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In 1986, two of my friends and I spent the night in some bushes at UCLA to be up front for the free concert for the Alarm. Security drove up and announced over the car speaker for us to come out. My friends and I, and three hundred soon to be friends poured out of every bush. To their credit, the security (perhaps overwhelmed) let us all stay and we spent the night playing baseball with a tape-ball and a stick, and various other games. The next day was the best concert I have ever been to. It was nice to see my friends as they were in 1986 on some of the footage. Youtube is great:
 
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I use a lot of Chinook in ipa's. I've used it to bitter, but mostly I use it late in the boil and to dry hop. I also mix it with simcoe and cascade as well as summit and centennial. I've never had it by itself, so I have no idea how it tastes on its own. I love my IPA's, so it definitely plays well with other hops in my opinion. Tastes are subjective, though.
 
The Dr Pepper experiment is going well. I'm not there yet, but much closer this time then the last several attempts. It's not right, but I think I made some progress this time. :)
 
passedpawn said:
I used to dislike Chinook. Way too much pine. Now I love it and just can't get enough of it in my beer. C'est la bier.
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Reading Steele's IPA book looking for ideas, I see that Steelhead Brewery's Bombay Bomber uses (used) Chinook. The Irvine location (my local brewery) just closed. I drank lots of that IPA. Since the book has the recipe I think I brew a full sized batch next weekend - too late for a starter now. I'm still going for the two small batches (smash and mixed) tomorrow.
 
I'd be interested to see the results. You going to compare chinook based beers with the finishing hops varying(chinook finishing vs no chinook)? or just do a smash with chinook to see if you really do like them.?

Random observance...chinook have the biggest cones of any hop I've used.
 
brewingmeister said:
I'd be interested to see the results. You going to compare chinook based beers with the finishing hops varying(chinook finishing vs no chinook)? or just do a smash with chinook to see if you really do like them.?

Random observance...chinook have the biggest cones of any hop I've used.
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I'm going to do the smash tomorrow. I make a centennial smash that I can compare it to. I am going to split the second gallon and dry hop it with the Yooper mix I mentioned above (below on my screen). I am tempted to due a test a la Leadgolem. My thought it to due 5 -7 seven gallons with chinook as the bittering, then pull a gallon at a time and do 5 minutes boils on the stove with different hops. I'll have to due a bit of planning for that in advance.

On a different note, I am drinking a Pliney clone, and ate a piece of cherry twizzlers. The next sip after the twizzler (cherry licorice), the hops just jumped out at me. Why is that? Sweet v. bitter on the tongue?
 
LabRatBrewer said:
I'm going to do the smash tomorrow. I make a centennial smash that I can compare it to. I am going to split the second gallon and dry hop it with the Yooper mix I mentioned above (below on my screen). I am tempted to due a test a la Leadgolem. My thought it to due 5 -7 seven gallons with chinook as the bittering, then pull a gallon at a time and do 5 minutes boils on the stove with different hops. I'll have to due a bit of planning for that in advance.

On a different note, I am drinking a Pliney clone, and ate a piece of cherry twizzlers. The next sip after the twizzler (cherry licorice), the hops just jumped out at me. Why is that? Sweet v. bitter on the tongue?
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Can't do it beer + sweets = nasty to my pallet
 
Leadgolem said:
Does that mean no mint bubblegum beer?
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Nope, never I had a Chocolate Mint Stout once reminded me of drinking a beer after rinsing with Scope. (If I remember correctly it was in a sampler pack from Stone,others liked it but for me, Blah):p

Malt sweet is good as long as there is some bitter to balance it.

I'm ok with sweet wines and an occasional mixed drink just no sweet + beer.
I can eat sweets up my first beer but not after.
 
You know, I used to think I drank to much. Then I started posting it the "What are you drinking now?" thread. Something like 21 pages more after I went to bed last night. :)
 
Leadgolem said:
You know, I used to think I drank to much. Then I started posting it the "What are you drinking now?" thread. Something like 21 pages more after I went to bed last night. :)
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I'm not one to talk about how much people drink, but you drink some gawd awful concotions. You've also got your threads per page set wrong.
 
