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HM cantaloupe cider.
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Grabbed a sixer of this for some commercial calibration.
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Too hoppy for style but good IMHO... I lived in DC area 25 years so I've had a few of these... I used to own 718 I Street in Near NE, right next to Trinidad... near the brewery in Ivy City. Spent many a late nite at Jimmy Valentine's Lonely Hearts Club bar on Bladensburg Rd. NE, where it was featured next to the PBR.
 
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Beautiful night for Medusa Beer garden. Humidity has dropped to dry and will get close to the 40's.

Dark Ale. Pretty good
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Hazy IPA. Good
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Mandarin Bavaria IPA with mosaic. Mosaic is a fav hop of mine but this ain't that great. Fun fact. Lake Boone was my local swimming hole as a kid. Ice co was around then.
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Night cap
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Kitchen pass for a couple weeks while my wife is in Minnesota attending a wedding and other events.

Stopped this afternoon at a buddy's brewery (Apogee Brewing), for a couple beers.
First up a By Jove, an English style Pale Ale. (not pictured). Tasted a bit off, and I let them know. Next up Space Cadet, a Belgian style Blonde ale. Quite good.
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Lastly, a short pour of a Brown Ale, Booster Brown. OK, but I it should be better. Too hoppy and not sweet/malty enough.

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After I got home I had a glass of my own Best Bitter, "Bugger All." Yeah, that's better.

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Drinking Coffee and checking out a gravity sample of my annual Oktoberfest that I started way late. It’s been a week- target gravity is spot on. I cold pressure fermented in a keg. 5 psi for a week at 50 degrees with 34/70. Starting to ramp up temp for a few days. Then will crash, transfer and lager
 

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Kitchen pass for a couple weeks while my wife is in Minnesota attending a wedding and other events.

Stopped this afternoon at a buddy's brewery (Apogee Brewing), for a couple beers.
First up a By Jove, an English style Pale Ale. (not pictured). Tasted a bit off, and I let them know. Next up Space Cadet, a Belgian style Blonde ale. Quite good.
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Lastly, a short pout of a Brown Ale, Booster Brown. OK, but I it should be better. Too hoppy and not sweet/malty enough.

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After I got home I had a glass of my own Best Bitter, "Bugger All." Yeah, that's better.

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I love me some English styles. I should brew a bitter with some EKG.
 
Lawnmower beer after some SERIOUS weed whacking and a warmup for the RHCP show tonight in Philly. Finally got the power head carb dialed in. It's one of those whack STIHL 4-mix engines. Always thought it was a 2 stroke until I opened the top cover plate and saw a pair of rocker arms. LOL who knew? Evidently the fuel oil mix goes down into the crankcase, past the cam and pushrods, up through the pushrod tubes and rockers and THEN into the intake valve. Weird.

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So I made a Pliny the Elder "clone"...posted a pic and mentioned that I've never tried the original. I live in S. Florida. @TwistedGray volunteered to send me a couple (and some others). This community of beer nerds and brewers is amazing!

Side by side taste test...The real thing is smooth and bitter, but still somehow balanced. Mine has the same hop profile and overall flavor but has an almost phenolic bite. Not even close! It looks very close, though...can you pick out the real Pliny? Cheers! and thanks again Thomas!
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So I made a Pliny the Elder "clone"...posted a pic and mentioned that I've never tried the original. I live in S. Florida. @TwistedGray volunteered to send me a couple (and some others). This community of beer nerds and brewers is amazing!

Side by side taste test...The real thing is smooth and bitter, but still somehow balanced. Mine has the same hop profile and overall flavor but has an almost phenolic bite. Not even close! It looks very close, though...can you pick out the real Pliny? Cheers! and thanks again Thomas!
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The right one..?

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