What are you drinking now?

[Rish]

Cider made for my son's wedding, bottled 09/25/21. A hit at the wedding. It's a quite different cider now but it has aged well. 7.2%.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Weekend begins now.

HB Helles. Going to get another kit. Absolutely love this beer.

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[TheDudeLebowski]

Mast Landing

 

[Rish]

Doesn't mean we're not eager to see another, though!

Back home so here you go!

 

[Knightshade]

Back home from PHX trip. It's a balmy 55 here in Mpls, so stepped out back for a HB blonde ale.
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Hmmm…interesting. I was in Phoenix this week as well. Work conference, be odd if we were both at same?

 

[Knightshade]

No mo bubbly, day 8.

Pizza Port “ Endless Shoreline” IPA. Last one in the fridge. Had a Harland Brewing Japanese lager earlier. Quality rep, just wasn’t feeling it tho.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Yum yum. Doing a Brown this weekend.

 

[camonick]

Yum yum. Doing a Brown this weekend.

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I just poured a very early sampling of my newest brown ale.
Still murky but delicious.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I just poured a very early sampling of my newest brown ale.
Still murky but delicious.
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I'm looking at. Cigar City Maduro clone.

 

[MaxStout]

Hmmm…interesting. I was in Phoenix this week as well. Work conference, be odd if we were both at same?

If you were in PHX Terminal 3 around noonish, we probably walked past one another. I had lunch then caught my flight home just after 1.

 

[camonick]

I'm looking at. Cigar City Maduro clone.

Mine is a Big Sky Moose Drool clone

 

[camonick]

Washing down a good homemade Mexican dinner with a HB Vienna lager

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Found this at Total Wine while looking for Maduro...N/A I might add. Not too desserty.

 

[Knightshade]

Well I dropped a few pounds so it's back to beer fun! Today I decided to flush out the available Japanese beer scene, at least those available to us thirsty lager drinkers in SoCal. I'll be reporting back to you this week..... So much of our choices are really based on distribution – he who has the distributors sells the beer!

I’ve had Kirin Ichiban here before, and their mysterious “First Press 100% Malt”. Sounds drinkable to me. So what the heck do they do with the “second pressing!” What is this olive oil?

I like the 100% malt though. So much of the BMC-type beers out there have corn, rice, corn syrup and other sugary stuff in wort to boost the booze and lower the price (and flavor!) 100% malt is more along the lines we might see with a Reinheitsgebot compliant German Lager.

Kirin Ichiban is a 5-percenter, delicious and clean. Just the right amount of alcohol to slake the thirst of your typical Salaryman! After work I’m sure there are tanker-trucks of this drank all throughout Japan. Thanks to that distribution, it's here in California and elsewhere too. Heck you can even get this after gassing up your car with your nacho chips and gas-station sushi! Kanpai! 乾杯

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Kirin Ichiban is my goto light beer. Those I drink beer with the most have this infatuation with Miller Lite which I absolutely will not be wrapped into, but through them I surmised and confirmed that I’m just not a Pilsner fan.

Both Kirin and Sapporo have pretty interesting origin stories, with the prior more or less being a German style beer, just brewed in Japan.

Revisited the Sapporo Black pretty recently…was surprised? how enjoyable it was.

 

[Knightshade]

Found this at Total Wine while looking for Maduro...N/A I might add. Not too desserty.

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FW is putting their barrel aged stuff in cans now???????

 

[Knightshade]

Last IPA in the variety pack.

 

[Knightshade]

If you were in PHX Terminal 3 around noonish, we probably walked past one another. I had lunch then caught my flight home just after 1.

I left early on last day of the conference, so left on Thursday. Flew the cattle call airline, but got to airport early enough to walk terminals A-D multiple times.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

FW is putting their barrel aged stuff in cans now???????

First time I've seen it here in Austin. The 12oz bottles have been the standard in the past.

 

[Miraculix]

Well I dropped a few pounds so it's back to beer fun! Today I decided to flush out the available Japanese beer scene, at least those available to us thirsty lager drinkers in SoCal. I'll be reporting back to you this week..... So much of our choices are really based on distribution – he who has the distributors sells the beer!

I’ve had Kirin Ichiban here before, and their mysterious “First Press 100% Malt”. Sounds drinkable to me. So what the heck do they do with the “second pressing!” What is this olive oil?

I like the 100% malt though. So much of the BMC-type beers out there have corn, rice, corn syrup and other sugary stuff in wort to boost the booze and lower the price (and flavor!) 100% malt is more along the lines we might see with a Reinheitsgebot compliant German Lager.

Kirin Ichiban is a 5-percenter, delicious and clean. Just the right amount of alcohol to slake the thirst of your typical Salaryman! After work I’m sure there are tanker-trucks of this drank all throughout Japan. Thanks to that distribution, it's here in California and elsewhere too. Heck you can even get this after gassing up your car with your nacho chips and gas-station sushi! Kanpai! 乾杯

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Wow, didn't know saporo had a black one! I'd love to try that! I really like their regular beer. And obviously also Kirin. Japan really knows how to brew.

 

[camonick]

HB raspberry hard lemonade
This stuff is dangerously delicious

 

[leedspointbrew]

Best for perusing HBT in the morning.

 

[leedspointbrew]

I've got a stinking cold- perfect timing as my wife is out of town and I've got the kids for most of the weekend.

So right now, a Hot Toddy minus the whisk(e)y, though I expect that once the sun is sufficiently past the yard arm and the girls are over with their grandparents for the afternoon I will migrate onto my "illness drink of choice", a hot variation on the venerable Zombie:

50ml Planteray OFTD rum
30ml pineapple juice
15ml lime juice
15ml homemade fassionola
10ml cinnamon syrup
8 dashes angostura bitters
3 dashes absinthe
3 dashes grapefruit bitters
Top with boiled water

Usually finished with a hollowed out lime filled with demerera sugar and overproof rum and set on fire.

Impressive

 

[Miraculix]

 

[Remmy]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Brunch beer SA Oktoberfest

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

9.5% Nomura fresh on tap

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Beautiful Pilsner

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

And finally a gin and tonic at a local distillery.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Lots of work the past couple days, playing catch up now. Happy Sunday y'all.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

A really good doublebock and a Jellyfish. Visiting with Nebraska cousins that meant the world to me as a kid. Haven't seen them in 20yrs. Back to the Nomura...