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[Joe13]

The head on that wee-heavy is amazing.

Yea, it is my favorite one, hands-down. I made it with a small amount of single-malt scotch for flavor instead of the butterscotch schnapps they suggested. all of these were also carbed with regular, white granulated table sugar. I plan to get some dextrose bottle tabs for my next batch to see how it affects the head, flavor and lacing.

 

[TalkingGoats]

Here are shots of my last four brews. All Mr Beer recipes, fermented 3 weeks, bottle conditioned warm for 2, and refrigerated for a minimum of 2 weeks.

Angry Ox ale

WOW I want a set of glasses like that....

 

[Joe13]

WOW I want a set of glasses like that....

http://rbes.net/e/smuttynose/scan/s...sp=itemlist.portsmouth/tf=sortorder/to=f/co=1

Portsmouth Brewery 20th Anniversary Pilsner Glass

It is from a local brewery. I may or may have not 'liberated' mine from the restaurant when it took over two hours to seat our group AND they sat two other same size groups before us who had arrived after us.

 

[drives_a_bike]

I don't stir my primer...I rack the beer on top of it and have never had an issue...how did your buddy do it?

He said he just poured in the primer and racked on top of it...It's been 2 months since then and were still running in to a lot that aren't carbed very much. only a sixer left though and we've drank each and every one.

I've stirred all of mine and never had an issue

 

[onipar]

Wow, all delicious looking beers! I've posted this pic before, but this is my first brew (from this time last year). It was a Belgian White. Far from the best beer I've brewed, but certainly not a disappointment I think I may still even have a couple bottles somewhere in the conditioning closet:



This is the same beer, but weeks later. You can see it cleared a lot, which I wasn't expecting seeing as how it was a Belgian White.

 

[tre9er]

Yea, it is my favorite one, hands-down. I made it with a small amount of single-malt scotch for flavor instead of the butterscotch schnapps they suggested. all of these were also carbed with regular, white granulated table sugar. I plan to get some dextrose bottle tabs for my next batch to see how it affects the head, flavor and lacing.

I carb with table sugar all the time. I can run two blocks to the corner store and get it whereas corn sugar is 5 miles away.

 

[Blackmuse]

Yep waaaay too dark, it's a lovely golden colour albeit dark gold. It's an extract with carahell 25ebc (crystal malt) for colour & flavour and saaz hops for aroma. As I said an attempt at a pils, didn't turn out that way but what I got was a fantastic smooth, yellow fizzy beer with a fine saaz aroma and a real light creamy head (go figure). All in all a great mistake that turned into my new house session beer . Neighbour called with a present for my son, had a beer & asked what it was, where I got it and when I told him it was my own his reply "Jaysus I could drink that all night".

Right on man! Gotta love those "attempts" that "miss" the style but turn out amazing! lol - I think my best beer to date was one of those!

I need to try Saaz hops sometime.

 

[jdauria]

Not my first brew, but first lager on bottling day. Was pumped on how clear it was. It's a Munich Helles.

 

[IXVolt]

^-- well done. That cleared up nicely.

 

[aerod1]

Here is my Oktoberfest from 2010, in a frosted mug.

 

[neosapien]

from my first ever batch. an amber recipe of my own devising. came out a lot more clear than i expected and had nice head retention.

 

[KevinW]

It is awesome to see so many fellow brewers showing their pride over the great (sometimes not so great) beers that are being made! No talk of extract over all grain or not being true to style, just brewers showing off their efforts and enthusiasm!

 

[RCBIV]

My Motueka Pale Ale. It's probably more of an IPA, but whatever! It's my first all-grain brew.

 

[mojo2008]

Here's my 9th batch.

I call it a wheat pilsener, but I'm certain that's not accurate. I was at the mercy of my LHBS with ingredients and it morphed from a pilsener recipe to what you see here. Just cracked it open after three weeks of bottle conditioning. Still seems a little green with very slight bubble gum hints...hopefully that clears up in a few weeks.

Feels very carbonated on my lips, but I couldn't get a head to develop.

Andy

 

[flushdrew42]

my read the newspaper through it blonde...