The stupidest comment on your beer

[bottlebomber]

Hardly, son. Add up what I've paid in taxes over a 40 year career and most people would piss their pjs.

But reality is reality, no getting 'round it...

Cheers!

Sweet, I'm going to quit my job. It sounds like you can support both of us

 

[day_trippr]

Sweet, I'm going to quit my job. It sounds like you can support both of us

By all means, get on the bus and enjoy the ride!
Don't mind the other 2.3 families, they've been on board for decades. They're basically harmless...

Cheers!

 

[Husher]

I love avoiding taxes by homebrewing. Tax on booze in Canada is ridiculous.

Preach on brother.

 

[Tiber_Brew]

Taxes in Canada are ridiculous.

Fixed that for you.

 

[jimmarshall]

I was told my beer taste like sushi.... by my pregnant sister-in-law

everyone else loved it

I would nearly kill for beer that tastes like good sushi.

 

[brplatz]

I would nearly kill for beer that tastes like good sushi.

Leave.


Just kidding but that's weird.

 

[jimmarshall]

Leave.

Just kidding but that's weird.

Hey, I love good beer, I love good sushi.... Two birds.

 

[jimmarshall]

10.9% and 133 IBUs lol

I have a recipe for an all grain triple ipa I can't wait to try once I get into all grain.... >11%, anticipated IBU 387.6

 

[jimmarshall]

5 gallons is impossible. You'd die of alcohol poisoning. 18 beers on the other hand is not that far fetched. I work with a guy that says he drinks 30 cans of bud every Friday and Saturday. When I played in a dart league, I would routinely drink 18 or more. Now that I'm married and have kids, I'm never out long enough to drink more than 10. I have drank a whole TAD bottle in one sitting though which is quite a bit. Maybe I should stop with my drinking stories now.

I think its possible. I drank a LOT of beer while I was in college. I'd bet I came damn close to 5 gallons one St Pattys day.

 

[worksnorth]

I have a recipe for an all grain triple ipa I can't wait to try once I get into all grain.... >11%, anticipated IBU 387.6

Lol that's pretty much out of control! Your mouth would turn into a permanent pucker!
Aren't our taste buds not even able to recognize anything much over 70 IBU's? Thought I read that somewhere

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Lol that's pretty much out of control! Your mouth would turn into a permanent pucker!
Aren't our taste buds not even able to recognize anything much over 70 IBU's? Thought I read that somewhere

I believe its 100IBUs

 

[worksnorth]

I believe its 100IBUs

Alright 100, sounds good to me. So 387 IBU'S is... Geez!!!

 

[jimmarshall]

Alright 100, sounds good to me. So 387 IBU'S is... Geez!!!

I think what you meant to say is that 387 IBUs is "incredibly orgasmic".

 

[malweth]

Alright 100, sounds good to me. So 387 IBU'S is... Geez!!!

Let me FTFY:

So 387 IBUs is a theoretical number you'd never actually reach.


What's a triple IPA at 11% ABV but an American Barleywine anyway? I bet it'll age nicely...

 

[bottlebomber]

Let me FTFY:

So 387 IBUs is a theoretical number you'd never actually reach.

What's a triple IPA at 11% ABV but an American Barleywine anyway? I bet it'll age nicely...

I disagree, because the malt profiles are drastically different. I've brewed a 16% IPA that was well attenuated and still drank just like an IPA should. A Barleywine is malt forward, and IPA is not.

 

[bobbrews]

Barleywines do not have high drinkability as often as IIPAs do. That is another big distinction... how easy the beer drinks. I do think that when you start going for 11-16% IIPAs, you have a completely different beast than the typical 8-9%-er's we're used to. More of what they would call "Strong Ale".

In fact, all of these are different beasts of varying levels of intensity:

Extra IPA - 7.5% ish
Double IPA - 8-9.5%
Imperial IPA - 10-13%
Strong Ale - higher than 13%

 

[user 144271]

HHHMMM tastes like beer.

I guess they thought it would taste like something else?

