Recent content by Hoochin'Fool

You can't just post a pic of a brand that I love with a beer I've never seen, and not give us some tasting notes!

Recipe research at Spiral Brewing ... a delicious hazy!

Do you give brewery tours to the public? That looks amazing! :rock:

My road (to favorite hot-weather-beer) seems to be converging on: the subdued bittering but hoppy flavor intensity typical of a NEIPA/Hazy beer the tropical hop-flavors, drier finish, lack-of-haze, and minimalist grist of a NewWCIPA that remains reasonably sessionable enough that I can have 2...

This is a pretty wild post! Can't tell if you want to make GLUE, or you just want to use "free" ingredients (like leftover cooked rice)... But if you want to make a "light, kinda sweet beer, that is easy to drink and refeshing", I'd aim for something like: og: 1040, fg: 1005, abv 4.6%, ibu: 15...

Both of those look delicious! Please report back after you try them!

HB imperial stout, has gotten much smoother after 18 months in bottles in a cool basement. Tasting (unintentionally) very much like Expedition Stout (Bell's brewery)!

6% abv HB Peanut Butter Stout... Turned out amazeballs!

For what it's worth, I made a 1.046 OG sugar/RO batch, and got it to ferment down to 1.000 (I still see some bubbles drifting up in the hydrometer/cheapskate's tilt) in ten days (EC-1118). For me, the key was: 1 gram Fermaid-K per gallon of water 1 gram Calcium Chloride per gallon of water 1...

My sister buys some hazelnut roasted coffee beans that the rest of my family loves (and I detest!) so that was the inspiration for my post :rock: (I love all kinds of crazy flavors in my stouts, but coffee? In the morning, when I'm just trying to wake up? No thanks!)

Make a hop tea, to add some concentrated bitterness. Would fix the "too sweet" part, but can't replace the "kolsch fruit kick you usually get". BrewersFriend IBU calculator makes it pretty simple (I've done it myself).

Not everyone wants to share a full pot of hazelnut coffee!!! Get her one of these, and then anyone who wants it can add it to taste, and anyone who hates it, doesn't have to brew a separate pot! https://www.walmart.com/ip/Torani-Classic-Hazelnut-Syrup-12-7-fl-oz/16564947