What are you drinking now?

[Rish]

Murphy's stout in a fancy hotel glass. Still tastes great!

 

[Bramling Cross]

Some nice colour from that invert #2. How much did you use? It should be nice with that 1469 yeast.

I've been deciding whether to do one this weekend. Either a b*stardized mild, or a bitter of some sort.

Appreciate it, sir! You know your stuff and you're on the side of the Atlantic that knows about these things, so it's warmly received.

Just a pound, or just under 13% of the available gravity points are Invert #2. Here's the recipe, you can see I cheated a bit with my favorite colorant, Midnight Wheat--in the US, it's a helluva lot cheaper than other colorants and very flavor neutral. It's a very adjunct-heavy grist because, well, it's still frequently over 32C in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US and unpleasantly muggy. It's adjunct season.

Target volume into the fermenter is 7gal, to fully fill a 6gal keg @ OG 1.038.

5lbs Warminster Otter
1lb flaked maize
1lb 6-row
1oz Midnight Wheat
1lb Invert #2 in the kettle, pre-boil.

.75oz Bramling Cross 60
1oz EKG 20min
1oz EKG Knock Out
.25EKG Keg Hops

You're 100% right about the 1469, it's an amazing yeast and I've missed it terribly during the three years in which I got caught up in the great Invert #3 and Mild Ale thread. Tomorrow, I'll be re-pitching the 1469 onto a UK porter with brown malt and Invert #3. I'm really looking forward to that one!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I wouldn't worry too much about whether you put enough salt in it. As my gravities have fallen from around 1.050 to sub-1.045, I've been playing around with table salt, in the tun, kettle, and glass. Aside from the nucleation issue, I've found that there's a lot of fun to be had by salting the beer in the glass.

Put differently, you're on the right side of the great fence of worry. The other side is not so good!

Thanks! Should it taste like someone was crying in my beer?

Sam’s summer

 

[Ren06]

Sampling a HB blackberry melomel aged on rum soaked oak chips, traditional Bochet sample aging on bourbon soaked white oak staves and last but not least No caption caption needed.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Thanks! Should it taste like someone was crying in my beer?View attachment 827915
Sam’s summer

Aside from the fact that those are some pretty beers, I frankly don't know squat about Gose. Never had one, never brewed one. Due to the kidney donation stuff that I've been enjoying for the past year, my gravities have fallen markedly and that prompted me to remember something that I likely picked up from Randy Mosher or Ron Pattinson. If my memory is anything to go by, and it certainly isn't, UK brewers started looking at Belgian salt use in very, very low gravity beers during the First World War. That prompted me to start goofing around with it a bit more.

Prior to the kidney business, I had learned that I preferred to use 1-2g of non-iodized table salt post-mash/pre-boil in place of calcium chloride, because it pushed some richness into step-mashed, dry as hell adjunct lagers. Over the past year, I've crossed the 3g Rubicon on darker, richer beers.

Playing around with salt in the glass suggests that I could go a lot higher than that. But I'm not that brave yet.

All that BS aside, don't hesitate to salt your Gose in the glass. You can learn a lot from it.

 

[pshankstar]

Hot Dog yesterday afternoon followed by the Sanmauro at a friends house last night along with some other beverages not pictured.
Today the SN Hoptimum after lunch and now a beautiful beer from @CrookedLaker after another busy day working on the deck. Stairs are a PIA!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Anniversary luau at an Irish pub.

 

[beermanpete]

Earlier
Negra Modelo with dinner

Now
Lawnmower Lager at Mad Hatchet Brewing in Shorewood, IL.

 

[Bramling Cross]

I’m officially having a rager tonight, a second .2lt Kolsch glass.

Panther Piss Paleo Vulgaris. Just six row, corn, and Clusters.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Feels like it's the 3rd possible night for a bonfire during this wet jungle of a summer. All logs are covered in moss and shrooms.
Took all of two seconds to realize it was a dumb idea. Skeeters!

To watching golf and Suarez stuff from @fourfarthing Thx!!

 

[lumpher]

Drinking some of my homemade Sangria. Pretty good stuff.

