Got a new fermenter so gonna fill it, 25gal batch, gonna max this system out. This west coast that @ThirstyPawsHB sent is off the hook.
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BJ' IPA with a BA Stout later. Next, very small samplings of son's liquor cabinet. Absente, Scotch, Mezcal among others.
SA Holiday White Ale
Today I kick off an entire week, that’s 7 days of diet beers! American light Lagers are some of the biggest sellers out there (Yes, Modelo is North American!) Crisp and clean, they slake the thirst of just about everyone many times throughout the month.
How they make light beers this clean is still a mystery. Some say flavorless. Some say swill. Some say p… beer. Not Beermeister32! These are works of art! How they heck do they do it? !!!
Making a lightly-flavored beer is the hardest thing to do. When I started brewing, I figured the light beers would be easy and the harder beers would be darker ones, like a stout. The inverse is actually true. Beginning brewers are better off learning on a 100-level, more complex dark beer like a porter or stout. The light beers are graduate studies! It is very difficult to make a brew this light and clean, any little flaw gets picked up by the palette.
Today’s chug is Michelob Ultra. Back in the day, when regular Michelob was being produced, we used to save our pennies for some Ruffles, Mozzarella cheese sticks and of course a couple sixers of Michelob! If we were really lucky, maybe even Lowenbrau! Back in the 80’s, that was living large!
Michelob Ultra is a light Lager, not too different from a Coors Light, which is my go-to light beer. It’s a good one when I’m eating food and am just looking for something to wash it all down without the commitment of about 350 calories of heavy Ale for example. There’s definitely a place for these….. Chug!
How they make light beers this clean is still a mystery. Some say flavorless. Some say swill. Some say p… beer. Not Beermeister32! These are works of art! How they heck do they do it? !!!
Making a lightly-flavored beer is the hardest thing to do. When I started brewing, I figured the light beers would be easy and the harder beers would be darker ones, like a stout. The inverse is actually true. Beginning brewers are better off learning on a 100-level, more complex dark beer like a porter or stout. The light beers are graduate studies! It is very difficult to make a brew this light and clean, any little flaw gets picked up by the palette.
Today’s chug is Michelob Ultra. Back in the day, when regular Michelob was being produced, we used to save our pennies for some Ruffles, Mozzarella cheese sticks and of course a couple sixers of Michelob! If we were really lucky, maybe even Lowenbrau! Back in the 80’s, that was living large!
Michelob Ultra is a light Lager, not too different from a Coors Light, which is my go-to light beer. It’s a good one when I’m eating food and am just looking for something to wash it all down without the commitment of about 350 calories of heavy Ale for example. There’s definitely a place for these….. Chug!
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Very good dunkles hefe
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Well mash ph was 5.6 .. now with these beers that could be the last data point I record hahahha, cream ale is easy sooo it's all good.
HB 5.2% SMaSH pale ale.
Golden Promise and Krush hops.
Golden Promise and Krush hops.
Home from vacation.
I missed an opportunity to meet @Section1 . I drove right through Metropolis, IL yesterday without realizing it was along my route home. I was only stopped long enough to get gas and eat a bite and he was at work. Wish I had been paying more attention to where I was. Maybe some how some other day…
Having a HB Dunkel to relax after driving so much
I missed an opportunity to meet @Section1 . I drove right through Metropolis, IL yesterday without realizing it was along my route home. I was only stopped long enough to get gas and eat a bite and he was at work. Wish I had been paying more attention to where I was. Maybe some how some other day…
Having a HB Dunkel to relax after driving so much
A little HM arancello while getting my next batch going. I'll sous vide it tomorrow, 125*F for a couple of hours then let it set for a week or so. This batch I'll dial back to around 30% abv vs. the 42%
of this one then sweeten with monk fruit.
of this one then sweeten with monk fruit.
Turkish lager
I’ll join you with a HB Dunkel, your recipe in fact. I brewed a smaller batch, kegged a couple gallons and bottled a dozen. This is very good, thanks for sharing the recipe.
Estimated OG 1.053 ...
HB cyser I finished off the little bit of leftovers
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Wow, your first post with a beer featuring a creamy-looking head.
I think I may have posted one or 2 of my HB in 2017 that would fit the bill.Wow, your first post with a beer featuring a creamy-looking head.
I know, it begs the question why not more? 
I’m glad to hear it was good. Do you think it’s an accurate representation? I’ve tried it side by side with some German imports and American versions and I feel it’s very similar. I’ve tinkered with the ingredients a little bit but always revert back to my original recipe. What yeast did you use?
