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Tasty but just a touch more bitterness than I'd prefer. I still keep buying them, though!
Welp, finally got the 'ol kegs cleaned. First HB beer activity'ish from the calf injury. Still ordered not to lift anything above 10lbs so retail it is for now. Fine! This beauty it is then
HB pale ale
Have to pick a side so Go Sports!
Edit: So being a Nebraska guy living in Texas, I guess Indiana it is
Edit: So being a Nebraska guy living in Texas, I guess Indiana it is
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That made me wipe my eye I laughed so hard. I don't have a horse in this race, but I do know what it's like to have to carefully weigh those scales to a nicety.
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From Vasili at Wunderkammer. Wish I knew what yarrow tastes like. I'm guessing it's the sweet bittering in it. Good
HB pale ale
That pop on Mr. Haliburton's calf was felt this far away. Difference is I don't have a quarter-billion dollar contract with my company. Anyway, now that I'm depressed....
A HB hazy while the tri tip is grilling.
ClaudiusB
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Start drinking real beers, and your depression will go away. I am never depressed
Amen! ^^
Cooler day today, relaxing out back with a nice Kellerbier. Sehr lecker!
Bulleit Rye on the rocks.
My Raspberry Gose (poured awhile ago... Making dinner)
Bud Light. For no appearant reason I am on a light lager kick the last few days.
Miller Lite. It is a good thing these are light beers.
During my light beer tour, I found one other beer I thought I’d try – Bud Ice.
Traditionally, ice beers (like Eisbock, literally, Ice Bock) are beers which have used a freezing distillation process to increase ABV. Get the beer in a near frozen state, and strip off the slushy ice crystals which form, which is mostly water. What remains is a higher ABV beer. I’m sure winters around Kulmbach, Germany where this was first done were full of beer lovers just waiting for a good freeze to concentrate their beers. These were usually a minimum of 7% ABV, sometimes much more and turned a quality Doppelbock into something even more flavorful and terrific. Was können wir mit unserem Bier machen? Super!
So how does Bud Ice fit in? Well the “Ice Beer” craze in America has come and gone, and is way in the rearview mirror. I think Ice beers today are more of a competitor to the malt liquor market where certain individuals, usually drinking out of a paper bag down by the dumpster, were looking for a certain quantity of booze, and not necessarily the quality.
With many craft brewed Blonde and Amber Ales filling up this space, you don’t see as many ice beers these days. Bud Ice is a 5.5% ABV lager, slightly yellow/orangish in color due to the concentration. Not much head, zero lacing, who cares, when you’re tipping these back from a paper bag!
Traditionally, ice beers (like Eisbock, literally, Ice Bock) are beers which have used a freezing distillation process to increase ABV. Get the beer in a near frozen state, and strip off the slushy ice crystals which form, which is mostly water. What remains is a higher ABV beer. I’m sure winters around Kulmbach, Germany where this was first done were full of beer lovers just waiting for a good freeze to concentrate their beers. These were usually a minimum of 7% ABV, sometimes much more and turned a quality Doppelbock into something even more flavorful and terrific. Was können wir mit unserem Bier machen? Super!
So how does Bud Ice fit in? Well the “Ice Beer” craze in America has come and gone, and is way in the rearview mirror. I think Ice beers today are more of a competitor to the malt liquor market where certain individuals, usually drinking out of a paper bag down by the dumpster, were looking for a certain quantity of booze, and not necessarily the quality.
With many craft brewed Blonde and Amber Ales filling up this space, you don’t see as many ice beers these days. Bud Ice is a 5.5% ABV lager, slightly yellow/orangish in color due to the concentration. Not much head, zero lacing, who cares, when you’re tipping these back from a paper bag!
Coors Light. These main stream light beers lack body and flavor. They are impressive in thier lack of off flavors, as @Beermeister32 said a day or two ago. The QA/QC required to accomplish such a feat is impressive.
Since we're on a fizzy yellow swill theme, here's my Panther Piss Bum Strength. It's starting to suck yeast a bit, so the keg isn't long for this world. It survived two months and it appears that I'll survive it.
Trying to kick this keg of bier de garde, brewed a year ago, still good and like 9% abv .. blt's accompanying it. Yeah I put cheese on my blt!!
HB Apple Cider that I made and bottled last december:
Mott's apple juice (2 gallons), plus a small bit of wort made from 4 oz munich 10L and 2 oz honey malt. Yeast was S-04.
Tasted the first bottle about 2 months ago and it was just so-so -- forgot about it until tonight, and now it is tasting pretty amazing! Much more apple flavor coming thru now, and it's not tasting bone-dry despite finishing at 0.998
Mott's apple juice (2 gallons), plus a small bit of wort made from 4 oz munich 10L and 2 oz honey malt. Yeast was S-04.
Tasted the first bottle about 2 months ago and it was just so-so -- forgot about it until tonight, and now it is tasting pretty amazing! Much more apple flavor coming thru now, and it's not tasting bone-dry despite finishing at 0.998
Halfakneecap
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Coors light made its way to Oz a few years ago. In summer, it is reaaaalllly nice to throw down 1 or 8 of them.
Compared to Aus mass produced lagers, of which some are good for summer, i find Coors light ( in cans especially ) to be great when you're in the mood for beer on a hot day. Must be ice cold. Quite smooth i think. Aus swill are very light bodied and dry. Coors is too i think, but much smoother.
I did try a few lagers with the Whitelabs German Lager X strain, which i read may be similar to the Coors strain, which did indeed make smooth lagers i found. Not the same, but certainly smooth drinking.
I'd love to try it on tap/draught
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