What are you drinking now?

[Rish]

@Rish I've seen some hm ginger beer recipes here and I've done a few, they turned out ok but missing something... do you back sweeten at all? Seems if I add a touch of simple syrup it tastes closer to what I expect.. but maybe the yeast I used dried it out to much.. last one I grated ginger fresh and steeped and strained it, boiled some dextrose and added a touch of dme hoping for more body.. don't recall the yeast I used though.

OT.. same beer as posted above.. carry on.

I didn't backsweeten this one but have used monk fruit in the past that I liked and will do again. I'm thinking I'll use some wheat dme in the next batch.

 

[Rish]

SN festbier

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

West Coast goodness...

 

[Beermeister32]

Still in Sacramento hitting the local Pilsner brews, and I get this one shooting out everywhere, replete with chunks of yeast throughout and in the head. Totally cloudy. Not my idea of a funster.

See folks, Pilsner is a premium thing. It needs to be brewed and packaged with precision. On the commercial side, if the thing needs filtering, then filter it already.

This is the great thing about the German brews. Perfection. This one not so much. Dzüngle Premium Pilsner is brewed at a finishing ABV of 4.4%, definitely putting it in that session beer category, that is if you actually decide to go through the shooting can and messy cleanup again.

King Cong Brewing Co., Sacramento. Flavor is fine. Presentation is really lacking. Work on it fellas !

 

[Beermeister32]

Turlock is mid-state California, known more for almonds and poultry, less for beers. Close enough to Sacramento for their beers to show up here, Dust Bowl Pils by Dust Bowl Brewing is a fine entry into this market.

5.1% ABV, this stovepipe is advertised as “Crisp Pilsner”. That “crisp” word is drifting into the brewing vernacular BTW!

I guess crisp is subjective. This is a nice brew, a little fruity and estery for the Beermeister32 taste buds. Fruity and estery is sort of the diametric opposite of crisp in my book! Otherwise a fine beer, a bit more like a Golden Ale or Kolsch to me. Enjoy!

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

2 ounces of Elijah Craig "Small Batch" bourbon on ice... It's very nice! </borat>

 

[pshankstar]

Before leaving Philly on Tuesday I stopped at Iron Hill Brewing for a flight and lunch.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

A sample of my pish wasser light. Time to cold crash.

 

[hout17]

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

A local blonde ale, not bad, gotta crush this.. I'm on a truncated timetable.

 

[MaxStout]

HB London porter. Still tasting fresh after 2 months in bottles.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

My Friday!

Treehouse Real Sticky IPA and Black Lotus dipa. Golf courses are opening up aaaand rain tomorrow

 

[Beermeister32]

Last Pilsner from my Sacramento trip - and it’s not even a NorCal brew! Six Point Brewery is out of Brooklyn, New York!

This beer points out a couple things - first is the real difficulty in finding a bunch of Pilsners for this project. Now if I was drinking IPAs this week, there would be hundreds, maybe even THOUSANDS of picks! Hop farmers are diggin’ that!

Second thing - there’s that “crisp” word again. “The Crisp Pilz” is a 5.4% ABV Pilsner. I’m thinking that with all the Ales produced in the US, maybe these Pilsners have that character realized the first time a home brewer uses Lager yeast. For me, after brewing Ales, the first temperature controlled Lager I made smacked me alongside the head like a chunk of 2”x4”. Hey, this is CRISP!

“The Crisp Pilz” is a clean Lager, but I can’t place the hops. It has more body than most, and tastes a tiny bit like plastic to me, maybe it’s the handling, not sure. Not bad, drinkable and otherwise pleasant. Enjoy!

 

[Willy]

HB Mocha Irish Stout. Very popular.

 

[BongoYodeler]

HB ipa

 

[Rish]

HM cider

 

[fatjay]

Miller light. It's my outdoor beer that keeps me hydrated when working in the yard, because it's basically water.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Catch & Release, an 8.7% "murky" dipa from Pure Project, down San Diego way.
Hopped with Nelson, Southern Cross, Amarillo, and El Dorado.

 

[Rish]

Tasty winter ale, 8%

 

[firerat]

HB Kveik IPA

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Blueberry ginger booch.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Yum yum...

 

[pshankstar]

HM Limoncello over ice.

 

[ClaudiusB]

Tonight's lineup.

 

[loganklaas]

A sample of the raspberry hard lemonade I kegged a week ago.

 

[Brewsmith]

Some beer while working on other hobbies. Alesmith Nut Brown. Now why didn’t I pour it in the Alesmith glass???

 

[Brewsmith]

I finally acquired some of this year’s Bigfoot. I’m always surprised how drinkable this is fresh. About a year and a half or so of age seems to be about perfect, but there is something about the citrus piney punch it has fresh.

 

[flipster]

HB Munich Kolibri Ale

1:45 hike up a snowy mountain, a proper sandwich and an HB at the top of Mount Hochfelln. After that sliding down on a piece of sleeping mat ...

What a great way to celebrate the 5th day of a four workdays week.

 

[cfrazier77]

Never seen this before but very tasty. More like Murphys than Guiness.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Measured up my shed door opening for my new zero turn mower. Inches to spare and relived enough for a beer from my favorite brewery!