What are you drinking now?

Just kegged my Abili Red Mild, put it on 40 psi. I'll move it to the conditioning cabinet tomorrow or Monday. Had a couple pints extra, so those went into a 2L with the Carbonator cap. I'll probably have one with dinner.

Sierra Nevada 2007 Celebration ale relaxing after cleanup for 10G of Campfire Porter with TheGuy. Missed OG by 4 points, but 4 too many so it's OK

Barley's Brewing (Columbus) Rye IPA.

Deschutes Obsidian Stout... Planning on brewing Best Bitter from morebeer.com tomorrow.

david_42 said:

Just kegged my Abili Red Mild, put it on 40 psi. I'll move it to the conditioning cabinet tomorrow or Monday. Had a couple pints extra, so those went into a 2L with the Carbonator cap. I'll probably have one with dinner.

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So you weren't having any beer while replying to this thread? AND you were kegging beer??? Should I be worried?

I'm having a YooperBrew Dead Guy Clone that I made with WLP051 yeast. Very close to the real thing :rockin:

tasting the IPA. it's a little bitter.. and a little malty but a whole lot of :rockin:

Troeg's Scratch #21 (aka Naked Elf).

Amazing how much flavor the yeast carries. Still tastes like an Elf even without the Cherries, Honey or Chocolate malt. Still fumes of high-octane although a bit lower in abv due to the reduction in sweets.

Overall, a very good brew and while not for everyday, a nice treat on this occasion.

ack from BJCP Study Class #2, sampled tonight were:

Black Sheep Best Bitter
Samuel Smith's Old Brewery Pale Ale
Smuttynose Old Brown Dog Ale
Tröegs Hopback Amber
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale
Dogfish Head 60 minute
Victory Hop Wallop

And a badly oxidized Paulaner Pilsner for the mock judging...blegh.

taste testing night.

1. 2009 Holiday Stout ---- chocolate, vanilla, nutmeg and bourbon notes. After two months of secondary and tertiary conditioning, it is now ready to be bottled for the holidays.

2. Smoked Porter --- ready for keg and bottles! Smooth and Smokey.

3. 2008 Heroic Mead --- Sweet Mead ready for the bottle---will age another year or more.

4. 2008 Multi-Berry Mead -- Ready to bottle. But I might keg and carb this one. It is really smooth and drinkable now. Decisions, Decisions.

A Jubelale from the stash I've set aside since xmas.

McClellan's Islay Scotch.

Damn do the Mets suck.

Westmalle Dubbel, Delirium Tremens, Graff, Bulleit Bourbon!

My English IPA. The hops have become quite subdued and the marris otter is prominent but tasty. Still could use some more fuggle, however. I'm gonna brew this again and up the hops.

ChshreCat said:

A Jubelale from the stash I've set aside since xmas.

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How is it? I didn't like mine...perhaps I should have aged it?

DeathBrewer said:

How is it? I didn't like mine...perhaps I should have aged it?

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Oh, this is the real deal, not a clone. I have a half case I set aside. Though, I'm planning on cloning it sometime soon.

Dale's Pale Ale, the Rocky Mountain Pale Ale in a can! There must be a pound of Cascade hops in every one. And my own Green Chile Blonde.

Dieu du Ciel! Corne du diable (Horn of the devil)
American IPA
6.5%

Red Chair IPA.

Scored a Black Butte XXI and a Mirror Mirror as well...
will save those however.

sweet sweet milk.....from my frosted flakes bowl

DFH Olde school barleywine. 6 months has not tamed the syrupy tangy flavor of this beast. But at 15%, I guess its coming around. 2 more from the 4 pack, 12 more months to go.

IrregularPulse said:

sweet sweet milk.....from my frosted flakes bowl

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Is it grrrrrrrrrreat?

First glass of my Ms. Pacman American Wheat. Simple w/ Willamette hops. Tastes pretty good but not ready yet! Come on beer, carb for me.

Moving on to a 22 of the amazing Green Flash Le Freak.

AW - strawberry-kiwi ~ 8.5ABV.....

Dead Guy after oak, copperhook and some Hefe

Delayed the Le Freak and shared a 750ml of Cascade Brewing "The Vine" Northwest Style Sour Ale w/ Grapes. 6 months of lactic fermentation in oak barrels.

The Lady and I are both loving it. Used to go to "Racoon Lodge" , Cascade's Brewing's restaurant, like 7 years ago and never got into their beers, but damn they are hitting their stride with all these amazing Sours. Art Larrance (sp?) the guy who runs it is the founder of the Oregon Brewer's Festival. This bottle is making me seriously want to go back there and try everything they have.

Picobrew said:

First glass of my Ms. Pacman American Wheat. Simple w/ Willamette hops.

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American wheat with pacman yeasties? May have to try that.

thataintchicken said:

American wheat with pacman yeasties? May have to try that.

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I'm not sold on it yet, but it really needs a few more days in the kegerator (at least). I'll report back, either way.

Bell's brewing co. porter... yum!

Bell's Pale Ale... eh... expected better. win some lose some.

I'm currently working on a bomber of Avery/Russian River Collaboration Not Litigation Ale

I really enjoy this beer, although it finishes a tad sweet for my taste. I think it would be interesting if instead of blending a Strong Dark and a Dubbel, they blended a Strong Dark and a Tripel.



This was preceded by a Deschutes Inversion IPA. A pretty good IPA although when it comes down to it, I'd rather have a Stone IPA or a Ruination.

Hittin a homebrewed sweet stout that had some coffee malt as an experiment, conclusion, it's good!

Marin Brewing Co. San Quentin's Breakout Stout

Dark, tasty goodness! Not as good as when one visits the brewpub in Larkspur, but still not too shabby for a $3 tall boy.

Another BJCP class, another list of beers sampled:

Späten Optimator
Köstritzer Schwarzbier
Hofbräuhaus Maibock
DAB Dortmunder Export
Anchor Steam
Warsteiner Dunkel
Duchesse de Bourgogne
Lindemans Cuvée René

Think I got them all.

Gatorade Cool Blue.

Ommegang Rare Vos and Unibroue La Fin du Monde

Woot! It was 'keep the glass' night!



(I really liked Rare Vos and thought La Fin du Monde was okay, but too sweet.)

Homebrewed Kolsch....

I just popped one of my IPAs (actually, my first IPA) to check the carbonation level after a week. It still needs a little more time to carb, but holy **** this is a tasty brew.

Lagunitas Hop Stoopid. I'm really starting to fall in love with this beer...

Erdinger Hefe.... I bought a sixxer of this once where you'd use the bottom of one bottle to open the next, what happened to that?

Maui Brewing Coconut Porter.

Like Hot Chicks on the Beach.