Very small sample of Hefe bottling leftovers. Banana and clove coming through as it should, I hope judges will agree.
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Very small sample of Hefe bottling leftovers. Banana and clove coming through as it should, I hope judges will agree.
A couple pints of ordinary bitter while I have another session of futzing around with my new phone’s camera settings. It seems to have a helluva time with the window screen in the background and it's been driving me nuts for months now. I should be chill about this. It really doesn't matter, but it's getting under my skin because it's clearly user error and I'm used to solving problems.
I don't know, it looks pretty delicious to me!!
Very kind of you. Thank you.
I get that too, sometimes. The beer will be fuzzy and the screen in perfect focus. I seem to get better luck if I scoot the zoom up to maybe 1.8 - 2.0 or so and stand back a little.
That's a really good idea, this thing has a phenomenal zoom. Appreciate it, sir.
In fact, I used that zoom to get a great picture of a deer taking a dump in the woods this morning.
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Made mini pizzas in cast iron pans on the Weber. Pepp for me, cheese for Mrs. Stout.
Now out back with some HM Mott's hard cider.
Now out back with some HM Mott's hard cider.
I think everyone who is into hoppy ales need to take a walk down the historic past of IPA’s going back to Jolly Ole England. Back in the day, crafty brewers stuffed kegs with bacteria-inhibiting hops so that the beer would make it unscathed during the long ocean voyage to India without souring…. (hey, those sours are pretty popular these days…!)
This Samuel Smith India Ale (hmmm what happened to the “P”? !!!) is an authentic and great rendition of what was sent out on the water back in the day. Taj Mahal on the label, and coming in at 5% ABV, Samuel Smith’s India Ale is open-fermented in Yorkshire squares at the old Tadcaster Brewery. Chew on that one for a bit. Here in Merica we are doing somersaults trying to reduce Oxygen ingress from every nook, cranny, transfer and fermentation vessel and purging our kegs with CO2 to boot. These English guys turn around and ferment a hoppy ale in an open fermenter. It won Gold medal in 1896! Go figure!
This is a delicious ale, it has the slight fruitiness that I come to expect from some of their work. I drank a big mixed box of Samuel Smith beers last year, and a number of them also had the same background fruitiness, sort of a residual sweetness. After looking at British teeth, that might explain a few things. That’s a joke.
Not nearly as hoppy as a West Coast IPA, it is still hoppy and delicious. I say buy what you can find, this is a great and historic brew! Cheers!
This Samuel Smith India Ale (hmmm what happened to the “P”? !!!) is an authentic and great rendition of what was sent out on the water back in the day. Taj Mahal on the label, and coming in at 5% ABV, Samuel Smith’s India Ale is open-fermented in Yorkshire squares at the old Tadcaster Brewery. Chew on that one for a bit. Here in Merica we are doing somersaults trying to reduce Oxygen ingress from every nook, cranny, transfer and fermentation vessel and purging our kegs with CO2 to boot. These English guys turn around and ferment a hoppy ale in an open fermenter. It won Gold medal in 1896! Go figure!
This is a delicious ale, it has the slight fruitiness that I come to expect from some of their work. I drank a big mixed box of Samuel Smith beers last year, and a number of them also had the same background fruitiness, sort of a residual sweetness. After looking at British teeth, that might explain a few things. That’s a joke.
Not nearly as hoppy as a West Coast IPA, it is still hoppy and delicious. I say buy what you can find, this is a great and historic brew! Cheers!
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orionol73
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Cyser bottled November 2020. Pretty good.
Not tart at all.
If it doesn't have you reaching for the Arm and Hammer, that ain't rhubarb. I write that as a guy that never gets heartburn.
orionol73
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I’ve baked many strawberry rhubarb pies during my life and several of them made people pucker up! LOL!
A half glass of my latest pale ale.
Iced tea with just a little sugar in it. (I am drinking it out of a dimpled beer mug 
) I drink so much beer, I sometimes forget that I like tea and the tea has a lot less calories.
