"CCCA" (Chinook, Columbus, Cascade, Amarillo) Black IPA. Er... Cascadian Dark Ale... American Stout. Whatever. An opaque beer that I brewed.
Gah, I must be getting tipsified if I posted that. Sorry, it's been two weeks since we did the tasting and my head is still so dang big I don't know what to do with myself. On another, smaller, homebrew forum we set up a funky beer swap. I emailed Oldsock aka the Mad Fermentationist seeing if he'd be our 'celeb' taster. He didn't think he fit the bill, but suggested a few pros who might be receptive to participating, Shaun (and Dan, his assistant) included.
But seriously, while I'm bragging, Shaun Hill likes my homebrew saison! Mashed in a cooler and boiled in a keg on my back porch. I even had to entice a couple pigs back into the fence while I was brewing this one, don't get more farmhouse than that. Course they're both sausage and bacon now.
Anywho, sorry for the bragging.
60% pale malt
20% heritage (vienna/municish)
20% red (turkey) wheat
10% Turbinado
(yeah, that's 110%, if it doesn't make sense, malt % is weight and sugar is extract)
1.062 OG, fermented with ECY03, bottled at 1.005
Barley is 6 row, turkey is a heritage wheat. Grown in NC and malted by Brian & Brent at Riverbend in Asheville. Whoops, sub abruzzi rye for turkey wheat- this is a rye saison - I used wheat in the nelson dry hopped version.
90 minute boil. Bittered with a half + an eighth oz citra at 60, qtr + 8th ea citra and nelson at 15 and flameout, dry hopped oz citra 1 week.
It's a freaking good beer. I didn't adjust my water at all and because this is a pale beer, I've been told to make sure kettle pH is 5.2. Did that on the last batch of petite saison with lactic acid. Still in fermenter, but wow! Makes the difference from 'really, really good - did I brew this?' to 'wow, who snuck fancy beer into my fermenter?'
WesleyBrewViking said:I actually got the tequila to make margaritas for my wife and it's been sitting around half-full for a long time. Thought I'd finish it off.
Fullers London Pride. Had never seen it in a can until Saturday, much less for the killer deal of 4.99/sixer, at TJs
Every time I see a sixer of lagunitas sucks at the store I think of this thread.....still haven't pulled the trigger though!
I get no skunk at all, but there's clearly an a$$ ton of Citra in the late hops. I'm also getting quite a bit of malt sweetness, more than you typically find in a Lagunitas brew. I don't know how you're getting a mouthful of pennies, but we all have different palates, so you're clearly getting something I am not.
On my second one.
WesleyS said:Just seeing that picture gives me a hangover and makes me want to puke. That's some truly horrible stuff.
nukebrewer said:I get no skunk at all, but there's clearly an a$$ ton of Citra in the late hops. I'm also getting quite a bit of malt sweetness, more than you typically find in a Lagunitas brew. I don't know how you're getting a mouthful of pennies, but we all have different palates, so you're clearly getting something I am not.
WesleyS said:My Promised Land Stout.
Second what with that little drunk face? 4 pack? case? Nuke, man, myth, legend on a couple tall boys with a pacifist robot on the can? I could almost dancing banana or rainbow afro you right now.
The is because everything I had before the Gandhi-bot. And at 8.8% two of them stacked on the rest gets you a little drunk. And for the record, I'm not that drunk, but the drunk face was the most appropriate .
bottlebomber said:Lactose and honey?
bottlebomber said:Margaritaville is worse... :O===
Oh, you're nuke. Don't you lie.
Margaritaville is worse... :O===
It is sweeter, I think I calculated the FG to be 1.023 or something like that, pretty sweet actually but balanced. Truly delicious. No pennies at all.
Lactose and honey?
*cough* wth, did they dry hop this with copper filings? Disgusting.
Me no internet good, you no good internet either. "+
Not drinking anything tonight. I've been sick.
TNGabe said:Me no internet good, you no good internet either. "+
Thanks you. I try to stay on topic.That makes about as much sense as telling everyone you got a 2x4 to the face once and then showing a picture of your puppy.
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