What are you drinking now?

[camonick]

HB Helles

 

[Remmy]

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Local Rye IPA

 

[BongoYodeler]

Local Rye IPA

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I like the can art.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I like the can art.

The best part of Jester King..

 

[T Murph]

Following a question from @T Murph , HM ginger beer Moscow Mule. I'd never had one before. Ginger taste, a little heat and the lime juice play very well together. I like it! Thanks, T Murph.
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I'm glad you tried it. Now go the extra step and make them in a copper cup and coat the rim with lime. You will like them even better. Cheers ad hoppy brewing in 2025.

 

[T Murph]

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!

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The beer for which I brew. I absolutely love Pilsner Urqell. I brew it 3 or 4 times each year. I do it as SMSH as I only use Bavarian malt, Saaz Hops and Czech yeast. And I do a triple decoction mash to obtain the closeness in flavor profile. Additionally I brew a Lager that I call Taterbrau that is basically a Czech Pilsner with 20% of the mash being potatoes. I have won an award with my Taterbrau and everyone who tries it likes it.

 

[MaxStout]

A stovepipe of Radeberger Pilsner.

 

[Rish]

 

[Beermeister32]

After drinking smooth and mellow Czech, Austrian and Swiss beers for over two and a half weeks, it’s good to clear my head, reset the old taste buds and generally re-calibrate. What better way than with solid German Pilsner!

Today I’m drinking a terrific and SUPER CLEAR German Pilsner, Wernesgrüner, since 1436. I find these German Pilsners on average hoppier than their Czech counterparts, and Wernesgrüner is no exception. Delicious and drinkable, this is a 4.9% ABV beer. It really jumps out at you more so than say the Pilsner Urquell I finished off with yesterday. This really is a terrific beer and very thirst quenching.

Wernesgrüner is located in Steinberg-Wernesgrün, Saxony, Germany, part of the old Communist East Germany. The brewery is now owned by Carlsberg out of Denmark. Hey with Denmark in the news this week, maybe they’re ‘gonna be flush with cash to buy a few more breweries, eh? He he...

Chase this one down, I drank it all before paragraph #3 here. Really a nice Pilsner, dare I say rivalling some of my Southern German Pils favorites. Prost!

 

[BongoYodeler]

HB 3.7% Ordinary Bitter.

 

[camonick]

This is interesting but good.
Another from @Section1

 

[Rish]

Blend of a little leftovers of HM sweet and jasmine rice wines. Sweet cleared nicely, jasmine not so much. Pretty tasty though.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Lopsided pic of my pineapple booch.

 

[Rish]

Mediterranean chicken stew for dinner so some HM arancello for a tasty dessert.

 

[camonick]

HB raspberry hard lemonade

 

[Willy]

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!

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I spent the last 10-12 months making 10+ batches of pilsner, trying to clone a Pilsner Urquell. So, I always had a six pack of it - so I could A/B between the real deal and my clone attempt. Probably the hardest beer to recreate, at least it has been for me.

Thankfully - the work paid off and my version of a Czech pilsner pleases me to no end.

 

[bwible]

HB Vienna Lager

 

[MaxStout]

Having a half liter of some tasty red.

 

[Rish]

Espresso martini inspired dark lager at Trimtab, Birmingham. Pretty good.

 

[MaxStout]

Followed by a little smoke.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Needed lubrication after adjusting to 2025 return

Treehouse

Pretty enjoyable French pilsner. Is there such a thing?

And a variety of one of my favs. Haze Against the Machine

La GrottePilsner - French​

4.8% ABV
Aesthetics begin with shell and bone. After this, light and its duplications against the walls, its pitch the same as soot in the morning light. Revolting against our transience, awe stricken, the pleasures of the world are marked upon the surface. Our own hands no different than the fire corralled in stone circles. La Grotte is a Pilsner using 100% imported French ingredients. Johanne de Arch Pilsen malt produces a pale, straw color with a striking clarity. Notes of biscuit and light airy bread set the stage for a trio of French grown hop varieties. Classic Strisselspalt and its daughter variety Aramis combine to express soft noble spice and aromas of fresh hay. Finally Mistral hops, as if carried on a breeze, present shy notes of honey


Two Tree House titans enter the ring and combine their profiles for an exciting “in-House” collaboration. Pouring a glowing yellow with a thick sea of foam atop it, Haze Against the Machine creates a novel yet familiar Double IPA experience.

Haze Against the Machine
Haze’s unparalleled smoothness swirls in the glass with sweet summer peaches and dank, overripe papaya notes. Familiarity from Juice Machine bursts with mango ice cream, lime spritz, and juicy tangerine aromas. Brooding beneath this bright introduction is a classic dank and hoppy flavor that make both beers dear to our hearts.

 

[Rish]

HM hard green tea in one of my 45+ yo glasses.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Coffee porter, first brew from 2024 after taking a year off, tweaked the recipe- and it wasnt a mistake

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Today's my Friday. More Machine

 

[camonick]

A HB blonde from @Section1 ’s Speeding Bullet Brewery.
This is delicious.

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

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My Friday as well- cheers

 

[Beermeister32]

Found one more of these in the Bierhoard…..

 

[camonick]

 

[Dog House Brew]

Best Imperial Stout I’ve ever brewed!!! Great beer with another 6” of snow tomorrow.