) I drink so much beer, I sometimes forget that I like tea and the tea has a lot less calories.
I love this trippel. One of my favorites...
Well... Today I am having (just to start) Assorty Mead: Force carbonated 3 gallons consisting of sweet pineapple mead, dry Traditional, dry Plum & Cinnamon, semi dry Ginger & Lemon. Aged for 1 year. Very nice to drink while it's cold... Not too much left in the glass...
HB Sticke Altbier.
Yea a package was delivered from @orionol73 and chilling at the fridge at home but heat has decided to take a break. Not the humidity
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HM cider bottled September 2021. Pretty good.
Now for dessert. We just don't get New Glarus around here. Thanks for the bomb @orionol73
Snacking on a Raspberry Tart and Artisan Strawberry Incipient
Snacking on a Raspberry Tart and Artisan Strawberry Incipient
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HB Lager
Any time I see the words “Lager” and “Beer” in the same sentence, I get excited! Last week when I saw those two words together on a Samuel Smith label I got REALLY EXCITED!!! Wow, a historic UK brewer of fine ales crossing the tracks and brewing a Lager… I am impressed!
Well the label doesn’t say anything about Yorkshire Squares, so I’m guessing to make this one happen, there “might” be a closed fermentation tank. Maybe not. Pilsner Urquell, the Austrian Trumer and the former Anchor Brewery in San Francisco all have (or had) open fermentation. I wonder if the fellas at Samuel Smith are going down that road? Dunno.
One thing I do know is this is a fine beer. Now I have to say, even though this is definitely a Lager, it has a lot of Ale characteristics, notably some esters poking through and a mouthfeel not usually experienced on most Lagers. At 5.0% ABV, the hopping is about 20 IBU or so I’d guess, not hoppy really, just a good balanced presentation.
The one thing that does crack me up is the “Organic” malt and “Organic” hops used. Hey, aren’t all living things “Organic” when you get right down to it. Heck, “I’m Organic”!!! Anytime I see the word “Organic” my lights, bells and whistles go off!! I had a friend of mine that used to pick up vegetables down in Mexico. They’d blade off one area and pile up some veggies off to the side marked “Organic”. The other was the regular production. Well, it was the same veggies, just being sold as “Organic”…. Suckers!
So anytime I see “Organic,” my general feeling is it is “feel-good” sort of rhetoric – whether real or not is anyone’s guess. The food supply chains are full of trickery, so if it makes you feel good by spending 20-50% more for organic, I have a three-tier brewery to sell ya! Cheers!... hmmmmm Lager….. Prost!
Well the label doesn’t say anything about Yorkshire Squares, so I’m guessing to make this one happen, there “might” be a closed fermentation tank. Maybe not. Pilsner Urquell, the Austrian Trumer and the former Anchor Brewery in San Francisco all have (or had) open fermentation. I wonder if the fellas at Samuel Smith are going down that road? Dunno.
One thing I do know is this is a fine beer. Now I have to say, even though this is definitely a Lager, it has a lot of Ale characteristics, notably some esters poking through and a mouthfeel not usually experienced on most Lagers. At 5.0% ABV, the hopping is about 20 IBU or so I’d guess, not hoppy really, just a good balanced presentation.
The one thing that does crack me up is the “Organic” malt and “Organic” hops used. Hey, aren’t all living things “Organic” when you get right down to it. Heck, “I’m Organic”!!! Anytime I see the word “Organic” my lights, bells and whistles go off!! I had a friend of mine that used to pick up vegetables down in Mexico. They’d blade off one area and pile up some veggies off to the side marked “Organic”. The other was the regular production. Well, it was the same veggies, just being sold as “Organic”…. Suckers!
So anytime I see “Organic,” my general feeling is it is “feel-good” sort of rhetoric – whether real or not is anyone’s guess. The food supply chains are full of trickery, so if it makes you feel good by spending 20-50% more for organic, I have a three-tier brewery to sell ya! Cheers!... hmmmmm Lager….. Prost!
HB Pilsner
Very tasty dunkel
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