Tuesday Night: What are you drinking now?

i just went out to eat and had a couple glasses of widmere brothers hefe

Just finished the first bottle of my English Dark Mild. I think it's got a little way to go as it's only been in the bottle for a week but even still, not bad at all. I do wish I had added a bit of oatmeal or dextrin malt to add a little bit more body, though.

2nd pint of ESB to be followed by a mai-tai

CGengo said:

Just finished the first bottle of my English Dark Mild. I think it's got a little way to go as it's only been in the bottle for a week but even still, not bad at all. I do wish I had added a bit of oatmeal or dextrin malt to add a little bit more body, though.

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Mash high, like 158 for 40 minutes to add some chewiness.

IPA that I went a little crazy on the hops. I love brewing drunk.

Cappuccinos, tonight was a rest night for my liver. Tomorrow...I think I will start with a Stoudt's Double IPA and then do a Victory Storm King Stout. Been drinking the homebrew lately...time for a little craft.

Homebrew blonde bomb before i went out... Went to a great local brewery, Boscos, and had a couple great brews a Scottish Ale and what the call "Hop God" the IBU was listed as "beyond all feasible calculation" or something to that affect.. now, just regular old shinerbock

I went to Oggi's with a friend and had their "torrey pines" cask conditioned IPA as well as their Scottish ale and belgian style ale.

funny thing about Oggi's is they have a very decent american style lager that my friend ordered. he let his GF try his beer and she thought it tasted great. well I saw her eyeing my beer and I told her not to even bother because she would not like it. she asks why and I say, "you only like to drink miller lite. this is a cask conditioned IPA so it's a little hard core to introduce to a BMC person. if you want to try a decent beer wait for the next one and I'll get something a little more towards your style." well she had none of this and insisted on trying my beer. "ok.", I said. well she took a tiny sip and looked at me and said, "it tastes like really heavy beer that has been sitting out for a week served at room temperature." all I could say to her was I told you so.

needless to say she refused to try any other beer I got tonight.

I'm so glad I live 30 min from victory. Hop walloop on cask FTW!

DFH Chicory Stout

Anderson Valley Hop Ottin' IPA. Not bad.

stopped at the grocery store on my way out of work and picked up a 6 of Leffe Blonde.

flyangler18 said:

Mash high, like 158 for 40 minutes to add some chewiness.

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Yeah, still doing mini-mash currently and the high mash didn't seem to add quite enough body for my tastes. Of course, it could have been that my thermometer was out of calibration and I was actually mashing around 170...it seemed to convert though, maybe not so much. We'll see how it matures over the next few weeks.

Proper pub. Proper beer.

The Glenrothes. Speyside.