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Looks delicious and refreshing!!
Last short pint of HB Irish Stout.
Getting ready to keg an Irish Red and hopefully a pale ale this weekend
Getting ready to keg an Irish Red and hopefully a pale ale this weekend
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Brew on
Glendale California’s Paperback Brewing Company gets the Beermeister32 award for hilarity on packaging! I’ve had their Capiche? Italian style Pilsner here one time before – and here again looking at Pilsners available to thirsty drinkers here in the West.
Honestly, I couldn’t tell you what an Italian-style Pilsner is – except to tune in to their tag line – “It’s a Pilsner You Won’t Refuse!” OK, I get it! Whatever it is, you are looking at a 2024 World Beer Cup Silver Award Winner, that should say something, eh? Mamma Mia!
It is indeed a delicious Pilsner, and the wrap-around graphics will keep you amused the entire 19.2 ounces. Capiche? has 5.5% ABV – and I’ve noticed another thing regarding many of the domestic Pilsners coming out – it is a drift in style over their European cousins. Any German Pilsner you are likely to encounter is going to have a crystal-clear consistency. It’s part of the “fit and finish” of the beer I’d say. It takes a bit of work to put that amount of polish on a beer.
Many of the American versions I’ve been drinking have a haziness to them – similar I think to some of the other Ales most of these brew houses are producing. As if the crews know that’s how they make beer and they take it to about that level no matter if it is a Lager or Ale style. I just see more of it with Ales, so when they make a Lager that is traditionally clear, it doesn’t always happen.
Anyway, this is a fantastic Pilsner, hunt it down the next time you are doing a beer run. Salute!
Honestly, I couldn’t tell you what an Italian-style Pilsner is – except to tune in to their tag line – “It’s a Pilsner You Won’t Refuse!” OK, I get it! Whatever it is, you are looking at a 2024 World Beer Cup Silver Award Winner, that should say something, eh? Mamma Mia!
It is indeed a delicious Pilsner, and the wrap-around graphics will keep you amused the entire 19.2 ounces. Capiche? has 5.5% ABV – and I’ve noticed another thing regarding many of the domestic Pilsners coming out – it is a drift in style over their European cousins. Any German Pilsner you are likely to encounter is going to have a crystal-clear consistency. It’s part of the “fit and finish” of the beer I’d say. It takes a bit of work to put that amount of polish on a beer.
Many of the American versions I’ve been drinking have a haziness to them – similar I think to some of the other Ales most of these brew houses are producing. As if the crews know that’s how they make beer and they take it to about that level no matter if it is a Lager or Ale style. I just see more of it with Ales, so when they make a Lager that is traditionally clear, it doesn’t always happen.
Anyway, this is a fantastic Pilsner, hunt it down the next time you are doing a beer run. Salute!
Dave_Makes_Mead
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HM blackcurrant wine.
It’s in the upper 60s today here in Idaho, so why not enjoy HB IPA outside!
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Thats a nice looking Irish Stout. I have been wanting too make one. Care to share your recipe?
TwistedGray
El Jefe Brewing Company
One of many while finishing carb rebuild on the Model A.
HM arancello nightcap
I pressure transferred my latest ipa to the dry hop keg where the corny keg hop bong did its thing. Only second time using it but it's worked flawlessly both times.
Also, first time using Spectrum hop oil, (Bru-1), added it towards the end of fermentation. Seemed to work fine, the hydrometer sample tasted really good.
Also, first time using Spectrum hop oil, (Bru-1), added it towards the end of fermentation. Seemed to work fine, the hydrometer sample tasted really good.
Halfakneecap
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2.6% lager. Been on a bit of a health kick, so reducing overall volume. I have also been drinking low alcohol beers. I brewed this one. Pale malt and caramalt ( 15% caramalt, the rest pale ), S189.
It's much better than i expected and will play around with it more, though not too much. I don't use much crystal malt at all, so when i saw caramalt used in higher %ages for light beer ( 15%+ ) i was worried, but its a very mild flavor, and pleasant.
Next one i might keep the same, but try S23, as i find S189 can be a little plain jane.
Still, i'm quite happy with it. Will be good for summer.
It's the creepy label isn't it? That would scary off the trick or treaters at Halloween!
Thanks and you're correct. Cheep beer to brew for the brutal Central Texas summer..err spring and fall...hum and winter months.
Looks like a girl I dated in high school.
The last bottle of the HM raspberry hard lemonade.
