Finishing up Finals creation for this semester. It requires some liquid. The glass shows the difference between an American and an Imperial pint, lol.
What are you drinking now?
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Tonight I left a little early, therefore no beer drinking, however I have something better! A big box on my doorstep - with a don’t open until December 1 label from my three WELL-TRAINED daughters! Last year this time an identical box arrived - a Beer Advent Calendar!!!!
So it looks like December 1 through 25 beer tastings are in the queue! Excellent! Stay tuned!
So it looks like December 1 through 25 beer tastings are in the queue! Excellent! Stay tuned!
TwistedGray
El Jefe Brewing Company
Christmas movie season, 70° days, and home brews
Is this a late night snack or breakfast??
"Medicine Man" IPA at Big Smoke Brew Co., in Heathrow Terminal 2. Actually rather good.
I might follow up with a Fuller's ESB from upstairs.
I might follow up with a Fuller's ESB from upstairs.
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my citra hopped lager that i kegged oct 25th. definitely the clearest homebrew i have made so far. no finings just time
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"Bjorn to be Juicy". Got the grape/sharp edges described on Untapped. Always nice to brew what was intended.
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Fizzy yellow liquid .... again... 
Very tasty O'fest after working on packing up some of my 12BOC23 beers.
HB Scottish ale
Kicking back at home with a Duvel after a day at Forgotten Star Brewing. Did a pro/am where we brewed 15 bbl of a Grodziskie of my recipe. I'll post later in the pro/am thread I had started and give more deets, and pics.
My first taste of pro brewing. A lot of work, but had a great time!
My first taste of pro brewing. A lot of work, but had a great time!
Digging through my beer refrigerators (yes, plural) I found this lone can of Carlsberg Premium Elephant Pilsner. Great opportunity to give it a drink and review!
Carlsberg in Denmark has been at it since the early 1800’s, in fact owner J.C. Jacobsen isolated the first individual lager yeast strain at Carlsberg’s state of the art 1800’s laboratory in 1884 and made them available to other brewers. The first lager yeast, known as Carlsberg Yeast #1 was known as Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis for years before the pointy headed intellectuals took it from Carlsberg, renaming it Saccharomyces Pastorianus in favor of Louis Pasteur. Can’t anybody get some credit here? Geez. Right on Jacobsen!
Well the Elephant is an Elephant indeed, a BIG Pilsner, we might even call this a double Pilsner, it clocks in at 7.2% ABV. The big malt bill has some residual caramel and sweet notes I’m picking up. My preference is Bavarian Pilsners that are a bit drier and around 5% ABV, so this is one you slug down for serious drinking. 500 ml cans are what the Doctor ordered!
Overall a good heavy Pilsner. A big dude, but some of you are looking for that for sure. Skål !!!
Carlsberg in Denmark has been at it since the early 1800’s, in fact owner J.C. Jacobsen isolated the first individual lager yeast strain at Carlsberg’s state of the art 1800’s laboratory in 1884 and made them available to other brewers. The first lager yeast, known as Carlsberg Yeast #1 was known as Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis for years before the pointy headed intellectuals took it from Carlsberg, renaming it Saccharomyces Pastorianus in favor of Louis Pasteur. Can’t anybody get some credit here? Geez. Right on Jacobsen!
Well the Elephant is an Elephant indeed, a BIG Pilsner, we might even call this a double Pilsner, it clocks in at 7.2% ABV. The big malt bill has some residual caramel and sweet notes I’m picking up. My preference is Bavarian Pilsners that are a bit drier and around 5% ABV, so this is one you slug down for serious drinking. 500 ml cans are what the Doctor ordered!
Overall a good heavy Pilsner. A big dude, but some of you are looking for that for sure. Skål !!!
Mexican dinner date night w/lime...for flavor
Wheat beers are supposed to be fizzy, right? Maybe not quite this level of carb. Taking a sip out of the can produces a mouthful of foam.
I haven't had that in a long, long time, not since the 1980s. But I remember it fondly. Funny, I was talking with a couple brewers today and one of them remarked how there weren't many high-ABV lagers, aside from Doppelbocks, Baltic Porters, etc. And I mentioned that I couldn't think of a single pale lager that's up there in ABV. Never thought about Elephant.
I need to pick up some again.
Okay find at a local hippie grocery store, think it's a bit old.
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A half pint of my Five Points Best
clone yesterday evening.
TwistedGray
El Jefe Brewing Company
Hibiscus Raspberry Cider and some pinball magic
PA mashing. Columbus/Cascade and hop oil.
Nice Parish colab...
Nice Parish colab...
On sale for $8/4pk at the Hippie Dippie store. A not awful beer from Vermont but a bit thin.
Off topic, took me 8 tries to get this picture. For the last couple weeks phone would reset when watching videos or trying to take a picture periodically. Been a challenge. Took the cover off and it's completely broke exposing the internals. Guess it's time for a new one...
. "BackMarket.com" here we come!
Off topic, took me 8 tries to get this picture. For the last couple weeks phone would reset when watching videos or trying to take a picture periodically. Been a challenge. Took the cover off and it's completely broke exposing the internals. Guess it's time for a new one...
. "BackMarket.com" here we come!
Please tell me that's your home!
HB best bitter.
Also, a HB Best Bitter.
Nice dunkel.
HB Dubbel in appropriate glassware
Paperback Brewing, Glendale, California released this Freak-Zoid of a beer can for all beer heathens out there I think. I suspect there is a place in Beer Hell for all drinkers of something called “Bunny with a Chainsaw,” their version of a Double Dry hopped 8.2% ABV Hazy IPA. I’m really walking tenderly here….
There’s a lot to unpack regarding this brew. I guess the can is one heck of a sales tool for sure, ABV is a bit high for me, I enjoy IPA’s in the 6-7% range more typically. This beer is another victim of the “Haze Craze” – personally I prefer a crystal clear West Coast interpretation.
Virtually no head, zero lacing, medium carbonation. Plenty of yeasty murk and crud floating around too – having personally brewed a bunch, I sort of view Haze and floaters as a sped-up, unfinished batch. I go back to when chill haze was a flaw, and floating chunks were for Sangia, not beer! Call me a traditionalist, make ‘em clear, delicious and beautiful I say!
Tastes OK….
There’s a lot to unpack regarding this brew. I guess the can is one heck of a sales tool for sure, ABV is a bit high for me, I enjoy IPA’s in the 6-7% range more typically. This beer is another victim of the “Haze Craze” – personally I prefer a crystal clear West Coast interpretation.
Virtually no head, zero lacing, medium carbonation. Plenty of yeasty murk and crud floating around too – having personally brewed a bunch, I sort of view Haze and floaters as a sped-up, unfinished batch. I go back to when chill haze was a flaw, and floating chunks were for Sangia, not beer! Call me a traditionalist, make ‘em clear, delicious and beautiful I say!
Tastes OK….
HB Bullwinkle Brown while waiting for the grill to heat up.
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