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Tasty Kölsch. Just wish the cans were bigger!
Squandered the weekend doing my 4th 48hr urine test, so that means no beer for 72hrs. Turned in the jugs this morning so it's time for some beers.
Decided to pour my brown porter into a pils glass for some glamour shots. Every once in a while you get one right.
Then decided to share my shame with you. This is a Munich malt-heavy helles that I kegged two weeks ago and it refuses to clear. I've been having problems with the floating dip tube on this keg, I caught it sinking in the sanitizer bucket, took a stainless steel washer off of it, and used it anyway. It's obviously sunk again. Really pissed off about this one. There's a decent beer hiding behind all that yeast. But I'm a cheap bastard and figured one more batch would be fine.
Decided to pour my brown porter into a pils glass for some glamour shots. Every once in a while you get one right.
Then decided to share my shame with you. This is a Munich malt-heavy helles that I kegged two weeks ago and it refuses to clear. I've been having problems with the floating dip tube on this keg, I caught it sinking in the sanitizer bucket, took a stainless steel washer off of it, and used it anyway. It's obviously sunk again. Really pissed off about this one. There's a decent beer hiding behind all that yeast. But I'm a cheap bastard and figured one more batch would be fine.
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Brujos , root and branch collab
A sweaty Ballantine IPA clone - it's hella humid here...
Cheers!
Cheers!
Yup! Took me several attempts and a microfiber rag to get my pics today.
Mind sharing your clone? I've never actually brewed one, I'm far too young to have tasted one, but I really enjoy bench racing everyone's assumptions. As a brewer, I really enjoy (and learn from) seeing how other brewers tackle a problem.
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The kings justice by fidens
Soitenly!
This was my 4th go at it, and - going by an embryonic memory it's the closest yet....
Cheers!
HB Scottish ale. 6 months in the bottle and it's really tasty.
Owner of packy recommended this. Dang pumpkin ale fooled me. It was meh. More of a dry cinnamon flavor. Not bad or overwhelming but...
Mighty Squirrel
Now for one of my favorite Trilliums
Mighty Squirrel
Now for one of my favorite Trilliums
Beermeister32
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HB Bavarian Pilsner version #6. A simple beer for sure, it’s easy to see why Pilsners became so popular.
Weyermann Pilsner malt, Hallertau Mittlefruh & Tettnanger hops. 1.050 OG, 40 IBU’s 4.9% ABV, WLP 833 Bock Yeast. I snuck 4 oz of wheat into the grist for lacing and head retention. So it isn’t 1516 Reinheitsgebot compliant I suppose, but close, and pretty tasty!
My label originated from a photo taken at the Big Bear Oktoberfest a few years ago. It’s almost time again to pack it up and head North into the Big Bear hinterlands for more German lager in the pristine mountain air. I nearly froze out in the parking lot last time waiting for the trolley, heck not sure I even remember most of it. Each blink the clock ticked 5 minutes, what a night. Good time!
Weyermann Pilsner malt, Hallertau Mittlefruh & Tettnanger hops. 1.050 OG, 40 IBU’s 4.9% ABV, WLP 833 Bock Yeast. I snuck 4 oz of wheat into the grist for lacing and head retention. So it isn’t 1516 Reinheitsgebot compliant I suppose, but close, and pretty tasty!
My label originated from a photo taken at the Big Bear Oktoberfest a few years ago. It’s almost time again to pack it up and head North into the Big Bear hinterlands for more German lager in the pristine mountain air. I nearly froze out in the parking lot last time waiting for the trolley, heck not sure I even remember most of it. Each blink the clock ticked 5 minutes, what a night. Good time!
This is my contribution to 12 Beers of Christmas 2022. It got good reviews from some of the participants and people I know, so I entered it into the National Comp where it got railed by one judge as the worst thing he’s ever tasted. My wife who hates stouts thought it was good, at least before I told her I made it, lol. Maybe it was in one of those “sketchy” months that beers go through, IDK. Age does good things to big beers.
Moose Drool.
HBC meeting tonight after enjoying a Hefe by the hosting brewery. Had two of these and some awesome home brew.
orionol73
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A 12 BOC ‘22 offering. The cherry is still there aged well. I’m sipping it from a taster teku glass that I won in a raffle with 9 sachets of yeast. Yippee!
Thank you!
That's a solid ale.
I really like recipes that I can taste on my mind's tongue. Yours is certainly one of them. No funny business there, it's all easy to taste.
That's good stuff.
That isn't peak homebrew, that is maximum homebrew!
Everyone loved it, except Gordon Strong and your wife...but only once she learned that you made it. That made me howl with laughter.
It doesn't get more homebrew than that.
The people whose admiration matters to you may think you suck, but I think you're alright.
Keep hitting your strike temp, brother, because we're all in this together.