So swim season officially began this weekend with all the grandkids but Papa needed pool to warm a couple more degrees. Between the last swim in November and now earliest in mid-March, kinda strange, both are our records. Can't think of anything that could cause this..
Cheers to year round swimming in 3-5yrs! Duck Dude is happy. WCIPA
Cheers to year round swimming in 3-5yrs! Duck Dude is happy. WCIPA
For some reason the title speaks to me. Pale ale from a local brewery
HB brown
Here we have another award winner with more crazy-can graphics. Brewery X, out of Anaheim, California comes at us with their 5.2% ABV Battlesnakes Pilsner. Just to make sure all know they take their Pilsners SERIOUSLY at Brewery X, this tasty brew won a Bronze Medal at the Great American Beer Festival in the Bohemian–Style Pilsner Category.
Definitely a nice brew, this beer exemplifies a couple American tendencies I’m seeing. First off is the stylistic drift I mentioned yesterday. Nearly all true Bohemian Pilsners you will encounter have a crystal-clarity to them that is completely abandoned on the American versions. Again, I think the brew crew is so used to doing Hazy IPAs and cloudy Ales that they’re not even picking up the traditional style includes fining, polishing and a clarity like glass.
Second beef is the hopping drift. Now I have to say I love IPAs, yessiree! This however is a Bohemian Pilsner, which means you should expect a very mellow hopping, nothing that jumps out of the glass. This is DEFINITELY a hoppy Pilsner, exceeding even Bavarian Pilsners I’d guess by 10 IBU’s. That makes a very refreshing and tasty brew – not Bohemian Pilsner style though. I think it was Jamil Z. who mentioned something to the effect that the up-hopped versions of various beers were more likely to win medals than the traditional versions in their respective categories.
I’m not a style cop nor do I plan to be, this is a nice brew. If these are going to drift off in other places, maybe they need to begin using the “Pacific Pilsner” moniker we've heard of. The traditional names about half-apply to these beers, I’m detecting a new movement in hopped up, possibly slightly hazy American Pilsners. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! Enjoy!
Definitely a nice brew, this beer exemplifies a couple American tendencies I’m seeing. First off is the stylistic drift I mentioned yesterday. Nearly all true Bohemian Pilsners you will encounter have a crystal-clarity to them that is completely abandoned on the American versions. Again, I think the brew crew is so used to doing Hazy IPAs and cloudy Ales that they’re not even picking up the traditional style includes fining, polishing and a clarity like glass.
Second beef is the hopping drift. Now I have to say I love IPAs, yessiree! This however is a Bohemian Pilsner, which means you should expect a very mellow hopping, nothing that jumps out of the glass. This is DEFINITELY a hoppy Pilsner, exceeding even Bavarian Pilsners I’d guess by 10 IBU’s. That makes a very refreshing and tasty brew – not Bohemian Pilsner style though. I think it was Jamil Z. who mentioned something to the effect that the up-hopped versions of various beers were more likely to win medals than the traditional versions in their respective categories.
I’m not a style cop nor do I plan to be, this is a nice brew. If these are going to drift off in other places, maybe they need to begin using the “Pacific Pilsner” moniker we've heard of. The traditional names about half-apply to these beers, I’m detecting a new movement in hopped up, possibly slightly hazy American Pilsners. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! Enjoy!
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Thank you… Well, it’s nothing special really. The standard 70% 2-row, 20% flaked barley and 10% 500 °L roasted barley recipe found almost everywhere. East Kent Goldings hops for 60 minutes to get around 40ish IBUs. I use Nottingham yeast. I also serve on 75/25 beer gas through a stout faucet.
New Schwarzbier that is the shiz-nits. Tastes good after a long day of work as well as a nice sized grass fire I had to help with.
Success!!! Got into Wunderkammer Biermanufaktur members club. Gerbils were working over time on the Vermont phone lines to finally get me thru. Now an excuse to go fishing up north
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Hb Czech pils from side pull tap. Still needs to carb up some more, but it's getting there and the flavor profile is perfect. Thanks to those that helped in my "help fix my Czech" thread.
Brewery X was at the CCCB festival on Saturday. I stopped by their tent and had a pour of something. It was probably pretty good. Damn my memory of that day is fuzzy.
Well that Czech went quick, 4.2% so whatever.. time to step it up with an 8.6% beaut from treehouse, dddoublegangerrr mmmm.
Very tasty Belgian abbaye ale. Gets better as it warms. I like it!
From the spring 2024 bargain bin.
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