Lifting one for Mr Walker.
This is too sweet.
This is too sweet.
What are you drinking now?
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I tried that a while back, it was okay but like many American interpretations of Belgian ales way too sweet and chewy.
Imo the only "American Belgian" I've tried and liked are Sierra Nevada's trip in the woods series.
After waking up this morning I realized this was a mistake! 
Been there...wake them up and send those Little $hits to the store!
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An afternoon Sapporo. Might need a second one.
Best with coffee, but if not, plenty of coffee the next morning...
SN Festbier
HB Mexican Cake. Still tasty!
Old Prague knocks it out of the ballpark with this totally old-school, 11-Plato dark lager. This is the way lagers were before the introduction of pale malts in the 1800’s! Your every-day drinkers!
Super easy going down the gullet, Old Prague Traditional Recipe is a super-clean 4.6% ABV dark lager - a lighter tasting lager, not a heavy dark presentation. Close your eyes and it’s not too different from a Golden Lager, just a teeny-weenie bit roastier, and not by much. Really delicious, this could have been a proto-pizza beer if I were blindfolded and transported back to the 1970’s! Great to dump it all in - fill your mouth and both cheeks full of brew!
Neither malt or hop forward, this is a totally balanced dark lager, a great one for drinkers a bit unsure of those “darker beers”. Very easy going down, I should have bought more. What was I thinking? !!!
Super easy going down the gullet, Old Prague Traditional Recipe is a super-clean 4.6% ABV dark lager - a lighter tasting lager, not a heavy dark presentation. Close your eyes and it’s not too different from a Golden Lager, just a teeny-weenie bit roastier, and not by much. Really delicious, this could have been a proto-pizza beer if I were blindfolded and transported back to the 1970’s! Great to dump it all in - fill your mouth and both cheeks full of brew!
Neither malt or hop forward, this is a totally balanced dark lager, a great one for drinkers a bit unsure of those “darker beers”. Very easy going down, I should have bought more. What was I thinking? !!!
This bar use to have a very good rotating tap list. It no longer rotated but as long as it has
Lunch
Fiddlehead
Lunch
Fiddlehead
HB Irish Red Lager
I went back pages and really didn’t find anything either. Always sorry to hear sad news about one of our own.I didn’t realize something had happened to seanjwalker1. That’s terrible news to me.
I don't remember interacting with seanjwalker1 much, but if something has happened here is a Mad Elf in respect (sorry no old fizzywig).
Hottub beers after viewing the grs on Jupiter, a little of orion nebula and a few other gems, some meteors as well, new moon nights are fun, and to warm up after was nice.
Starter is spinning. Not sure how viable this slurry is from a previous batch but hopefully it is good for a brew years day batch. If not I have few packs of dry yeast in reserve.
Until then I found Hopslam back while at the store:
Until then I found Hopslam back while at the store:
Enjoying a HB Pastry Chocolate orange stout while cooking chilli for the New Year party.
Continuing with something interesting. Makgeolli with chestnut.
Makgeolli is a slightly sparkling Korean rice wine. It's slightly viscous and tastes slightly sweet and tangy, the chestnut aroma is very pleasant and also quite prevalent in the aftertaste.
Makgeolli is a slightly sparkling Korean rice wine. It's slightly viscous and tastes slightly sweet and tangy, the chestnut aroma is very pleasant and also quite prevalent in the aftertaste.
Go Big10...
Have to go to a double grandkid birthday party today so have to stay a bit sober.
Have to go to a double grandkid birthday party today so have to stay a bit sober.
Sadly even should they pull this off today they will get no credit for it. The narrative will come out that Bama didn't care or try. If Bama wins, it will be look we beat you and didn't care...
(And I still might be a bit sore after the effort put fourth in the game last month, check in with me tomorrow evening to see how I'm doing)
(And I still might be a bit sore after the effort put fourth in the game last month, check in with me tomorrow evening to see how I'm doing)
Melon ball in questionable glassware, well at least quantity wise.
Finishing one of the last of my HB Garden Hop Ale. This is the 2nd time I've used the hops in our garden that came with the house and it came out great. I'm guessing they're East Kent Goldings. I also have some Cascades going that I planted, which I made a green hop with a few months ago.
For this years EKG batch, I decided at the last minute I didn't want to bottle too much, so I boiled for 2-hours, which gave it a bit of a darker hue. Used Maris Otter and a tiny bit of Roasted Barley. Nottingham yeast. Put the (mostly) dried hops in at 30 minutes and at 5 minutes. 5.7% ABV.
For this years EKG batch, I decided at the last minute I didn't want to bottle too much, so I boiled for 2-hours, which gave it a bit of a darker hue. Used Maris Otter and a tiny bit of Roasted Barley. Nottingham yeast. Put the (mostly) dried hops in at 30 minutes and at 5 minutes. 5.7% ABV.
Nice dunkel
Continuing onward with the Austrian, Czech and Swiss beer tastings, today we have yet another Czech lager, PakaPramen by Nova Paka Brewery, in Nova Paka, Czech Republic.
PakaPramen comes at you lightly, as a 4% ABV beer should. I guess talking Czech lagers, we should be talking degrees Plato, so this would be about a 10% Plato beer. Saaz hops predominate and at 4% ABV, this is an easy drinking lager.
Now onto the packaging – I ‘gotta tell ya, I did pick up a slight amount of skunk on the front end. Not a lot, but some. Maybe a 5% skunker. Tastebuds are funny things – I think they adapt very quickly and then don’t pick up abnormalities to the taste environment – kind of like smoke beers. At first you taste the smoke, then it diminishes quickly as you adapt to it. So it is with skunking, you notice the off-aroma and taste predominantly at first, then it lets up. I’m near the bottom of this stein, and I’m not picking it up at all any more. When I started I did notice it. The main culprit here is the greenish-light brown colored Euro glass.
I know a lot of brewers use that glass, probably had to be dragged into doing it away from the green. I commend them. It is a good first step. Problem is – STILL - this glass isn’t UV-proof, and the sunshine is still getting in. Definitely not the “Sunshine Of Your Love!!!”
So let’s all look at using some Weihenstephaner or Ayinger-quality brown glass, eh? We love you guys, we love your beer. Your glass bottles? Uhhhhh, not so much. Otherwise great beer!
PakaPramen comes at you lightly, as a 4% ABV beer should. I guess talking Czech lagers, we should be talking degrees Plato, so this would be about a 10% Plato beer. Saaz hops predominate and at 4% ABV, this is an easy drinking lager.
Now onto the packaging – I ‘gotta tell ya, I did pick up a slight amount of skunk on the front end. Not a lot, but some. Maybe a 5% skunker. Tastebuds are funny things – I think they adapt very quickly and then don’t pick up abnormalities to the taste environment – kind of like smoke beers. At first you taste the smoke, then it diminishes quickly as you adapt to it. So it is with skunking, you notice the off-aroma and taste predominantly at first, then it lets up. I’m near the bottom of this stein, and I’m not picking it up at all any more. When I started I did notice it. The main culprit here is the greenish-light brown colored Euro glass.
I know a lot of brewers use that glass, probably had to be dragged into doing it away from the green. I commend them. It is a good first step. Problem is – STILL - this glass isn’t UV-proof, and the sunshine is still getting in. Definitely not the “Sunshine Of Your Love!!!”
So let’s all look at using some Weihenstephaner or Ayinger-quality brown glass, eh? We love you guys, we love your beer. Your glass bottles? Uhhhhh, not so much. Otherwise great beer!
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It's posted in General Chit Chat. I should have put a link.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/seanjwalker1.735158/
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