What are you drinking now?

[ThirstyPawsHB]

^Rated "world class" with a 98 on BA^
Love to see another of the many Massachusetts breweries noted here.
We're not just Treehouse after all - though tbh they totally crush the New England IPA ratings on BA

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/top-styles/189/

Cheers!

IMHO, Other Half - All Citra Everything, is one of the best top 2 or 3. Although that Equilibrium/Parish I just had was up there too. Unfortunately, we don't get any Treehouse here in Central Texas. I wrote them to put their beers on Tavour but I guess they don't give a $hit about the rest of the country.

Anyway, wife bought some liquor...

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

You know there is HBT

We even have quads and RIS up here

What we don't get up here is free range prong horn elk sausage

 

[pshankstar]

Last night’s beer. I believe it was from @jerbrew In a past FotD. I needed to wait for the colder months to arrive for this one. Woke up to frost on the ground this morning.

 

[HM-2]

HB Brut IPA.

I've been really happy with this one. Could do with maybe the smallest touch less bitterness but otherwise it's great.

 

[Beermeister32]

Alright all you craft beer and HB snobs – Yes, there was a time when if you wanted to get loaded up big time, you went down to the left end of the beer case and bought the heaviest stuff on the shelf.

Olde English 800 has been around quite a while, and filled that role many times. There were others, Colt 45, Mickeys, whichever lit your fire. Really I didn’t know what malt liquor was. I knew it was vaguely related to beer and it served up a big boozy wallop back in high school in the 70's, but that’s about it. "Olde English, "800" it is the Power!" That jingle still bounces around in my head.

So how does Olde English 800 stack up against current standards?

For one thing, this is a heavyweight – 7.5% ABV, but I think we can retire the “Malt Liquor" moniker. These are basically just heavy lagers as I see it, not English ales. In fact, as a lager, maybe “Alt Deutsch” might be better, (nah, few Murcans would figure THAT out for cryin’ out loud!)

Not really too different from an Export, Dortmunder or one of those Bocks I drank a couple pages back, except for the Corn Syrup. Ingredients are Water, Barley Malt, Corn Syrup (maltose and Dextrose), yeast and hop extract. Funny, the can says they never use high fructose corn syrup! Ha ha, BIG DIFF!

More hilarity – says this beer has 85 calories. He he… but 4.75 servings! Beer Pig!

Well, if I was blindfolded, I’d call it a Bock. This beer has a nice head, terrific lacing, and if you can somehow abandon the pre-conceived notions that this is some Wino or Hobo beer, I think you could get into it. Much better than you might think…. Burp! Enjoy!

 

[Beermeister32]

 

[MaxStout]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

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I haven't seen that around here in many years. It was a staple for a long time.

Working on a pH/water chemistry game plan for the Helles tomorrow or Tuesday.

 

[Rish]

HM ginger beer

 

[camonick]

Summer sausage successfully smoked yesterday and vacuum sealed and frozen today.
Fresh haircut and relaxing with HB hazy pale ale.
(The lighting sucks in my basement mancave)

 

[Rish]

Another IPA I decided to try. Nice medium body, some citrus and not too much bitterness, 6%. I would drink this again.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Someone's having a worse week than me. Drove by him on the ride home. Face down on the side of the road. Pretty sure he was tagged by a car. Right eye looked a little messed up. Turned around and got him on his way. No petting.

OT

 

[jwill911]

Drinking a Maui Brewing Big Wave IPA. Just got back from Hawaii did their brewery tour. Great place, huge tap list, great beers.

 

[Section1]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

HB Mead for the Vikings game

 

[Rish]

Having Italian sausage sandwiches for supper so how about a HM limocello aperitif.

 

[pshankstar]

Banana bread batch one in the oven. I’ll probably have more as batch two will go in the oven in about 45 minutes.

 

[orionol73]

Hb 13.3% RIS from a number of years ago. Good beer, too much roast and really should tweak and brew more iterations, but at 5+ years now it has decades of life. Bell’s Expedition was the inspiration

 

[orionol73]

 

[TwistedGray]

Brown water

 

[orionol73]

Someone else is watching football
Shouldn’t have opened this after bourbon but f*c* yes Lions!!!

 

[BongoYodeler]

Sample glass of my latest HB Pale Ale. Just kegged four days ago, dry hopped with Strata and Idaho7. I plan on serving it at a local beer festival this coming weekend.

 

[pshankstar]

The banana bread is done. Two with chocolate chips and two with blueberries. Oh and some whiz.

 

[RumOnTheDocks]

Some things from yesterday, started off with a IPA from a local craft brewery. Not too bitter, had a nice tropical fruit aroma.

Finished the evening with some of the plum mead that I've made in 2022. It aged and cleared nicely.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Hb 13.3% RIS from a number of years ago. Good beer, too much roast and really should tweak and brew more iterations, but at 5+ years now it has decades of life. Bell’s Expedition was the inspiration

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If I may chime in uninvited. Years ago I learned to add the dark grains about 40min into the mash. This significantly reduced the undesirable heavy roast and/or tannis. They're much smoother now...well, when I brew them.

Too early for a really good beer? I think not!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Second tankard of coffee, like it’s my birfday or something.

 

[MaxStout]

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Second tankard of coffee, like it’s my birfday or something.

Happy Birfday!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Happy Birfday!

Thanks!

 

[MaxStout]

Stopped at Stone Brewing for lunch at the airport before our flight home.

Pulled pork sammich and some tangerine hazy.

 

[orionol73]