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Harp.
 
Kitchen appliances have been on their last leg. Decided a refresh after twenty years. Decided to get a smaller fridge as it seemed to take over my entire small kitchen. I've been proud of myself cleaning out old IPAs I wasn't fond of out of the fermenter fridge and the kitchen fridge. THEN I dumped a bagful of condiments and just barely fit all the funk/stout beers still behind. I have a lot of work to make room for fresh beer boohoo
Can't wait to try out the new stove over the weekend if work doesn't call

Treehouse anniversary beer and a couple of others
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Got lucky and server had no clue drafted me a long instead of short pour of Vanilla Bean Truth Treehouse stout

Feels like Florida here.

Vanilla Bean Truth is an Imperial Stout aged for 22 months in select wheated bourbon barrels and then conditioned upon heaps of grade A, purposefully selected vanilla beans.

It pours a viscous black color in the glass with a mocha-colored head. When poured cold, the flavor profile leads with chocolate wafer cookies, bourbon-vanilla heat, and rich dark chocolate. As it warms, the true complexity emerges. We taste and smell bourbon chocolate chip cookie dough, bourbon vanilla ice cream, tootsie rolls, and smooth chocolate syrup.

The vanilla addition serves to soften the bourbon and chocolate character of the base beer making the whole presentation more confectionary and decadent like chocolate vanilla syrup.
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Got lucky and server had no clue drafted me a long instead of short pour of Vanilla Bean Truth Treehouse stout

Feels like Florida here.

Vanilla Bean Truth is an Imperial Stout aged for 22 months in select wheated bourbon barrels and then conditioned upon heaps of grade A, purposefully selected vanilla beans.

It pours a viscous black color in the glass with a mocha-colored head. When poured cold, the flavor profile leads with chocolate wafer cookies, bourbon-vanilla heat, and rich dark chocolate. As it warms, the true complexity emerges. We taste and smell bourbon chocolate chip cookie dough, bourbon vanilla ice cream, tootsie rolls, and smooth chocolate syrup.

The vanilla addition serves to soften the bourbon and chocolate character of the base beer making the whole presentation more confectionary and decadent like chocolate vanilla syrup.View attachment 828852
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Was there in early July visiting a good buddy from grad school days. I think we visited the brewery every day of my 3-day trip. He was very cool to indulge me as he’s not a big beer dude. I really enjoyed being there around this time of day, but would have liked the chance to order 1-2 more beers. I totally get their serving limit though for non-beer obsessives.
 
Was there in early July visiting a good buddy from grad school days. I think we visited the brewery every day of my 3-day trip. He was very cool to indulge me as he’s not a big beer dude. I really enjoyed being there around this time of day, but would have liked the chance to order 1-2 more beers. I totally get their serving limit though for non-beer obsessives.


I wanna five finger that giant Julius can on the first tee :) They really did a good job on the clubhouse. Hard to leave and not lounge around. Hopefully the neighborhood around it will build up. We also have byo restaurants around here. Not sure if any are close to tewksbury.

I was just talking with a buddy that's going to visit Charlton for this time this week. I advised him to take the mass pike passed it. Really dangerous crossover from the other direction.

Within an hour news was reporting a passengers in a car and a motorcyclist died close to the entrance. Not sure if alcohol was good involved.
 
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Dinner beer.
I’m flying out to Dallas, TX tomorrow. Does anyone know of any good bottle shops in the downtown Dallas area worth going for some local craft beers? Or any good breweries that also serve food would be a plus. I may be able to convince my coworkers to go out to a brewery one night.
I’ll be there for work next week so I doubt I’ll get to venture out too much.
 
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How are you getting yours that clear? Here is my German Pils that I brewed in March, lagered til the end of June and its been on tap at 35 degees F in my kegerator since June. Almost the exact same glass. I use whirlfloc at the end of the boil and I even have a corny keg with a floating dip tube.

Are you doing some kind of filtration? I’ve taken photos of my beers beside commercial beers and you can definitely see the difference filtration makes. (Low head because I spent way too much time trying to get a decent photo)

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#$(#*%$

I just spent the last two hours writing you a titanic wall of text explaining the Panther Piss project and how I get clear beer in three weeks. While saving, I accidentally hit paste instead of save. Poof!!!!

Gone.

I'll PM you a big wall of text next week.

We'll get you brewing gin-clear lager by November.
 
Spent all Thursday guzzling as much water as I could stand, fasting, and trying to create as much piss as I could for the kidney transplant program. My final score was beyond the 6k ml worth of jugs that they gave me.

That's nearly 14lbs of piss, if you're interested.

Damn right I’m proud!

Anyway…

Panther Piss Wipe Yer Butt after crashing and burning on a huge wall of text that I meant to send to bwible.
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This evening’s slug-in-the-jaw comes in the form of Klosterbrauerei Andechs’ Doppblebock Dunkel. For the uninitiated, that means a Dark Double Bock, in other words a heavy brown lager with lots and lots of booze. A strong and alcoholic Dunkel. Andechs advertises this brew at 7.1% - this reminds me of the de-rated V8 horsepower ratings listed during the Muscle Car horsepower wars of the 1960’s-70’s. I’d say this belly warmer is much higher, more like around 9-10%.

A delicious and malty heavy-hitter, Andechs has been brewing this sort of stress reducing liquid pleasure since 1455 at a Benedictine Monastery just outside of Munich. Color is Mahogany going on Walnut, medium carbonation, 16.9 oz / 500 ml bottle.

I poured this about as violently as you can pour a bottle and still no head. Slight amount of disappearing lacing, this Dunkel is for SERIOUS weekend drinking. Buy the 4-pack, tell me about it in the morning.

Bottle is that same dark brown quality glass that Weihenstephaner uses. Also the same bottle as used on Pliny the Elder, and one of my favorites to re-use for bottling my own homebrew in. Real DARK, no skunkers to be found anywhere. Hey – don’t mention that bottle remark to my wife, she’s already on my case about hoarding and not throwing anything away! Delicious!

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