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Pretty impressive honey aroma/taste and well rounded. When the idea of honey ale sounds good this is what you would imagine a good honey ale to taste like. Its kinda what I thought a mead would taste like(still havent tried a good one,cept Rogues wine/tea tasting mead thing). Its kinda like butter/buiscuit/honey.With a complementary mellow hop orangish citrus finish. Tastey as all hell.
BA-DA-YUMN

 

Aberlour A'bunadh. I'm probably going to have a coffee stout shortly as a nightcap.

 

Agreed. Every other beer I have tried from them has been super-mediocre.

 

Terrapin Hopsecutioner. Other than Cigar City, this is as good as it gets in Florida. Excellent beer, too bad it's not widely available.

 

Oskar Blues Gubna. Holy hell, where has this been my entire life?

 

I was looking for that at the liquor store today, but they didn't have it.

 

Keep looking. It's awesome.

 

2L of elephant clone, aventinus, four stone IPA, lagunitas sucks, and maybe another. 5L of elephant clone... WTF is this long weekend ****? I'll be at work at 6AM. Skål!

 

HB dubbel

 

Just got off another 12 hour night shift so I brain farted and forgot the include the bottle in this picture, but it's Wake 'n Bake from Terrapin, kindly provided to me by allenH. It's really well done. Not too heavy any one way but very balanced. Usually this type of beer is either too coffee-y or too chocolatey bitter, but Terrapin got it right.

 

The last Kiwi Red Ale. Between reading BCS and the style guidelines I've determined that this fits in pretty squarely as an American Amber so I made the last minute decision to enter this as an American Amber for the comp I'm sending it to instead of the specialty category.

 

HB Pecan Pie Ale. Coming along nicely but needs some more time to carb and reach its full potnential

 

Come on, people! It's 6:45 am on a Monday. Where are all my dedicated drinkers?

Drinking one of Stauff's vanilla porters. Nice vanilla and roasty notes don't compete much with each other, no astringency which is common for any of the darker styles. There's even hints of coffee and chocolate in the background. I would love to brew this myself some time.

 

allenH graciously included two of these in our trade and I am very grateful. Reminds me of Hobgoblin but with much... not better, but more amplified hop character. Maybe just a little bit drier as well. Very awesome American brown.

 

Stauff's pumpkin porter. Very good porter with some pumpkin and smoky character to it. Me likes!

 

There wasn't a whole lot of aroma or hop flavor present in the 3 bottles I had. Had a bit of hotness to it as well. Just wasn't overall one my favorite IIPA's.

I need to double check the date code on the bottles, I've had them since Christmas so maybe they are just old. Could just be me.

I was more impressed with Hibernation & Yeti, I've got a Belgian Yeti in the fridge I'm saving for a special occasion I'm particularly excited for.

 

Well the bottles I got are a little over 2 months old. Hopefully they weren't a waste of money.

 

Coffee while waiting on my strike water. IIPA today!

 

Nice! More hops!!!!

 

My first 2x Energy Rockstar for the day... I have to work today and stayed up late drinking quite a bit of my IIPA last night. Totally worth it!

 

yep - over 10 ounces total :rockin:

 

Alright - it's not drinking, but I have to think "drinking" in the aroma from 12.25 ounces of Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra and Cascade has to count for something!

 

MOAR HOPS!!!!
That's gonna be a damn fine IIPA

 

That is beautiful!

 

Sorry to bring up an old post but no, that is a huge myth that some Texans have convinced other Texans of. You have the right to break up the state into 4 smaller states, but there is no state that can legally secede from the Union.

And that is a great photo!

 

That's what I'm talking about. Double IPA needs double digit ozs of hops. :rockin:

 

Impressive. Most impressive.



Oh yeah - and waiting for the wort to hit boil.

 

Inspiration as my boil nears the end.

 

White House Honey Porter

 

Ive been trying to find a AG version of this but cant. Anyone got one??

 

Here you go bro. Check it out and see what you think.

http://store.brooklyn-homebrew.com/the-white-house-honey-porter-all-grain-kit/dp/3526

This is the LHBS i frequent. They are great and ingredients are always fresh. they make quality kits. Not sure how much shipping will he to you but check it out.

Good brewing

Dave

 

http://brewmasterstore.com/recipes.aspx?id=White House Honey Porter (All Grain).html

Haven't tried it but...

 

Cool thanks guys! Always adding to the brewing schedule.

 

HB pale ale. A loose clone of Firestones pale 31. I'm not quite finished working on the hop profile. I think I'm a little too piney for it.

 

My brew day buzz was starting to fade - this ought to do the trick!

 

Hopslam on tap @ Quenchers in Chicago Illinois.

 

my Weizenbock to go with twice baked potatoes.

 

Probably the last for today - I *do* have to work tomorrow!