 

[Evan_L]

I think its possible. I drank a LOT of beer while I was in college. I'd bet I came damn close to 5 gallons one St Pattys day.

 

[Waterboy42]

Double IPA =IIPA.

 

[jimmarshall]

From SWMBOs father...... I dumped a case of Busch Light in your fermenter to make the beer better.

 

[malweth]

Double IPA =IIPA.

Agree. The quotes below seem off to me:

Barleywines do not have high drinkability as often as IIPAs do. That is another big distinction... how easy the beer drinks. I do think that when you start going for 11-16% IIPAs, you have a completely different beast than the typical 8-9%-er's we're used to. More of what they would call "Strong Ale".

In fact, all of these are different beasts of varying levels of intensity:

Extra IPA - 7.5% ish
Double IPA - 8-9.5%
Imperial IPA - 10-13%
Strong Ale - higher than 13%

As mentioned DIPA and IIPA are the same thing (and exist in and below the DIPA range you've given). Extra IPA doesn't really exist IMO. Per BJCP, barleywines are 8-12% (though I personally think that range could be extended past 12% in some cases - especially for American Barleywines).

I disagree, because the malt profiles are drastically different. I've brewed a 16% IPA that was well attenuated and still drank just like an IPA should. A Barleywine is malt forward, and IPA is not.

Well enough, but was it really an IPA? American Barleywine (not British, as you appear to be describing) can range from malty to bitter forward and hoppy. A fresh Bigfoot is a good example of an ABW that's bitter forward.

See http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style19.php#1c

 

[tennesseean_87]

In fact, all of these are different beasts of varying levels of intensity:

Extra IPA - 7.5% ish
Double IPA - 8-9.5%
Imperial IPA - 10-13%
Strong Ale - higher than 13%

As noted, Double IPA=IIPA=Imperial IPA . According to BJCP, Strong Ale includes Old Ale (6%-9%+) and English and American Barleywine (8-12%+).

 

[biohaz7331]

It tastes like beer....No **** I said I made beer it's almost as if they expect something nasty and disgusting.

 

[bottlebomber]

Well enough, but was it really an IPA? American Barleywine (not British, as you appear to be describing) can range from malty to bitter forward and hoppy. A fresh Bigfoot is a good example of an ABW that's bitter forward.

It really was an IPA. The grain bill was 20 lbs 2-row, 8 ounces of C10, a crapload of sugar and a buncha hops. Bigfoot has a bunch of Munich and several pounds of specialty malts for a 5 gallon clone. Just being hop forward does not mean that BBW and my beer have anything in common besides both being hoppy. They certainly aren't the same style. This beer was light (1.00 measured FG) and highly drinkable. I do not consider drinkability to in any way synonymous with Barleywine.

 

[Fizzycist]

Take your OT argument private.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Take your OT argument private.

Excuse me? And you would happen to be....?

 

[Fizzycist]

^ Saw that coming.

I'm the guy enjoying the stupid beer comments, not the guy enjoying the esoteric argument on the vagaries of DIPA vs. IIPA vs. Barley Wine. I think that one is you.

 

[EdMerican]

^This. I agree. Can we get back to bashing the Bud Light crowd for having shytty taste please?

 

[MotorcycleMatt]

^This. I agree. Can we get back to bashing the Bud Light crowd for having shytty taste please?

Really? I enjoy the uninformed comments people make but I won't bash someone for enjoying something I don't.

 

[bottlebomber]

^ Saw that coming.

I'm the guy enjoying the stupid beer comments, not the guy enjoying the esoteric argument on the vagaries of DIPA vs. IIPA vs. Barley Wine. I think that one is you.

I'm sorry if everything isn't exactly as you would like it. There was no arguing taking place, at most there was a disagreement. This thread goes dormant for weeks and months at a time, so if it is that important to you maybe go to the bar and strike up conversations with people about brewing and report back.

My boss tried to talk to me about the Guinness black lager a couple weeks ago, and he said that it tasted "Burnt, because they used those black hops in it". I wasn't in the mood to disagree.