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Got around to finally having a beer.

Meh

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Choking down FlashBrewing Citra Pale Ale. Tastes like a hard-core grapefruit bomb, almost like I'm drinking grapefruit juice. Fermented at 64f for 2 weeks, aged a week at 68, and kegged and carbed at 38. Fully attenuated at 1.009. I do NOT like grapefruit.i need a few kegs of stout to wash this out of my mouth...
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I think...this damn lager is almostish/finally ready? Only my second lager, and I changed the hop bill on this one too moreso because I've just got to get rid of a wide variety of hops. 2 weeks in, it was really green, and hop burn city. 4 weeks in, had some what I'm guessing is acetaldehyde off-flavor with some pretty strong apple-y character to it. Today, I'm at 5 weeks and the hop burn is gone, the apple-y is almost...non existent but I can tell it's there.

It isn't a dumper, and really there are much worse off flavors to have to deal with. I know where I messed up. I had a brewday snafu, and the fermentation was interesting to say the least so between those two things, oddly enough my first attempt was MUCH better. It is nice to look at at least.
Let it lager for 90 days….
 
Impulse buy. I'm not an IPA kinda guy but I've seen this beer posted here, it was $3 for an Imperial pint of 9.5% beer, so what the heck! No noticable bitterness or malt, low carbonation, light body, citrusy. Tastes kinda like orange and tangerine juice, light beer, a couple of shots of vodka. Already affecting my ability to type!
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I can’t lie, I grab one of those every once in a while. I don’t love them by anymeans but they don’t taste awful and they genie job done. It’s what I usually grab when my wife ask for me to grab the blue can white claws
 
I can’t lie, I grab one of those every once in a while. I don’t love them by anymeans but they don’t taste awful and they genie job done. It’s what I usually grab when my wife ask for me to grab the blue can white claws
My buddy lives on them, there's something wrong with him haha, not that they're bad I just can hit the 9.5s like that. they made one called fruit force, gawdawful, don't buy that.
 
Continuing deeper and deeper into the British/Scottish/Irish beer project, now cometh “Old Speckled Hen” by Morland Brewing, Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Brewed since 1979 as an homage to the MG factory and their old MG paint-splattered car, the “Old Specked Un”… All I can say is don’t shoot the messenger!

Plenty of people like this toffee tasting, somewhat sweet to me, 4.8% ABV Ale. I’d say that the carbonation is set a little lower to possibly emulate some of the English Cask Ales, this one would be really interesting being pumped out of a beer engine in a historic pub and served with your bangers and mash! Caramel coming through with some fruity esters, 2 malts and four hops, but low hopping levels.

I think a lot of beer-shy people would enjoy this due to the residual sweetness. Me I usually walk on the wild side with hoppy IPA’s and Pilsners, so the residual sweetness is OK, but in local parlance “not exactly my cup of tea! A good beer though, if you dig the style, you’ll dig it! Cheers!


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