the_bird said:
If it helps, why don't you ship a couple cases out to your buddies, so that it doesn't completely take over your basement...
Seriously, after a certain point, there's no need to keep brewing that much - if it doesn't get drunk, it'll end up sitting around too long. Methinks you need to throw yourself a kick-ass party, invite all your buds, and drink up some of that stash.
Yeah, along those lines, bird, you'll be getting more than you bargained for when I send those bottles out. I got the box and the bubble wrap ready, and am planning to send it out tomorrow. :rockin: There'll be some weird stuff, like the lemon-lime pale, but just roll with it. And please don't feel the need to reciprocate in kind.
Honestly, I just want more stouts & porters right now. Stout and porter are some of my favorite brews outside of wacky belgian stuff that I can't reproduce. I think, from here on in, for the more part, I'm going the way of Walker. Gonna concentrate on perfecting my favorites. Steffiwiezen, Dark Horse Stout, IPA(s), Smoked Porter...and then some seasonal ones here and there. I've, for the most part, gotten the crazy experimentation stage out of my system; though, there will always be new stuff I wanna try.
As it stands now, I think I want to dump the oatmeal stout that never got any less sour. Damn papazian and his whole "dry hop your oatmeal stout with crystal pellets" idea. Totally screwed up a damn fine beer. I mean, who wants a sour stout? And, unfortunately, I'm contemplating dumping what I have left of the Goat Scrotum, which, again, Papazian screwed me by suggesting an ounce of spruce extract. Now, it's all pine tree, to the point of being absurd. Ah well. Such is life. I'd like to try the goat scrotum again, this time without the goddamned pine tree air freshener.
Anyway, enough rambling. Thanks for agreeing with my wife, Jay---I have way too much beer already, and, well, I have a tendency to not listen to her when it comes to this, because of her bias (she doesn't like it too much when I brew, because she doesn't get to see me, and it also means I'm not working on the basement renovation either). So, yeah...thanks.
One more thing: I have some Wit and Weihenstephaner Wheat yeast packs. In order for a wit and a hefe to be drinking for the summer, when should I brew them? I know a hefe is drinkable right outta primary pretty much...but since it gets hot in my basement pretty quickly, I don't want to wait too long.