 

[MaxStout]

Day 5 of going up to AK. Traveled from Ft. Nelson, BC, to Watson Lake, YT. No breweries here, but the hotel bar will do.

Made a stop for a dip today in the 50C water at Liard River Hot Springs.

 

[fourfarthing]

Delayed cheers to @orionol73

Always hard buddy.

Fat Orange Cat Baby Kittens

 

[beermanpete]

Just finished Chupacabra Borracho Horchata Cream Ale

Now starting This is Your Grain on Hops

 

[Bramling Cross]

Day 5 of going up to AK. Traveled from Ft. Nelson, BC, to Watson Lake, YT. No breweries here, but the hotel bar will do.

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Made a stop for a dip today in the 50C water at Liard River Hot Springs.

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When I read "day 5 of going up to AK," I assumed you were going up the inland passage. Oh, you're doing it the hard way, nice! I did that thirty years ago. It makes you think a bit differently and is well worth doing. It left a mark on me. A good one.

Good stuff.

 

[camonick]

HB Vienna lager
This tastes great after numerous outdoor projects around the farm today including a bunch of mowing that got away from me.

 

[Ulisses4677]

Feels like it's the 3rd possible night for a bonfire during this wet jungle of a summer. All logs are covered in moss and shrooms.
Took all of two seconds to realize it was a dumb idea. Skeeters!

To watching golf and Suarez stuff from @fourfarthing Thx!!View attachment 827937View attachment 827936

Suarez makes the best pilsners.

 

[Rish]

Very good tasting dunkel.

 

[Ulisses4677]

Sample of my lasted double ipa
Mosaic
Citra
Nz cascade
Ctz in the boil
Needs more time to carbonate.

 

[Ulisses4677]

 

[Ulisses4677]

 

[Bramling Cross]

Murphy's stout in a fancy hotel glass. Still tastes great!View attachment 827913

Thanks for the inspiration, Rish! I'm close enough to the end of the process that I can start thinking about closing down one fermentation fridge and using it as a storage vessel for some celebratory beers. Tomorrow, I'll be brewing a somewhat large UK brown porter for that purpose. I've been trying to figure out what to do with the cake. Burton Ale is too big and it'll sit around in the keg for too long, a big stout is, well, been there done that. Murphy's...that's kinda like a robust porter. I like that idea!

Add some brown malt and just a bit bigger....and there's the recipe!

Thank you, sir!

 

[camonick]

HB Helles
This 3 gallon keg isn’t going to last long.

 

[Rish]

Thank you, sir!

Glad that I can inspire someone just by drinking a good beer! Also happy to see you getting close to the end of the process and back in the saddle. Happy brewing!

 

[Ulisses4677]

HB Helles
This 3 gallon keg isn’t going to last long.
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Looks great.

 

[camonick]

Looks great.

Thank you

 

[buckinin]

Got myself a liter can of Oktoberfest.

 

[camonick]

HB chocolate porter

 

[buckinin]

A 12 oz Oktoberfest looks underwhelming.

 

[hilljack13]

First time for everything. 4 month drought over!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Baltic Porter I brewed a few weeks ago. Perfect after hauling furniture out of the house.

Beer needs to condition a little more to round off the flavors but it tastes great after working up a powerful sweat.

 

[Immocles]

Bit early in the day for me but my ppv is live in London, so beers at noon.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I think a shot of vodka makes it better. Picked a great day for outdoor cooking. Smoking some shrimp and jalapeno poppers along with grilling ribeyes.

 

[JAReeves]

after sampling some stuff in the brewery, a couple of All-Day cans from their sampler pack. I don’t care which. But this is the barley wine in my Brett barrel.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

We have the meats!

#1, the 90s Rocked! After...not so much.

 

[MaxStout]

Day 6 of Alaska road trip. On the way to Haines Jct., Yukon. Stopped in for a brew at Winterlong in Whitehorse. Having a spruce tip pale ale.

Edit: The brewery just lost their city water. No bathrooms. Everyone has to finish up within 30 mins. :-(

 

[CDS]

HB Orange Creamsicle IPA.

 

[RCope]

HB WCIPA

 

[pshankstar]

Today is one of those days I’m at the hardware store more than working on the stairs.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

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