Another HB brown ale. I really seem to be enjoying dark beer lately. Might need to brew something new in short order.
What are you drinking now?
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Grodziskie sample fro the fermenter, I’ll probably bottle it tomorrow or Wednesday.
I have a few bottles of HM RHL still in the fridge, that we didn't drink over the holidays. Cracked one open today.
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I do like Czechvar beers, the dark lager is nice:
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I really have to hand it to the sales staff at Old Prague for introducing a ton of their brews to the US market. It’s something I wish a lot of other Czech, Austrian and Swiss brewers would follow. Especially the Swiss, buncha taildraggers…. Let’s work on “them numbers!”
Seriously though, we love Swiss brews. There just isn’t enough of the other types to satisfy the bone dry, dusty, thirsty, hot, parched palates of the Southern California beer brethren….. for that matter, throughout the US and the 51’st state!
OK, Ok, we’ll do those beers later. Today a completely delish and predictable 4.8% Czech Lager. This one’s right out of central casting folks, just exactly what you’d expect from an easy-drinking, 4.8% ABV beer. I think you’ll like this, give this brew from the fellas and gals at Old Prague a try!
Seriously though, we love Swiss brews. There just isn’t enough of the other types to satisfy the bone dry, dusty, thirsty, hot, parched palates of the Southern California beer brethren….. for that matter, throughout the US and the 51’st state!
OK, Ok, we’ll do those beers later. Today a completely delish and predictable 4.8% Czech Lager. This one’s right out of central casting folks, just exactly what you’d expect from an easy-drinking, 4.8% ABV beer. I think you’ll like this, give this brew from the fellas and gals at Old Prague a try!
This is good stuff!
I'm astounded that a sophisicate such as you would know what is sold at Walmart and even moreso that you know how it tastes!Walmart sells tasty, fake, machine-made pretzels too.
RHL
HB Juicy Bits clone in one of my many favorite glasses 
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Cheers!
Having some George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey No. 8. Very much puts me in mind of Jack Daniels (old No 7). Many similarities but also different. First time I tried this. Really smooth and a nice price point - I’d buy it again.
Pouring old HB down the drain to clean and reuse the bottles. Gotta taste it first right?
2020 Grodziski with juniper. It placed in War or the Worts comp in 2023. Still drinkable but juniper and smoke are gone, err at least I can’t taste them
2020 Grodziski with juniper. It placed in War or the Worts comp in 2023. Still drinkable but juniper and smoke are gone, err at least I can’t taste them
Trying to save up some homebrew since my stock is slowly drying out (the holidays took quite a toll on it)
Tried the first bottle of HB ordinary bitter. Not too shabby--I'm pleased.
Time to load some into the fridge, as I'm running low on other HB. If I don't keep the pipeline filled I might have to resort to buying some beer.
Time to load some into the fridge, as I'm running low on other HB. If I don't keep the pipeline filled I might have to resort to buying some beer.
HM cider. Pretty good at 2 months in the bottle.
Well here it is – the most well known Czech-Austrian-Swiss beer of all time and really one of the benchmarks in world brewing history. Pilsner Urquell, the first and the defining brew of a style which later took off as the Pilsner movement across the globe!
Based in Plzeň, Czech Republic and deriving the Pilsner name from this home town, Pilsner Urquell is THAT beer where it all came together – a mildly hoppy lighter color drinkable style to become what we know as Pilsner. Think of all the brews across Europe, America, Asia, in the far East – Everywhere they are drinking Pilsners. And it all started here with this brew.
I’d say the American and German styles have drifted slightly away from the easy-drinking 4.4% ABV Czech Lager I’m drinking tonight. A Bavarian Pilsner is a bit different, the US counterparts from the major brew houses have a completely different product they call Pilsner. Czech Pilsner is mellow and easy drinking, as are many of the Czech Lagers I’ve been enjoying at the past two weeks. As always the Saaz hops predominate these brews. Pilsner Urquell also is one of those brews using open fermentation vats. How they keep it all together when as homebrewers we’re all stressing over oxygen ingress is beyond me. A great beer!
There it is folks, my review of some of the other European brews from these fine beer drinking countries. Hope you enjoyed reading it half as much as I did drinking it! Vypijte si Plzeň!
Based in Plzeň, Czech Republic and deriving the Pilsner name from this home town, Pilsner Urquell is THAT beer where it all came together – a mildly hoppy lighter color drinkable style to become what we know as Pilsner. Think of all the brews across Europe, America, Asia, in the far East – Everywhere they are drinking Pilsners. And it all started here with this brew.
I’d say the American and German styles have drifted slightly away from the easy-drinking 4.4% ABV Czech Lager I’m drinking tonight. A Bavarian Pilsner is a bit different, the US counterparts from the major brew houses have a completely different product they call Pilsner. Czech Pilsner is mellow and easy drinking, as are many of the Czech Lagers I’ve been enjoying at the past two weeks. As always the Saaz hops predominate these brews. Pilsner Urquell also is one of those brews using open fermentation vats. How they keep it all together when as homebrewers we’re all stressing over oxygen ingress is beyond me. A great beer!
There it is folks, my review of some of the other European brews from these fine beer drinking countries. Hope you enjoyed reading it half as much as I did drinking it! Vypijte si Plzeň!
I'm still hiding a half ounce of Van Winkle I have left because it's about as close as I'm gonna get.
Great chocolate aroma and taste, nice body. I like it!
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2025 Bigfoot... Yet another highly anticipated annual beer from Sierra Nevada!
Such a delicious beer. I now have a collection of 8 years of Bigfoot; a.k.a. "My Feet"! lol Guess I should start drinking them soon... I hear they age well.
Such a delicious beer. I now have a collection of 8 years of Bigfoot; a.k.a. "My Feet"! lol Guess I should start drinking them soon... I hear they age well.
Comparing my HB doppelbock to Celebrator (the beer I was going after). Keg is getting low.
Color is about identical. My aroma is a bit more roasty, theirs is quite a bit more carmel and sweet. This is true in the taste as well. Mine is drier, theirs is sweeter. I’ve loved this beer for a long time and never noticed it was this sweet. Almost like it didn’t ferment all the way out.
Color is about identical. My aroma is a bit more roasty, theirs is quite a bit more carmel and sweet. This is true in the taste as well. Mine is drier, theirs is sweeter. I’ve loved this beer for a long time and never noticed it was this sweet. Almost like it didn’t ferment all the way out.
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I got a 2013 bottle in our club bottle exchange. Thats my oldest one. Now that the snow and freezing cold is here now I might open that one soon. We learn the hard way they don’t last forever
I stole the 12 beers of Christmas idea and our club did it this year. We had 8 brewers do holiday beers and trade 3 each to all the other brewers for a mixed case of 3 each of 8 different beers. One of our guys did a Belgian quad aged in a hungarian oak barrel. Another guy did a maple bourbon barrel aged Wee Heavy. His barrel was used for Dads Hat Rye then used to age maple syrup then used for bourbon again before he got it and aged his Wee Heavy. Those 2 are definitely the highlights of our case. I submitted an imperial stout flavored with candy canes and peppermint bark.
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