HB oatmeal stout.
Tasty Pils
Who's going to believe this. Threw the back out this morning. Fighting? Sparring? Doing 40yrd sprints with a torn calf? Nope, throwing....a...dog....ball. Let that soak in. Full disclosure, I have a torn disc from 2003. Guess how? Breaking up my dogs from fighting. I've waited as long as possible to open a beer.
(Some is wrong with the site, post the beer later in case you've never seen one)
(Some is wrong with the site, post the beer later in case you've never seen one)
It tasted quite good, no off flavors, and even though it was only bottled less than 3 weeks ago it didn’t taste “green” at all. This time of year I can’t get very many dunkels locally to compare this to, but hopefully late summer or early fall that will change. I’m going to try to let this lager until September or so and then hopefully I can do some blind taste comparisons.
I used 34/70 and fermented at 62-63 degrees for the first 3 or 4 days of the most active part of fermentation, then let it free rise to room temperature (67-68), for a couple weeks.
Spent the afternoon with our son tooling around Pismo Beach. We stopped for a quick bite to eat and a beer.
I’m trying to figure out where Samuel Adams American Light fits in.
Sam Adams Boston Lager is the brew that got it all started with me. So it’s the late 1980’s I was on a business trip to the East Coast and had a layover in Cleveland or Chicago or Denver, or wherever, I can’t remember. That’s the sign of a good beer trip – you don’t remember! Anyway, I had a couple hours to kill and I decided to pull into an airport bar and there it was…. SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER! Well, I’ve heard about it, I guess it’s high time to give one of those bad boys a try. I ordered up a pint and couldn’t BELIEVE the flavor. It’s one of those situations where you want to go home and dump all the other beers down the drain and replace with Sam Adams…. it was that good! What a difference!
So here we are in 2025. That airport beer was about 37 years ago, unbelievably! So what’s the next mountain to climb? I mean, after being a founding father of the domestic craft brewing market and numerous other beer releases, an American Light Lager is something different. Like isn’t the market soaking wet saturated with Modelo Oro, Coors Light and Miller Lite… and Bud Light?
Nevertheless, here it is. It exists! A 4.2% ABV light Lager with the Samuel Adams name on it! This is a great tasting light Lager. I poured this just about as hard as I could trying to raise some amount of head for the photograph, to no avail! No lacing either, it is clean light Lager without foam and lacing producing elements. This is really a good light, I think it’s at least worth trying the next time you are browsing the big can section of the beer locker. Just to say you did! Enjoy!
Sam Adams Boston Lager is the brew that got it all started with me. So it’s the late 1980’s I was on a business trip to the East Coast and had a layover in Cleveland or Chicago or Denver, or wherever, I can’t remember. That’s the sign of a good beer trip – you don’t remember! Anyway, I had a couple hours to kill and I decided to pull into an airport bar and there it was…. SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER! Well, I’ve heard about it, I guess it’s high time to give one of those bad boys a try. I ordered up a pint and couldn’t BELIEVE the flavor. It’s one of those situations where you want to go home and dump all the other beers down the drain and replace with Sam Adams…. it was that good! What a difference!
So here we are in 2025. That airport beer was about 37 years ago, unbelievably! So what’s the next mountain to climb? I mean, after being a founding father of the domestic craft brewing market and numerous other beer releases, an American Light Lager is something different. Like isn’t the market soaking wet saturated with Modelo Oro, Coors Light and Miller Lite… and Bud Light?
Nevertheless, here it is. It exists! A 4.2% ABV light Lager with the Samuel Adams name on it! This is a great tasting light Lager. I poured this just about as hard as I could trying to raise some amount of head for the photograph, to no avail! No lacing either, it is clean light Lager without foam and lacing producing elements. This is really a good light, I think it’s at least worth trying the next time you are browsing the big can section of the beer locker. Just to say you did! Enjoy!
I'm cheap and I have no class, so I'm guzzling kegging dregs again. In this case, I just finished kegging my standard ordinary bitter. Seems like it'll be a nice batch. It better be, I have this one nailed down pretty tight.
I ran it through my hooptie beer engine.
I ran it through my hooptie beer engine.
HB Cascade/Citra pale ale... very refreshing after mowing on a hot day!
My grandson bought a mixed pack of these to share. Man, this one is a great beer. Malty, dark fruit, caramel, 10.5%. I like it!
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