I’ll have to check that out.
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Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out. I actually have some Hop Fu in the fridge that I need to get to.I’ll have to check that out.
And now for something completely different….Divine Millsner, a gluten free beer that someone left in my fridge. It’s actually not bad, but I’m kinda glad that they only left one.
Hb neipa, probably gonna kick soon.
Of all the things I've learned being on LOA for the last 6weeks, one stands out. Yes, why yes, I'm more then capable of enjoying my life without the burden of a weekly scheduled work. That was my last challenge to retirement.
I guess the 2nd thing I've learned is this, ensure the next LOA is during football season!
This PA needed some tropical hop oil assistance...
I guess the 2nd thing I've learned is this, ensure the next LOA is during football season!
This PA needed some tropical hop oil assistance...
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I remember when Stone Arrogant bastard was one of the Heavyweights you could buy here in Southern California. Those were the days! Today we hardly give a 7.2% ABV Ale a second look… a Middleweight!
It’s not easy finding info about Arrogant Bastard. Advertised as an American Strong Ale, the Stone website makes the IBU’s “classified”. Looking at some of the clone recipes online, it looks like maybe 30 IBU, but it seems more than that. The presentation of Arrogant Bastard is very big… seems bigger than 7.2% and 30 IBU!
You just don’t encounter a lot of beers in this style. For a long time, I thought it was a hopped-up Irish Red Ale of sorts. Arrogant Bastard is close, reddish color is right-on, but then again, that hopping level and type is nothing like an Irish Red, so the comparison runs cold. I think Arrogant Bastard is also an Orphan!
Nice head, terrific lacing, stiff bitterness, approaching IPA range, - I think Arrogant bastard fans have a high bitterness tolerance. Most dark Ales like this are more mellow, this one is much more aggressive.
My wife had a gal at her office who drank one of these every night! Stone Arrogant Bastard ….My kinda beer drinking lady – dinner’s at her house!!! He he….!!! All you alcoholics would love this … Or even try their Double Bastard some time and go howl at the moon… Cheers!
It’s not easy finding info about Arrogant Bastard. Advertised as an American Strong Ale, the Stone website makes the IBU’s “classified”. Looking at some of the clone recipes online, it looks like maybe 30 IBU, but it seems more than that. The presentation of Arrogant Bastard is very big… seems bigger than 7.2% and 30 IBU!
You just don’t encounter a lot of beers in this style. For a long time, I thought it was a hopped-up Irish Red Ale of sorts. Arrogant Bastard is close, reddish color is right-on, but then again, that hopping level and type is nothing like an Irish Red, so the comparison runs cold. I think Arrogant Bastard is also an Orphan!
Nice head, terrific lacing, stiff bitterness, approaching IPA range, - I think Arrogant bastard fans have a high bitterness tolerance. Most dark Ales like this are more mellow, this one is much more aggressive.
My wife had a gal at her office who drank one of these every night! Stone Arrogant Bastard ….My kinda beer drinking lady – dinner’s at her house!!! He he….!!! All you alcoholics would love this … Or even try their Double Bastard some time and go howl at the moon… Cheers!
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Small glass of the hydrometer sample. My latest, a 5.2% SMaSH pale ale just kegged. Golden Promise and Krush. Tastes just a little green, but otherwise quite good. Should be really nice in a week or two.
Not very good
This Helles is starting to hit its stride.
Vacation-almost--starts now. Project review completed this morning and headed home with a stop at Treehouse to wfh. Pollen and Canadian wildfire smoke. Yum
Steely Dan playing in the background
Canniversary 10
Steely Dan playing in the background
Canniversary 10
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Sounds like a near-perfect day.
Almost forgot the picture…
Hazy Dayz IPA Leland Brewing Company, Leland,NC
Hazy Dayz IPA Leland Brewing Company, Leland,NC
Some booch with lunch, before I rack the watermelon mead.
NEIPA at the Fat Pelican bar in Carolina Beach. You walk into a big ass walk-in cooler and pick from a hundred or more beers, pay and sit down inside or out to drink.
Took a preliminary hydro sample of my imperial stout after 9 days, just to make sure fermentation is on track. OG was 1.090, this sample was 1.018, for 80%AA and 9.4%ABV. Notty not letting me down! Sample smelled and tasted good, so I might drink the whole thing.
The beer needs to sit another 3 weeks or so in the FV, then I'll add 16oz oak-soaked bourbon to the bottling bucket, bottle and let it age several months.
The beer needs to sit another 3 weeks or so in the FV, then I'll add 16oz oak-soaked bourbon to the bottling bucket, bottle and let it age several months.
On the lighter side...my HB 4.6%ABV oatmeal stout.
HB wheat
Yuengling
My German pils.
Well sad to say I have failed you all. I searched high and low in the temperature controlled and expansive Beermeister32 Bierhoard, and I couldn’t find another example of a beer like Stone Arrogant Bastard.
I did find this nifty can stuck in the way-back….. another orphan, this time Trumer Doppelgänger Lager! Trumer is best known for their outstanding Pilsner. Trumer Pils proudly displays all 18 of those gold medals right there on the can, I think the best Pilsner brewed in America. Did I say America? Yes, we know Trumer is based out of Salzberg, Austria, but they know a sun-baked, dry and beer-parched California market when they see it! Their Berkeley location is now a fixture in the Northern California brewing market. After all the new booze tariffs, there’s a real benefit to brewing in the US… Take that Euro brewers! Who’s laughing now!!!
Doppelgänger does share a couple similarities to Arrogant bastard though. Although this is a Lager and not an Ale, it is a big Lager, 5.7% ABV, and it is all hopped up and ready to party! Not quite an IPA though, this one slides in there between a heavy Lager and IPA (don’t say the IPL jargon, it doesn’t exist!) It’s a refreshing and hoppy big beer. If you like “the Bastard,” you’ll like “the Doppelgänger!” Prost!
I did find this nifty can stuck in the way-back….. another orphan, this time Trumer Doppelgänger Lager! Trumer is best known for their outstanding Pilsner. Trumer Pils proudly displays all 18 of those gold medals right there on the can, I think the best Pilsner brewed in America. Did I say America? Yes, we know Trumer is based out of Salzberg, Austria, but they know a sun-baked, dry and beer-parched California market when they see it! Their Berkeley location is now a fixture in the Northern California brewing market. After all the new booze tariffs, there’s a real benefit to brewing in the US… Take that Euro brewers! Who’s laughing now!!!
Doppelgänger does share a couple similarities to Arrogant bastard though. Although this is a Lager and not an Ale, it is a big Lager, 5.7% ABV, and it is all hopped up and ready to party! Not quite an IPA though, this one slides in there between a heavy Lager and IPA (don’t say the IPL jargon, it doesn’t exist!) It’s a refreshing and hoppy big beer. If you like “the Bastard,” you’ll like “the Doppelgänger!” Prost!
Tasty Pilsner zwickelbier
That is a style that confuses me to no end because I've never had one. I really need to go out and hunt down some cans.
I forgot to put the cod in the fridge to defrost last night, so I have time for one of my hefes while I wait. I decided to go full tourist mode on this one since lemon is part of tonight's recipe. Claudius will probably skin me alive for this and he'll be right to do so.
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