Tasty dark hefe in an appropriate glass. Malty, very subtle clove and banana, light/medium body, 5.2%. I like it.
What are you drinking now?
- Thread starter Dude
- Start date
Help Support Homebrew Talk:
First 'cold shower' beer of the year.. it's freakin April ... I know almost may but still.. hb hazy
Carb check on the Panther Piss Bum Strength that I kegged on Sunday. At thirteen days old, it still has some more clearing to do. The Barke Pils is screaming right down the middle on this one and it has that wonderful touch of sulfur that you get on a young lager, I really love that light hint of sulfur--it puts a huge smile on my face. I wish I could figure out how to get it to stick around. This will be a pleasant enough beer and it might even encourage me to put my big boy pants on, quit being a weenie, and brew some beers that can't be mistaken for a 7gal starter.
Prepping for a weekday brew tomorrow after work, a helles is on the brew list for tomorrow.
- Joined
- Jan 23, 2021
- Messages
- 352
- Reaction score
- 2,264
Latest WCIPA. The yeast experiments of 2024 are done and I’m back to wlp002. Still my favorite.
This one is pils + a touch of Munich, copiously hopped with mosaic, eclipse, chinook, citra.
I’ll be brewing it again soon when I get my MJF blend hops from yvh.
![Craft A Brew - Safale S-04 Dry Yeast - Fermentis - English Ale Dry Yeast - For English and American Ales and Hard Apple Ciders - Ingredients for Home Brewing - Beer Making Supplies - [1 Pack]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41fVGNh6JfL._SL500_.jpg)
Pennine
Well Known Fool
- Joined
- Sep 10, 2019
- Messages
- 534
- Reaction score
- 2,569
Hopsfarmer
Member
San Tan Moon Juice most nights
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2004
- Messages
- 4,055
- Reaction score
- 3,396
I'm just drinking tea, but the photos with the mugs and cans are outstanding.
Out back with a Mind Haze, the lowest ABV offering from the Firestone haze sampler, at "only" 6.2%.
Dgallo
Instagram: bantam_brews
Homebrewed West Coast IPA at 7.6% dryhoped with Nelson T90, Mosaic T90, Strata T90, and Quantum Mosiac & Mosaic Omni from Abstrax.
Def the best side of the house for pictures around dinner time lol
Def the best side of the house for pictures around dinner time lol
Very tasty doppelbock. Slightly sweet, a touch of bitterness, roasted malt, a little molasses and caramel, 7.6%. I see in the small print on the label "malt liquor". Country Club has a lonnnggg way to go!
Last edited:
Here’s one that makes it into my rotation about once a month or so, Weihenstephaner Helles. This is a very tasty and malty lighter color beer. Note the German Helles or Hell refers to a lightness of color, not a lightness of calories or alcohol content like you might find in an American beer called "light." A Helles frequently would have a similar malt bill to a Pilsner, without the additional hopping you might find in a Pils, therefore it is somewhat more malt-forward than a Pilsner.
For your typical non-beer folk, Helles is probably an easier drink for people not too keen on the additional hop levels of a Pilsner. It’s kind of funny that so many of the “traditional” American beers (as in what we were drinking 20-90 years ago) for the most part would be called Pilsners. In reality, they are closer to a typical Helles in terms of hopping IBU. Of course they use rice, corn or other adjuncts which keep up the alcohol level, but roll back that characteristic malt flavor found in 100% Barley-malt German beers. I guess Pilsner is a pretty loose term when ordering domestic beers!
Weihenstephaner Helles is a 4.8% ABV beer. There really is none finer, this one really nails the style perfectly. Get to know it, and drink it more than once a month! It’s a great chug… ! Prost!
For your typical non-beer folk, Helles is probably an easier drink for people not too keen on the additional hop levels of a Pilsner. It’s kind of funny that so many of the “traditional” American beers (as in what we were drinking 20-90 years ago) for the most part would be called Pilsners. In reality, they are closer to a typical Helles in terms of hopping IBU. Of course they use rice, corn or other adjuncts which keep up the alcohol level, but roll back that characteristic malt flavor found in 100% Barley-malt German beers. I guess Pilsner is a pretty loose term when ordering domestic beers!
Weihenstephaner Helles is a 4.8% ABV beer. There really is none finer, this one really nails the style perfectly. Get to know it, and drink it more than once a month! It’s a great chug… ! Prost!
Thanks for the great suggestion. I was actually able to try it back in October and really liked it.
HM strawberry jam mead
Drinking a local helles while brewing up 15 gallons of .. helles. Weekday brewdays are tough, probably finish up around 10pm.
Just ok
Wrapped up around 9:30, og came in just a little high so can't complain.
Most likely shouldn't mention this in the beer forum, but I'm sipping on some Bray's One Month Mead I bottled in late Dec/early January?. I had it stored at Texas room temp -80 F (forgot about it) and then put it in kegerator at 50 F. Its better now than it was at bottling.
MRI done...time for food and adult beverages. IDK about the HB Helles but this retail works
A little HM aranacello nightcap
Brewsmith
Home brewing moogerfooger
Union Jack
Welp, looks like I just have some strained tendons. Setting up LOA for recovery but hopefully just a few weeks. On another note went out to car and flat tire in the driveway. Always something. Anyways, multiple reasons to have a beer!
HB Hefeweizen
Oatmeal stout. Dark chocolate, a little coffee, a touch of molasses, a little sweetness and bitterness. Delicious beer.
One of the best known and tastiest national IPAs is Bell’s Two Hearted IPA. I guess we can combine a “New School” American IPA with some “Old School” Beer Nuts, eh? The more things change, the more they stay the same!
Well in the case of Bell’s, their Two Hearted IPA is called an “American IPA”. Based out of Comstock, Michigan, that’s probably a pretty good and truthful statement. We get hung up on IPA types, is it a West Coast IPA, a Northeast IPA? Hazy, Fruity, Black or Clear…Double, Triple or Imperial... ! So many choices when it comes to an IPA. When Bell’s released Two Hearted IPA a number of years ago, there weren’t all the choices. IPAs were IPAs, and we were still sorting out the differences between what a traditional British IPA was, or even an early US IPA – yes they produced them in the US and Canada over 120 years ago!
I can remember my daughter’s wedding in Michigan last year. She said, “Dad, we have our choice of beer kegs at the reception, should we order the Coors or Bell's?” Well that’s not even a choice…. Bell's!
7% ABV in a 12 ounce bottle, my kind of afternoon break… Cheers!
Well in the case of Bell’s, their Two Hearted IPA is called an “American IPA”. Based out of Comstock, Michigan, that’s probably a pretty good and truthful statement. We get hung up on IPA types, is it a West Coast IPA, a Northeast IPA? Hazy, Fruity, Black or Clear…Double, Triple or Imperial... ! So many choices when it comes to an IPA. When Bell’s released Two Hearted IPA a number of years ago, there weren’t all the choices. IPAs were IPAs, and we were still sorting out the differences between what a traditional British IPA was, or even an early US IPA – yes they produced them in the US and Canada over 120 years ago!
I can remember my daughter’s wedding in Michigan last year. She said, “Dad, we have our choice of beer kegs at the reception, should we order the Coors or Bell's?” Well that’s not even a choice…. Bell's!
7% ABV in a 12 ounce bottle, my kind of afternoon break… Cheers!
Last edited:
Similar threads
American Pale Ale
Sub 4% ABV Competition Entry - West Coast "Micro IPA"
