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[Psylocide]

Lost count lol
That's a crap ton of tap handles.

I got 29. You ran out of fingers/toes... we know.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Avery is funking awesome. Left to right is a perzik saison, daywalker ba ginger sour, expletus, and eremita IX a dark sour aged in tequila barrels.

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I love that place. Wish there was a place like that around here. I'll be more broke than I am. Make sure you go upstairs to the store. Might have some goodies there

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Damn... Behind 28 pages! Who won the jelly bean deal? I saw something about voting and sending beer. I vote brewer77. Only because I want to see more selfies. Is he related to billyklub?

Yes, sompls won the jelly bean contest. Beer going out soonish (just need to bottle one more batch and do labels)

Lost count lol
That's a crap ton of tap handles.

Hey - next time you do a Bespoke grilled cheese, drizzle a bit of Ed Humptress on it. Next level.

 

[Psylocide]

Bespeaking of Bespoke... anyone done a PB&BaconJ with that?

I'd eat it.

 

[finsfan]

Just for the record, there are 30 taps.

Also, god damn this place is expensive! $9 for the 5oz pour of expletus

 

[Psylocide]

Just for the record, there are 30 taps.

Also, god damn this place is expensive! $9 for the 5oz pour of expletus

Feck. All pictured? I counted 30 once, but got 29 twice.

Then the damn glasses up top kept playing tricks on my eyes.

Of course, being within 1 is enough to get you free beer in some places.

 

[TobyG]

Few local breweries are putting out scotch ales lately. Not a fan of the style or I'd try them.

Scotch ales aren't hard to find. Good ones are. Most of them are either smoky or sweet messes. There's a local that used to make a good one in the mid-90s, but they are only in the prep stages for coming back online as a brewpub (the original partners split around 1999 and one of them is finally about to bring back the recipes).

Will be on the lookout for some. Is it seasonal or rare or some other beer hunter descriptive?

It's limited release, only in November.

Is a scotch ale just usually aged in scotch barrels, or is it using smoked malt and therefore tastes a lot like scotch? I've been interested to try one, but not if it just tastes like scotch.

It should not taste like a 'smoky' scotch _at_all_. Complex maltiness and some caramel, toffee, and toast with a touch of roast. The closest thing to a commercial example that I like these days is Old Chub. Dirty Bastard is too bland and sweet, IMO, and Backwoods Bastard and Wulver are barrel aged, so not strictly to style. McEwan's was always my go to in the 90s from a commercial perspective, but they disappeared for a while and when they came back, I found it was a dumbed down version (for financial reasons no doubt).

So then is it typically more a whiskey malt or a "regular" smoked malt?

Neither. Standard pale ale malt like Maris Otter makes up the majority of the grist. Usually a couple darker crystals and roasted barley for color, although honestly mine is just pale ale malt, C10, Carafoam, and roasted barley. Water and a long mash and boil are where you get the sugars to have the maillard reaction to get the complexity and character. Yeast contributes a faint smokiness in some circumstances, but smoked malt should never be used.

 

[finsfan]

Feck. All pictured? I counted 30 once, but got 29 twice.

Then the damn glasses up top kept playing tricks on my eyes.

Of course, being within 1 is enough to get you free beer in some places.

Beer is expensive here, not free. I may have left the far right one out the picture.

Also also, best chicken and a biscuit ive ever had. Id eat these biscuits for breakfast lunch and dinner.

 

[Psylocide]

Beer is expensive here, not free. I may have left the far right one out the picture.

Also also, best chicken and a biscuit ive ever had. Id eat these biscuits for breakfast lunch and dinner.

Oh you fancy eh?

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Make them really go crazy and get a pic of the gold foil cooler....

Pizza and beer lunch sounds about right.

Beer.... Might have a few beers tonight.

 

[hunter_le five]

@hunter_la5

Hi.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Feck. All pictured? I counted 30 once, but got 29 twice.

Then the damn glasses up top kept playing tricks on my eyes.

Of course, being within 1 is enough to get you free beer in some places.

Just depends on which side of the right number that 1 is. Ask Qhurmphf!

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

Yes, sompls won the jelly bean contest. Beer going out soonish (just need to bottle one more batch and do labels)



Hey - next time you do a Bespoke grilled cheese, drizzle a bit of Ed Humptress on it. Next level.

Noted. Maybe this weekend for lunch I'll give that a whirl.
Sounds pretty damned good.

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

Hi. @m00ps

ftfy

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

Bespeaking of Bespoke... anyone done a PB&BaconJ with that?

I'd eat it.

I haven't really started to experiment with the sweet possibilities of the jam yet. I'm still on meats and cheeses combos.

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

oh man, nearly forgot. Happy Birthday Gavin!

 

[Psylocide]

Happy Birthday @Gavin

 

[hunter_le five]

Damn! How did I miss it? Happy Birthday Gavin you untaggable sonofabitch!

 

[TheCADJockey]

Happy Birthday @GavinMcSciencePants !

 

[blizzard]

Just for the record, there are 30 taps.

Also, god damn this place is expensive! $9 for the 5oz pour of expletus

Yep, that's my biggest complaint. 12 oz bottle = $12. 5 oz on tap = $9. Wtf?

Also also, best chicken and a biscuit ive ever had. Id eat these biscuits for breakfast lunch and dinner.

+1 wish the biscuit was bigger.

Complain, complain. Still a good spot. We like to go in the summer, walk the dag around the off leash lake area across the street and then grab lunch on the patio.

 

[BreezyBrew]

Happy Birthday Gavbro! Hope you are having beers somewheres.

 

[finsfan]

Cant complain about the beers now. They were comped.

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[BeerMeDuffMan]

Cant complain about the beers now. They were comped.

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Any glassware porn?

 

[TheCADJockey]

Man I love my job too. Can't post any pictures to make you guys jelly, since it's all highly confidential space stuff.. you wouldn't understand anyway. It's just a bunch of really confusing calculations and technical drawings.

 

[finsfan]

Any glassware porn?

No but i did buy the $15 cognac glass.

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

No but i did buy the $15 cognac glass.

a 24 ounce jawn?

 

[wobrien]

Thanks for the recommendation @ridire
Getting excited for opening day
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[Gavin C]

Thanks to all for the heartfelt warm birthday wishes. These truly are thread moments to cherish. This weeks birthday is particularly poignant as it is my first birthday since the weekend. I'll not lie, Monday was tough.

Thanks again.

 

[m00ps]

I don't have the percentage in front of me right now, but it wasn't much. And it didn't call for any whiskey/peated malt. Just the "regular" one. The one that has bacon in its description.

Well depending on how fresh and what type of wood they do for smoked malt, to me it has a noticeable presence after like 15% or so. Noticeable in that its definitely in the forefront of the flavor.

That threshold for peat malt lies somewhere between 0.1 and 0.9%. If your beer tasted like straight up smoke peaty ashtray Id venture to guess they mixed them up

 

[BeerMeDuffMan]

Well depending on how fresh and what type of wood they do

that's why she said