What are you drinking now?

[TheDudeLebowski]

Nice summer night. Dropped by Dirigible Brewing as they were having a fund raiser for NEFF. Spruce tip ale. Not bad

 

[duncan.brown]

Finished the yeast dump on the fermenter. Now enjoying the same recipe but with two weeks of conditioning and three months of lagering. There is hope, murky pilsner!

 

[Deric]

HB Metric Pils …

 

[camonick]

HB Pilsner in frosty glass.
Exhausted tonight. Apparently I contracted West Nile virus within the last week and it’s taking a toll. This is our wheat harvest season which is one of my busiest times at work, so no rest for the weary.

 

[grampamark]

Batching tonight. My wife went to the zoo with our daughter and her boys for a “kids fun day” program. My grandson went to look at a small SUV. He’s thinking something a little more economical than his 18 yo, 250K mile F-150 might be worth considering. HB Amber Ale with some grilled chicken and a salad.

 

[Deric]

HB Cold IPA …

 

[TwistedGray]

A few of these. A other weekend and we'll be done.

 

[TwistedGray]

HB hibiscus saison

 

[camonick]

A few of these. A other weekend and we'll be done.

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You and @ThirstyPawsHB should share notes.

 

[DoctorDuvel]

HB helles or kolsch (fermented with Wyeast CA lager) - a hellosch? A hair darker than designed due to about half Belgian pale ale malt (shop was out of German) but wonderfully bready and light. And then an old, soon-to-be-extinct favorite.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Cold brew break. Tropical af

 

[AlexKay]

HB near-IPA (1.5% ABV) with Vista:

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

HB near-IPA (1.5% ABV) with Vista:
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What does near IPA taste like?

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

 

[Rish]

Tasty lager from America's oldest brewery in celebration of the arrival last night of our youngest grandson. I'll have a brew buddy before I know it!

 

[T Murph]

Again I'm having a pint of Goat Islands Richter Pilsner while they fill a sixtel for me. This is by far the best craft brewed

Preprohibition Pilsner I have ever had by a craft brewery. Picking up a sixtel for a big family pool party on Saturday.

 

[T Murph]

Tasty lager from America's oldest brewery in celebration of the arrival last night of our new grandson. I'll have a brew buddy before I know it!
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Congratulations

 

[BongoYodeler]

Congratulations Rish!!! He's beautiful!!

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Tasty lager from America's oldest brewery in celebration of the arrival last night of our new grandson. I'll have a brew buddy before I know it!
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Congrats, grandpa!

 

[BongoYodeler]

Enjoying a HB Scottish Ale after cleaning up from a brew day.

 

[grampamark]

Congrats, GrampaRish!

Back at the farm for a week, or so. HB Mosaic Blonde.

 

[AlexKay]

What does near IPA taste like?

Really good! I'm still dialing this in. I used a lot of grain for flavor, but cold-steeped it to avoid starch extraction, and then I added (completely unfermentable) inulin for body. The major thing still lacking was hops; this was my first time using Vista and I found that to me it's a "meh" varietal. Next batch will be BRU-1/Harlequin/Vic Secret.

Not gonna lie, ethanol has a sensory impact, and when I drink this, I miss it. But on the other hand, I had three of these before dinner and didn't feel it and didn't blow my diet.

 

[hopfenstopfen]

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I could be the only other person on HBT that knows that brewery!

 

[hopfenstopfen]

Always wanted to be a master of karate. This is just ok

 

[skleice]

Tasty lager from America's oldest brewery in celebration of the arrival last night of our new grandson. I'll have a brew buddy before I know it!
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Congrats, Pops! Enjoy spoiling your new brewing partner!

 

[Rish]

West Nile virus

Hope you have a light case and speedy recovery!

 

[Rish]

Thanks y'all for the congrats!
HB smoked porter

 

[hopfenstopfen]

Love this series.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Must have willed this into existence with all the talk about Dinner. Cellar is getting a little warm. Moving the Ferm chamber around I discovered a couple of these hiding inside. I'm guessing since xmas. Past prime but still good

 

[Beermeister32]

I really enjoy a lot of the clean quality German lagers available through BevMo and Total Wine and More and other bottle shops. Fantastic that I can drive from my Southern California office and pick up a sixer of Munich lager. 10 minutes later I’m in beer drinkers’ ecstasy. Unreal!

Now here’s the rub – Fella’s what’s with these pathetic, tiny, dinky, wimpy, 11.2 ounce beers? C’mon, US beer drinkers shucking out to buy your beer are BEER DRINKERS!!!! BIG BEER DRINKERS! Learn your market! Let’s ship them 16.9 ounce cans, Pronto!! I mean Schnell!

Give me a BIG CAN. We drink big, you wanna sell big… Ship BIG! We’ll buy them. Plus those cans do one heck of a better job protecting beer than these pathetic little baby bottles we are being sent. What, do you hate us? Ship it in. Let’s get it on!

By the way, this is one fantastic Dunkel. I enjoyed a few 1L MaßKrugs with my daughters and family when we visited the Hofbrauhaus in Las Vegas this year. Great time! Great beer! Prost!