A Christmas Exchange beer from my brew club HB Merry Mango Wheat! Awesome!
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I’ve posted a similar photo before, but in support of President Zelenskyy visit to WH today, I’m toasting again with my hb Ukranian brew recipe taken from @Brooothru. This is a good beer.
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HB rye stout on nitro, plus a big ol’ plate of Culver’s cheese curds.
Dgallo
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Looks like a White Russian lol. How much did the whole nitrogen set up run you? Also, is there any ability to bottle it for sharing or comps? I’ve been interested in doing but haven’t done any real research into it
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Fresh Squeezed IPA
Dogfish Head Crimson Cru. I've never had a beer from this brewery that I enjoyed (all too bitter for me) until now. This red ale is a blend of their red ale and Rodenbach Grand Cru barrel aged red-brown ale. Malt, a little citrus, plum, cherry, all very subtle to me. I really like this one. 7.1%, 15 ibu.
My HB Mosaic Pale Ale. Not a good picture, but wanted to get a little Christmas into the photo!
Coffee while trying to warm up after being outside helping my son try to get better insulation on our horse tank. In the midst of blizzard #2 in the last 9 days. Currently -6° with 28 mph winds. Wind chill sitting at -32°.
Praire Bomb!
Hydro sample of smoked porter. Dropped a couple points in 9 days but still at 1.030 so I'm sure it's not done. Pretty tasty, though.
Maybe $8-900 for a three-tap all-nitro keezer? I don’t know of any way to bottle it as “nitro” — without the high dispense pressure and the faucet, you just get flat beer.
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That looks like a damn good beer, but it's not one I sent you.
I should go try to find that one...
I like that Spyglass sells singles. Out Xmas shopping and stopped by. Can't wait for the move to exit 1. Closer to home.
This amber is a beautiful pour
This amber is a beautiful pour
Another exchange from the club, not HB.
Something higher gravity on another sub-zero evening.
One more half day of work left before a much needed break.
TwistedGray
El Jefe Brewing Company
HB Double India Pale Lager. 6kg Bohemian Pilsner and 3kg Munich. 120g of Idaho 7 hops in total. 50g at 60 minutes, 40g at 5 minutes, and 30g at flameout. Fermented on top of the yeastcake of an Idaho 7 Black IPA using Saflager S-23. Three weeks in the FV and one week lagering/carbonating.
OG: 1.077
FG: 1.013
ABV: 8.5%
Tastes of tangerine with a bit of cannabis. I prefer my IPA's to be a bit malty and this is, so I'm happy with it. A bit of chill haze though, but it probably would have cleared-up if I waited longer to tap the keg.
OG: 1.077
FG: 1.013
ABV: 8.5%
Tastes of tangerine with a bit of cannabis. I prefer my IPA's to be a bit malty and this is, so I'm happy with it. A bit of chill haze though, but it probably would have cleared-up if I waited longer to tap the keg.
What it that bladder thingy in the center of the picture?
https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/ccguardianv3.htm
Cold crash guardian. I use it to capture fermentation gas and push beer into kegs/bottles without opening the fermenter. And I guess this time of the year, it’s a soft cold crash in the basement compared to ferment temperature
Nice old glass
Short pour of the Fizzy Yellow Lager I kegged yesterday. Not quite carbed yet but tastes like it will make the Busch Latte drinkers happy. That’s assuming any of them can get here by Xmas. Lot’s of road closures around the state today.
My buddy that’s in the Air Force just got back from being in Germany for a while. He brought me back this Trappist glass and the beer that goes with it - TWO of them. He said this is the one that was voted “Best Beer in the World.” 
I’ll forgive him for being in the Air Force (I’m retired Army). I’ll try it later today or tomorrow in this glass and will savor it!
I’ll forgive him for being in the Air Force (I’m retired Army). I’ll try it later today or tomorrow in this glass and will savor it!
Wife and I did a beercation in Belgium back in 2014. I brought back 2 of those glasses and a dozen of those beers. I gave a glass and a few beers to our son, did a blind taste test with another, against two other quads, and have slowly savored the rest. I’m down to one left that I still need to drink one of these days. The last one I drank, two or three years ago was just phenomenal.My buddy that’s in the Air Force just got back from being in Germany for a while. He brought me back this Trappist glass and the beer that goes with it - TWO of them. He said this is the one that was voted “Best Beer in the World.”
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Drink one now and put the other one away for a few years if you can. It’ll be worth it.
HB Mosaic Pale Ale x 2
I’ll do that, as long as I can stay disciplined! I’d love to go to Belgium and do a beercation! That’s great you and your wife did that. Was this your favorite beer you had?
It was definitely one of the best, if not the best. We drank so many excellent dubbels, tripels, and quads that it kind of all blended together after a while. I will say that a couple years later my son-in-law, my son, and I did a quad blind taste test. A Westy 12, a Rochefort 10, and a Boulevard Sixth Glass. The Sixth Glass, while good was simply outclassed, which really wasn’t surprising. My son and I both correctly identified each beer. He preferred the Westy12, and I the Roch10, but it was ever so close between the two. Enjoy!!
Surprised that Other Half finally made it out to my local beer shop, as did Trillium but that’s for later.
Drinking a HB Kolsch while brewing a rye Schwarzbier.
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