc I had last fall.

My Mistake Rye ...it's fantastic and I'll never be able to duplicate it !

Haputanlas said:

Pliny!

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Never had it ...

Just finished a William's Brown Ale. Better than Newcastle. . . .

NRS

Just finished off a Fat Heads Hop Juju (which I got direct from the brewer since they don't even bottle it) & DFH My Antonia...I think a Great Lakes Doppelrock is a great way to cap off a night of diverse delicious beers!

Whutever said:

Abita Purple Haze at the moment for me.

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By choice? That's my least favorite abita. I was fortunate enough to have an SOS and a jockamo tonight.

Just had my first Bells two hearted, on a food and beer pulgrimage with the SWMBO

Bell's Two-Hearted, (close as they come) HB clone for me.

Abita Strawberry Harvest.

Canadian Ale I call camp fire ale

I am not a fan of Hawaiian beers at all...had a Kona Brew Co. brew the other day.

My first smash beer.. Admittedly made with DME but totally Fuggles. 60 minute, 30 minutes, 15 minutes and dry hopped. I call it FFF - Feckin Fantastic Fuggles.

It's not bad, but needs another couple if weeks more to fully condition.

Going to try the same recipe again but with different hops - Goldings next - (GGG -generally gorgeous goldings) to try to educate my palate with the subleties of the different varieties.

Might even try a few american hops!

My most favorite beer!!

Friend smuggled some DFH 90min. IPA to Canada for me.. just about to try one.

Palo Alto Brewing's "Hoppy Ending"

A very good Pale Ale. Carbonation is spot on. and the hoppiness is indeed happy
Redhead on the label = win!

Northern brewer's Chinook IPA recipe, while making AHS's devil's brew. Two of my favorites.

Kitten puncher pale ale. It's the house ale.

What are you drinking now?

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Not what I want to be drinking.

Water, to many Goose island matildas last night

Nice session beer!!

Unfortunately...air. Drank the last of my purple haze wheat last night. Got a lemon wheat and a hefeweizen days away from kegging!

DALE'S PALE ALE from COLORADO

Mojo IPA from boulder beer co.

homebrew, a little bit of each keg..
centennial IPA, belgian saison, cream of three crops.

Drinking my first apfelwein. It's hard to tell from the picture but it's crystal clear. Good carbonation and 10.3% ABV, this stuff is gonna be deadly...

jvcjbl said:

Nice session beer!!

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Very nice.. I haven't tried that one, but I really like their Kilt Lifter.

bruin_ale said:

Very nice.. I haven't tried that one, but I really like their Kilt Lifter.

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I haven't had their Kilt Lifter, something about the name turns me off from Four Peaks Kilt Lifter back in AZ which I didn't like at all.

Homebrew honey cream ale... Easy to drink, with a nice ABV to it (6.8%)... Already planning on brewing another version of it (for 5/7)...

Traveling, goose island sofia, matlida, and summer time. Taste as good as it did before the merger. Hope it stays this way. I think they make some great beers!

Home brewed whatever. Don't care what category it's supposed to fall in but it tastes damn good and there are 40 pints of it in my cellar.

Ol mean stout. From Dunedin brewrey

A glass half empty? Or a glass half full?

Lagunitas "Undercover Investigator Shut Down Ale"

In an attempt to broaden my horizons, I chose this one from the BJCP commercial examples of a Scottish Ale. I figured I should try something representative to compare with my homebrew recipe.



and after pouring



I was really surprised at the complexity of the Belhaven. It has a smoky, nutty, earthy flavor with a huge after taste. The hops are fairly pronounced, though it rates somewhat low. My home brew in comparison is far sweeter with little after taste and much more subdued hops. I tried leaf EKG for this one and they came with a much lower alpha acid than anticipated. I suspect the imported leaf hops just don't retain the flavor like the pellets or American leaf hops.

In my next attempt I'm using the whitbread strain, open fermentation and first gold pellet hops in an attempt to add to the complexity.

Strangely, in the BSA, there's something to the aftertaste that distinctly reminds me of Grolsch...

An experience in a bottle... OMG!!!

My second all grain and first Belgian Pale Ale. Perfect carbonation and clarity. Great fruity nose and slightly spicy. I'll be sad when it's gone.

jvcjbl said:

An experience in a bottle... OMG!!!

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That glass is awesome