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Not too bad at all!

Ninkasi Double Red. Awesome!!!!

My 2 toasted Ale(2-hearted-ish)Its faintly like it but deliciously unique.Toasting malt in replacement of Vienna will do that.Probably the best out of 7 batches of washed wlp005 i used,i can be a sucker for centennial though. Prettty malt sensitive yeast strain too it seems.

Nugget Nectar

Had a bottle of my English IPA that needs a little more oomph in both the malt and hop department, and now a bottle of my ESB that's a couple months old and starting really coming into its own.

Ballast Point Porter Black Marlin.

sweetcell said:

Harpoon Rye IPA - damn solid. nice strong hoppiness with a mild bite, rye woodiness, 6.9% abv. recommended.

http://www.harpoonbrewery.com/index.cfm?pid=175052

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went on a tour of the Harpoon brewery in Windsor, VT. if you happen to be in the area i strongly recommend it. not sure what the boston brewery is like, but the windsor one is way chill.

- the people there truly love their job. two different tour guides blurted out during their segment of the tour "I HAVE THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD!". infectious attitude

- they have the most kick-ass plate-chiller... as in, it can handle something like 5000+ gallons of boiling wort in less than 15 mins.

- dry-hopping requires someone to scale the outside of a 3-storey fermenter to manually drop in a large basket of hops. i want that job.

- they aren't supposed to serve you more than four 2-oz samples of their beer at the end of the tour, but they do. oh gawd to they ever (hic!)

- saw several 44-pound bags of hops laying around, including falconer's flight... drool.

Harpoon will always hold a special place in my heart because we had a keg of their summer ale at my wedding. that being said, i also recognize some of their offerings are a tad same-y. however i can heartily recommend any and all of the following, which i both sampled today and walked away with:

- Rich & Dan's Rye IPA (see above)
- Catamount Maple Wheat: good maple taste without being too sweet. alone it's worth the trip up to the brewery.
- Leviathan Imperial IPA: everything you'd expect in a IIPA. delicious.
- Leviathan Quad - OMG OMG OMG one of the tastiest american-made quadrupels i've ever had. amazing balance of sweetness and alcohol heat. i bought their very last case of the stuff. those bottles are going straight to my cellar. looking forward to enjoying these as their complexity develops over the months and years #kidinacandyshop.
- Leviathan Barleywine - the only one i didn't sample today, but one can't really go wrong with a barleywine (especially if aged a few month/years, as i intend to do with this 4-pack)
- Leviathan Triticus - walked out with a growler of this stuff because they barrel-aged the draft version in bourbon barrels (bottled stuff isn't). it was absolutely amazing. can't wait to crack into this one next weekend.

Harpoon's regular-gravity beers are decent to very good, but these guys really know how to make strong & flavorful beers. i'm very lucky that my in-laws live a few miles up the road from windsor :rockin:

Sam Adams latitude 48, Shiner Wild Hare, Arrogant Bastard, my own APA, and my own Blonde!

Great divide 18th

bklando said:

What recipe did you use? Sounds good.

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Im on my phone. Im gonna try to upload it.

SN Torpedo extra IPA

Batch size: 5.2 gal
Boil volume: 6.5 gal
OG: 1.083
FG: 1.021
Bitterness (IBU): 65.3
Color (SRM): 10.1
ABV: 8.2%

[Grains]
Two-row (US) 13.500lb Grain 90.3%
Crystal 60L 1.000lb Grain 6.7%
Pilsener (German) 0.450lb Grain 3.0%

[Hops]
Magnum 1.00oz 13.5% AA Pellet @ 60 min, 38.2 IBU
Magnum 0.50oz 13.5% AA Pellet @ 30 min, 14.7 IBU
Magnum 1.35oz 13.5% AA Pellet @ 5 min, 10.3 IBU
Crystal 1.00oz 3.9% AA Pellet @ 5 min, 2.2 IBU
Falconers Flight 0.65oz 11.4% AA Pellet @ Dry Hop
Crystal 0.65oz 3.9% AA Pellet @ Dry Hop
Magnum 0.65oz 13.5% AA Pellet @ Dry Hop
Amarillo 0.50oz 8.0% AA Pellet @ Dry Hop

[Yeast/Other]
Safale US-05 1.0 unit(s), Yeast

[Recipe Notes]
Mash at 155 - 156 for 1 hour. Dry hop for 14 days after primary fermentation.

[Batch Notes]
At transfer to secondary after 8 days of primary. The gravity was 1.014.


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My version(not exact) of Lakefronts esb.Its not that great but i think the origional may be less great. Im going to have to confirm it by comparing it.Its actually better than what it use to be after a few months.

Summer shandy

I love me some torpedo!

Right now, a double milk chocolate stout. I thought it might be too thin, but its rounding itself out well. THICK head, nice lace, and the coffee and bitter are rounding themselves in. I gotta leave this alone for another week or two in the keg, if I can.

Saranac White IPA. http://www.saranac.com/page/white-ipa. Pretty good over all, I'd say. The only unsettling part (as a home brewer who tries to avoid sediment pouring) is sediment surfacing and diving (I'm sure some of my bubble-head buddies can give me the correct Navy terminology for this.)

Sam Adam's Amber Ale now after brewing my hard cider. Hopefully it turns out well. I just winged it since I have never made it before.

My first SMaSH, a 2 row, Cascade ale with coopers yeast.

Refreshing, Very clean citrus smell and flavor, hardly any malt flavor. Its like a hard citrus drink. Not much of a beer, but fun.

Oatmeal Stout.

Miller Lite now. All out of everything else but this and Budweiser.

New belgium shift pale lager

aharri1 said:

New belgium shift pale lager

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Bought a four pack. Usually love NB beers but hated this. What did you think?

We were tasting Rye Beers last night: Harpoon Rye IPA and Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye. Both fantastic!

Homebrewed oatmeal stout, the a versa hefe (weisse versa... geddit?)

Renegade's Russian Imperial Stout, holds its own against The Czar from Avery, and brewed only blocks away.

My honey kolsch..getting better the longer it sits in the fridge

Just finished a nice American Black Ale, now I am going to have a an Oatmeal Stout!

Heady Topper.

Skelator said:

Heady Topper.

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YUM. I just finished a "big ginger", next is a home brewed Oud Bruin made with the Wyeast olde ale blend, made by a friend of mine.

Commodore perry ipa.

Damn I forgot how good this beer is.

corona familiar
corona ain't half bad when it comes from a brown bottle, although i bought it just for the bottle

Sculpin IPA

usfmikeb said:

Sculpin IPA

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Also drinking sculpin...Yummy!!
Haven't had sculpin in a year....too many good beers to choose from in SD!!

Stone Smoked Porter

usfmikeb said:

Sculpin IPA

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+1, brewed this yesterday and it smelled de-lish!

Lagunitas little sumpin...very nice.

Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze

About to pour a DFH 120 Min. I hope this years crop lives up to the hype.

Green Flash West Coast Ipa.Well deserved name.Big floaties too.Its whats on the inside that counts.

Wus67 said:

About to pour a DFH 120 Min. I hope this years crop lives up to the hype.

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If it does, it will be the first one.