chefchris
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i wanna brew this weekend but I'm just not gonna have the time.
got too much beer anyways.
got too much beer anyways.
i wanna brew this weekend but I'm just not gonna have the time.
got too much beer anyways.
A little coercing and a toothpick to pull the end around, but it fits. Thanks Chris.
Anyone else entering in the Hogtown Brew-Off?
For $6 and the fact that I can drive to the brewery to drop off my bottles I'm going to do it just to see if they pick up anything weird that I don't.If it's done by BJCP rules, it's a no-go for me. I don't need anyone telling me to use less roasted malts when I didn't use any roasted malts at all.
If you enter the ESB it looks like we'll be competing. I'm entering the MO/Willamette SMaSH as an ESB. I had better efficiency than I was planning on so I added some water and I think I added too much... starting gravity was around 47 or so, finished at 08.
1oz @ 45
.5oz @ 15 and 5
Picked myself up some Cigar City Humidor Gruit from Cigar City along with a growler of Jai Alai and a Rauchbier. This will be my first humidor series beer, and my first gruit. Not expecting too much, but it should be interesting!
The 3/4 IPA sounds interesting, Chris!
They have growlers of the Gruit at Tipple's I believe. Will be going there tomorrow to get one if they do.
Tipple's has the gruit in bottles. Last night, they had Stumpknocker and Jai Alai on tap. I am not crazy about the Jai Alai - it's a very good beer, but just a bit too sweet on my palate. I like the Big Nose more.
I may be getting that fridge after all if I can find someone with a truck or van to help me pick it up. Damn small cars!
Not that I hate Swamphead, but the 2 times I had big nose I kinda hated it.
What didn't you like about it? Just curious.
The Big Nose I had seemed very well balanced between the malts and hops, where the Jai Alai was a little heavy on the sweet malts for my taste.
I've gotten really sensitive to crystal malt flavors in pale ales and IPAs, which is why I try to go with darker base malts instead in my homebrewed versions. Maybe that's one of the differences between the two-type and amount of crystal.
I figure since Swamp Head is still so new, there'll be a bit of batch-to-batch variability in flavor characteristics as well.
There was a recipe tweak in Big Nose so if you had it back in November or December (or possibly January depending on Cone) then it has likely changed. I had it last night at common grounds and thought it was delicious. You have to really like Amarillo though.
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