TNGabe said:
I'm not one to talk about how much people drink, but you drink some gawd awful concotions. You've also got your threads per page set wrong.
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I also would not cast those stones. But you do come up with some "Interesting mixed drink selections" This from a guy who's wife will mix Amaretto + anything damn near (worst so far as my tastes go was cranberry):eek:
 
TNGabe said:
I'm not one to talk about how much people drink, but you drink some gawd awful concotions. You've also got your threads per page set wrong.
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Yes I do. Once in a while one of those concoctions turns out to be awesome. :)

I think you mean posts per page, but yeah. I left it on defaults.

I've got a lb of bacon in the smoker today. Apple wood smoked bacon should be yummy. My new manager wants to try the bacon topped maple glazed donuts. I thought they were ok the last time I made them, they didn't live up to the hype though.

Last time I just baked the bacon until it fully rendered. This time I'm smoking it first. I'm also going to make the glaze a bit differently. Last time it was just powdered sugar with a little real maple syrup and maple flavoring. The mixed sugars in the glaze kept it from setting the way I wanted. This time I'm going to use real maple syrup as the only liquid source. Get it much hotter then last time, and then add the powdered sugar. With less water, I'm hoping the glaze sets the way I want this time.
 
beaksnbeer said:
I also would not cast those stones. But you do come up with some "Interesting mixed drink selections" This from a guy who's wife will mix Amaretto + anything damn near (worst so far as my tastes go was cranberry):eek:
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Is that what you guys were getting at? I didn't mean it that way. Just that I feel better about how much I'm drinking now.
 
Hey Stauf, finally got your box packed. I'm going to try to drop it off after work tomorrow, but I'm not sure I can get there before the post office closes...
 
Things I should be doing, but am not today:
1. Fixing the last busted window on my back patio.
2. Fixing my garage door. I won't really care about this until next spring.
3. Cleaning, pretty much everything in my house.

I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them right now. :) The bacon is rendered. I'm letting it drain into some paper towels. Then it will get crushed into bits and go in the freezer for later donutage.
 
All I can think about is this...


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brewingmeister said:
All I can think about is this...
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This is more what I'm going for. Sticking strips of bacon on a maple long john is, IMO, a cop out.

I'm a little tipsy from the evil coffee wine, so I can't remember if I said it in this thread. I don't think the maple bacon donuts live up to the hype. They are good, but to salty in my opinion. My new manager wants to try them though, so I'll make them again.

This time I'm aiming to improve them over the last batch though. I can't help trying to do that. Every time I make the same dish, brew, whatever I have to try and make it better. Well, until I get to the point where I'm not willing to do the extra work for the next level of improvement.

As an example, I made 23 versions of oatmeal raisin cookies over the course of 3 weeks. I finally settled on recipe 18 as the optimal combination of flavor and labor.... Yeah, there might be something wrong with me.

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Hmm, I'm down to 52 gb of porn to transfer to the password protected share on my network drive. Yet another thing to finish up before the relatives come visiting.
 
Bah, bottling day was a no-go. Last minute stuff to do and a late realization that I was 6 bottles short to bottle my Merlot. I went to the LHBS where they had a bin of loose used wine bottles - a bit dirty with some labels but otherwise fine. I picked out 6 bottles for $5, brought them home and threw them in some hot PBW to soak. I'll clean them off Tuesday and hopefully will bottle then.

I'll prep my brewing gear, treat my brew water, and weigh the grains and hops Tuesday as well. I think brew night will be Halloween. Wife will be out of the house and I'll be on trick-or-treat duty. The house warlock (cunningly disguised as an unshaven, bleary-eyed, beer-drinking professor wearing jeans and an Animal House COLLEGE sweatshirt) will be attending to his brew in his cauldron.
 

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