What are you drinking now?

[mattmmille]

I just know that there is no such thing as enough ginger. I had a commercial hard ginger beer a couple weeks ago and loved it. I put a **** ton (metric ass load) of ginger in a kolsh once and it was great. Aside from barley, hops and rye, it is the best thing to make a drink out of. That said... Sweet is bad.


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If you don't like it sweet, then push me down your list a few notches. This was made following the Trinidadian recipe and I get the impression that they like it sweet and not at all hot. After I satisfy my brother in-law, I'm thinking that my next batch is going to suit your tastes and mine a lot more! But with the weather cooling off, It probably won't be until next Summer. But I'll kick up ginger volume big time. I'll add more sugar, but ferment it out for a higher ABV, too.

 

[thatjonguy]

Bring on the cold!

 

[wobrien]

Like chocolate milk for drunks

They should package this in those cardboard half-pints

 

[mhurst111]

F this cold. It's not supposed to get above 32 for a week.

Guess I need to just keep myself lubricated with a little anti-freeze.

 

[Hello]

Wasn't made with a disposal motor, was it ?? ...
good luck with it, great to have ...

Nah. It's motor less. I'll use my drill I hope.

Yeah,I knew it was overcarbed...but hoping it was still enjoyable. Not complex or anything, but despite being an extract/partial mash, I used some good Kona blend, cold brewed coffee at bottling and Costa Rican cocoa husks in the boil and nibs in the secondary. I just felt like it was missing something. Let me know what you have left, I'll ID them for you! And good luck with the shoulder surgery. SWMBO had what was probably a more involved rotator cuff surgery recently and it has been a long, frustrating recovery...but she's getting there.

Tomorrow, I drive to Yale, VA. with the two younger kids for a one day visit to see my Mom and sister/brother-in-law...probably last chance before Christmas. Mom is more of a wine drinker, but she likes beer ok, so, I'll taker her a sixer. Brother-in-law is from Trinidad, so I'm taking some ginger beer (non-alcoholic) to him that I made following a Trinidadian recipe. I'm also taking up a couple bottles of fermented ginger beer...we'll see what he thinks.

I decided to open a bottle of each of the ginger beers, regular and fermented, to see how they taste before I deliver them. This is the non-alcoholic. A bit sweet for me, but I think that's the style. I little more carbonation would be okay, but I didn't want bottle bombs and I had to pasteurized them. (New computer is confusing me...tried to rotate the photo...not how it came out. Argh.)

Fermented ginger beer? Want.

Very cool, buying base malt in bulk is one of the biggest cuts to my price per batch.

Yeah, pricing it and sourcing it now. 2-row, MO, and probably caramel 60 to start.

 

[thatjonguy]

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F this cold. It's not supposed to get above 32 for a week.

Guess I need to just keep myself lubricated with a little anti-freeze.

We are going to drop below 0 up here by the end of next week.

 

[wobrien]

Wasn't made with a disposal motor, was it ?? ...

good luck with it, great to have ...

Hey! I resemble that remark

 

[mhurst111]

We are going to drop below 0 up here by the end of next week.

We typically only get a couple days of this crap. Might hit zero overnight in the next couple days.

Zombie dust. Recycled pic.

 

[Natdavis777]

It looks like uplands public sour sale is next Saturday and I will be in the area for work. Are these things really worth 25 bucks a bottle, keeping in mind that I have no interest in them myself and would just be bifing them. Translation, are they worth a half a case of zombie dust per bottle?


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In a nutshell, yes. They make awesome sours. At the last microbrewery fest in Broad Ripple, the had a sour line going and hardly anyone was in it (mostly bc when they started cracking sours, most people were just focused on getting lit at that point). Let's just say I spent a good amount of time there.


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[thatjonguy]

It is too early for this crap, is normally a January/February thing.

 

[Natdavis777]

I agree. On the bright side though, should keep deer on the move, so hopefully I'll have a prosperous opening weekend


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[mcbaumannerb]

On to the coffee. CT trip pushed to the end of the week so I got to sleep in today!

 

[Remmy]

Coff.

Might take the day off from drinking as yesterday was a rough one.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Coff.

Might take the day off from drinking as yesterday was a rough one.

Hmmm ... Didn't you say you had the day off? I think you're getting smacked. :fro:

 

[Hello]

Coff.

Might take the day off from drinking as yesterday was a rough one.

But you said beer didn't affect you!

Coffee, water....etc etc.
Sleepy and feeling beat up for some odd reason.

 

[Remmy]

Hmmm ... Didn't you say you had the day off? I think you're getting smacked. :fro:

I do have the day off from work. However, I'm spending it outside sawing and splitting more wood since it's rather nice outside today. It's the perfect fall day for beer.

 

[Hello]

I do have the day off from work. However, I'm spending it outside sawing and splitting more wood since it's rather nice outside today. It's the perfect fall day for beer.

You know I was giving you crap. So what do you do when you run out of trees? Serious question because it sounds like you've cut down hundreds.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Tired as hell. Stayed up too late again. Caffeine

 

[PatrickGoss]

Gas station coffee, which is a huge step up from factory coffee.

Lots of new hires today. Going to pull my hair out but it just makes the beer taste better after work when the day is long.


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[Remmy]

You know I was giving you crap. So what do you do when you run out of trees? Serious question because it sounds like you've cut down hundreds.

Never run out. I either cut them down or get wood delivered from my buddy who owns a tree-cutting business. He pays to get rid of wood so drops some off at my house instead.

Another big cup of Coff.

 

[unionrdr]

2nd cup of coffee myself. Trying to get bright before writing some more of book two of my Time Lords 2034 series. The tribulations of The New Camelot aren't over yet!...

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Coffee.

 

[wyobrewer1]

Coffee with a little drywall work this morning

 

[smurfjuice]

Never run out. I either cut them down or get wood delivered from my buddy who owns a tree-cutting business. He pays to get rid of wood so drops some off at my house instead.

Another big cup of Coff.

Thats a good man to know ...

 

[BourneSupremacy]

Swill!

 

[Remmy]

Put a new chain on my saw. Time to get to work.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Swill!

Those must cost a small fortune. I want pappy so bad. Havent found it yet

 

[jak1010]

Put a new chain on my saw. Time to get to work.

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I'm sure it's just from habit but, you accidentally put a beer in there.

 

[onetoeddogbrewery]

Water after a dog run/walk. Happy Veterans Day. Thank you for yalls service.

 

[Hello]

Water. The dog was exceptionally hyper on her walk today.