Thank you for the kind words, they're appreciated
fwiw, my earlier attempts were shy on the corn - it's an adjunct I rarely use, best as I recall I've only used it for the Cream Of Three Crops "lawn mower" recipe, so I don't have much "feel" for it. Also, obtaining the hop strains used in the purported classic recipe took a few goes to finally get together - I was substituting 2 of the 3 strains until this 4th try when I finally laid hands on the Cluster and Brewer's Gold.
Cheers!
Yeah, I feel you! There's *no* substituting for Clusters. It's so distinct and so wonderful. Brewer's Gold is much the same, but Clusters...there is no substitute.Thank you for the kind words, they're appreciated
fwiw, my earlier attempts were shy on the corn - it's an adjunct I rarely use, best as I recall I've only used it for the Cream Of Three Crops "lawn mower" recipe, so I don't have much "feel" for it. Also, obtaining the hop strains used in the purported classic recipe took a few goes to finally get together - I was substituting 2 of the 3 strains until this 4th try when I finally laid hands on the Cluster and Brewer's Gold.
Cheers!
Thanks for taking the time, I really appreciate it!
HB chocolate porter
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Looks awesome.
If I may offer some advice regarding corn, after three years of the Panther Piss adjunct lager project, I really, really understand why the German brewers that set up camp in the Mississippi Valley leaned so heavily on it, and why UK brewers eagerly adopted it.Thank you for the kind words, they're appreciated
fwiw, my earlier attempts were shy on the corn - it's an adjunct I rarely use, best as I recall I've only used it for the Cream Of Three Crops "lawn mower" recipe, so I don't have much "feel" for it. Also, obtaining the hop strains used in the purported classic recipe took a few goes to finally get together - I was substituting 2 of the 3 strains until this 4th try when I finally laid hands on the Cluster and Brewer's Gold.
Cheers!
It really does improve a beer, far better than wheat, insofar as it actually adds something to the beer. It's subtle, but it's there at 10% of the grist--try finding, much less telling apart, flaked, malted and torrified wheat at a similar percentage. I will argue to my last breath that corn is the ideal helper in any grist.
We need to stop thinking about it as an adjunct. It's not, it adds something positive to our beers.
Funny that you should give that last sentence about corn. From my club‘s competition we had some donated ingredients To raffle and share, today I packaged flaked corn to give away to our members, there was a fair amount left and I started to um, encourage people to take more, saying make a Kentucky common, American lager or cream al, and someone said they use some in nearly every beer they make… Learn something new every day they say, and you’ve given it validation with synchronicity.
I’m not drinking a darn thing right now.
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I would be very interested in photos and tasting notes!
Thank you! I'm slowly working my way through the 12BOC brews and enjoying them mightily as the days get chilly again!
My 2 day stomach bug is over with. Exercising the fingers...
. With help from a fav.
. With help from a fav.
HB brown ale
Love brown ale , saw a recipe. I.liked in BYO magazine..itll have to wait 2 weeks, brewing a spiced wit bier this weekemd.
On sale at Target for 7 bucks a sixer. Pregaming for HB club meeting tonite.
HB Kölsch.
orionol73
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Tasty Pils
HB NEIPA
Getting a back of the throat bitter. Surprisingly not getting any yeast nor much malt character. Just kinda 'dirty' beer for lack of a better term. Whatever, worth a shot.
Beermeister32
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Wow – Monk’s Café – First chug is full of deliciousness, that’s how I’d describe this exquisite Flemish Sour Ale provided to We Mere Mortals from the Beer Gods at Van Steenberge in Belgium.
Made in the land of fruity breakfasts, candies and deserts comes this equally fruity and fantastic sour ale. I’m picking up a cornucopia of fruity flavors, cherry, berries, dark fruit, plums and raisins. A nuanced bottle of goodness, make sure this is on your shopping list next beer run at Bevmo.
5.5% ABV, moderate carbonation, nicely sour, don’t look at the bottom of the bottle after pouring, Woof.
This sour even has excellent lacing. This would be an excellent beer to make an ice cream beer float. If only Van Steenberge would produce this in Man-Size 16.9 - 22 oz bottles, these dinky and anemic 11.2 ouncers are for wimps. Hey, why not 8 ounce? Geez, 11.2 ounces of beer, how generous. 3 gulps - get serious!!! Great beer!
Made in the land of fruity breakfasts, candies and deserts comes this equally fruity and fantastic sour ale. I’m picking up a cornucopia of fruity flavors, cherry, berries, dark fruit, plums and raisins. A nuanced bottle of goodness, make sure this is on your shopping list next beer run at Bevmo.
5.5% ABV, moderate carbonation, nicely sour, don’t look at the bottom of the bottle after pouring, Woof.
This sour even has excellent lacing. This would be an excellent beer to make an ice cream beer float. If only Van Steenberge would produce this in Man-Size 16.9 - 22 oz bottles, these dinky and anemic 11.2 ouncers are for wimps. Hey, why not 8 ounce? Geez, 11.2 ounces of beer, how generous. 3 gulps - get serious!!! Great beer!
Nice lacing. Should've got that beer ..
Mine tastes like someone's okay home brew attempt.
