What are you drinking now?

[davidabcd]

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[hopkincr]

I've heard they add a small percentage of old soured beer to each new batch. Something like that anyway. I can't remember where I heard that so take it with a grain of salt. Anyway... I guess it's one of the reasons it's so hard to reproduce.

Might be late to this discussion, but I had read the same thing. So, when I’ve cloned Guinness, I pour one into a glass and let it sit at rt for a week or more and then add it before fermentation. Have no idea if this does anything or not, but I “feel” it does, and that’s what matters in the end.

 

[hopkincr]

Another beer from my golf trip to Indiana. Basically grew up in, and went to school in Bloomington (IU), but no brewpubs back in the day. When my mother passed away in 2018 I spent every other week in B’town for 4 months taking care of her affairs and spent a LOT of time at Upland. Best falafel I’ve had - and solid beers.

 

[JRHoots]

Might be late to this discussion, but I had read the same thing. So, when I’ve cloned Guinness, I pour one into a glass and let it sit at rt for a week or more and then add it before fermentation. Have no idea if this does anything or not, but I “feel” it does, and that’s what matters in the end.

Interesting

It's kinda like adding actual pumpkin to a pumpkin ale. It may or may not contribute much, but it definitely feels like it just should be in there for authenticity sake. I'm glad I found someone that actually puts this to practice.

 

[Immocles]

 

[WBB]

 

[SanJuanWorm]

Okay...wort is cooling nicely. Managed a 1.076 post boil....it's messy and weird, but after such a blowout, we're going to see. At 31C right now, might have to do the rest at 'no-chill'... just needed to sit for a bit. wow. Be careful.
It's weird.

-M.

 

[Section1]

Homebrew Black Cat Mild. Though I could tweak the recipe a little to make it better but I think it made it worse. Should've just left things alone.

 

[camonick]

HB Schwarzbier

 

[SanJuanWorm]

Worst ever. sigh. Hoses came off again ( never in 10 Robo-brews ) wort in the kitchen, again. Someone doesn't waNT ME TO BREW!! AHHH!!

Going to finish my beer and clean, and go to offing bed. Out.

 

[Noob_Brewer]

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Wow, this one is crazy good. $20 for four.
Edit: has anyone tried this one? First time I've seen/heard of it.

I absolutely love this beer! Last year (or some time ago, can't remember as time seems to be weird living in a pandemic lol) I bought a 4 pack in my local craft beer store for $18! There were 5 4 packs in there at the time. Tried one and absolutely fell in love! I love bourbon flavor that accentuates the beer, but I don't like drinking beer and tasting nothing but bourbon. This one has that excellent balance and that bourbon is smooth as hell with zero bite!. about two months after I bought that 4 pack I noticed there were still 2 4packs left in the store and bought them both lol.

Would love to have tried the reg Curmudgeon Old Ale too, but Better Half is excellent.

 

[Deric]

Mystery Pils…

Was building the recipe on the fly while brewing. Entered final gravity, hit save and BeerSmith crashed.

What I remember…. Pilsner malt, Carapils. Magnum for bittering. Late additions of Hallertau M. and Mandarina Bavaria. 34/70. 5.3% Kegged 09/02

 

[camonick]

Might be late to this discussion, but I had read the same thing. So, when I’ve cloned Guinness, I pour one into a glass and let it sit at rt for a week or more and then add it before fermentation. Have no idea if this does anything or not, but I “feel” it does, and that’s what matters in the end.

Do you pasteurize before adding?

 

[hopkincr]

Do you pasteurize before adding?

Should have been more specific. I add the beer just after flameout so it’s in the 190-200 F range.

 

[Section1]

Lunch beer, Homebrew Black Cat Ale and taco salad...

 

[grampamark]

Lunch beer. Breckenridge “session sour”. Not bad, but I think it might be the answer to a question nobody has asked.

 

[bwible]

Barrel aged old ale. This was a homebrew club project, several of us brewed beer and filled a used bourbon barrel. Dad’s Hat, if I remember? We brewed this last year and collected it after aging back in the spring. It has aged nicely to this point.

 

[bwible]

I'm not sure why, but every time I select the medium sized picture format, the forum software decides to flip it 90 degrees. I'm too dumb to figure out how to rotate it, so I've just decided that that's gonna be my thing. I'm okay with being the sideways beer guy.

If you do it on your phone, click edit. Then click the little frame thing at the bottom. That is the crop tool. Then you will see the rotate tool appear at the top. The square with the little arrow. Clicking that rotates the picture 90 degrees with each click.

 

[grampamark]

Breckenridge Strawberry Kölsch

 

[BongoYodeler]

Another good Casa Agria hazy.

Cheers!!

 

[user 263363]

My buddy from WV restocked me on this last weekend.

 

[j1laskey]

HB Belgian Stout.

 

[user 263363]

Finishing the night with a HB pale ale

 

[duncan.brown]

Last of the HB Hefeweizen kegged on July 25. Over the last two months, it has decided to turn itself into kristallweizen! Doesn't quite pass the Kunze clarity test (can you read Kunze's textbook through the beer) but damn close for a beer that is 56% wheat malt. Madness!

 

[WBB]

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Battery on phone badly needs to be replaced. On 1% and lucky to get a pic of the prettiest beer. Long azz month of work. Time for a break

Fox Farm Avalonia Black (black rasp/blackberry barrel)
Followed by:
Hill Farmstead Disobedience #27
Cantillon Parasol

 

[grampamark]

Vanilla Porter and pizza.

 

[orionol73]

 

[Immocles]

 

[camonick]

Very interested to hear the comments on the schwarzbier. I scored similar with mine this past spring. Got knocked for esters and too much roast

I got the scoresheets today. The biggest flaw in my Schwarzbier according to the 2 scoresheets seems to be an astringency issue. One judge commented "bitter chocolate" and "high hop bitterness". BeerSmith calculated my IBUs at 22.8, which is towards the low end for style. I added 1.5 oz of 3.7% Mittelfrueh at 60 min and 1.25 oz of the same at 20 min. Looks like I might have to play around with the grain bill and dark grain additions in my BIAB mash.

 

[camonick]

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I'd like to get my hands on some of that to see what it tastes like.

 

[camonick]

On topic:
HB honey brown ale. Last bottle

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[Immocles]

HB kveik Voss blonde ale. Looks like it’s all the clearer she’s gonna get. Like it, though.

 

[WBB]

 

[Immocles]

I'd like to get my hands on some of that to see what it tastes like.

I'm biased because I really do love nearly every beer that Schell's pumps out. The ones that I know I won't love, I dont generally try (fruited wheats, mostly), but man, they nail German ales and lagers. The small batch festbier is great (and brewed by my in laws across the street neighbor!) and completely different from their Oktoberfest marzen style lager. My wife is suuuuuper paranoid about me mailing beers around the country and getting blacklisted from UPS/fedex, but if you ever make it up into this northern end of the woods, that brewery is a must stop. Plus I have plenty of dodgy home-brew lying around.

Also, great label on that honey brown ale. It cracked me up, haha.

 

[camonick]

HB Irish Stout
I don’t know what changed with this beer, but all of a sudden, it tastes much different/better.

 

[pshankstar]

Both just meh beers tonight. The OH beer was the better of the two.

 

[TwistedGray]

Went to a nursery and had a beer. Enjoyable.