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Digging through my beer refrigerators (yes, plural) I found this lone can of Carlsberg Premium Elephant Pilsner. Great opportunity to give it a drink and review!
Carlsberg in Denmark has been at it since the early 1800’s, in fact owner J.C. Jacobsen isolated the first individual lager yeast strain at Carlsberg’s state of the art 1800’s laboratory in 1884 and made them available to other brewers. The first lager yeast, known as Carlsberg Yeast #1 was known as Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis for years before the pointy headed intellectuals took it from Carlsberg, renaming it Saccharomyces Pastorianus in favor of Louis Pasteur. Can’t anybody get some credit here? Geez. Right on Jacobsen!
Well the Elephant is an Elephant indeed, a BIG Pilsner, we might even call this a double Pilsner, it clocks in at 7.2% ABV. The big malt bill has some residual caramel and sweet notes I’m picking up. My preference is Bavarian Pilsners that are a bit drier and around 5% ABV, so this is one you slug down for serious drinking. 500 ml cans are what the Doctor ordered!
Overall a good heavy Pilsner. A big dude, but some of you are looking for that for sure. Skål !!!
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Oh man... that's probably what I missed out on. Damn work!Good meeting up with @pshankstar at Treehouse Tewksbury.
Big Blue dipa - all mosaic
Aged Eternity stout
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Mega Treat Guava dipa - big guava
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Good meeting up with @pshankstar at Treehouse Tewksbury.
Big Blue dipa - all mosaic
Aged Eternity stout
Mega Treat Guava dipa - big guava
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And that sum a btch dropped an in person porch bomb!View attachment 835151
It was great to meet up with @TheDudeLebowski in person tonight at Tree House! I enjoyed King Julius Peach, Eternity, and Doomfire while hanging out together!Oh man... that's probably what I missed out on. Damn work!
Did you do low enzymatic mashing for 1.5%?1.5%-ABV all-Mosaic LUPOMAX IPA:
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Yes, indeed! If by "low" you mean "non" or "cold," that is. This was a 2.5-gallon batch, where the grist was 6 pounds of huskless Pilsner (Briess) recirculated for an hour at 40 F -- that gave me a 1.005 SG sweet wort. This was followed by a normal mash with 3/4 pound of Munich and 1/4 pound of honey malt. OG was 1.018, before I added 1/2 a pound of inulin to try to increase body.Did you do low enzymatic mashing for 1.5%?
Correct. I've done a couple cold mashes after the large weight loss but they always tasted off. I've been eyeing this from BSG although IDK if it's available in Home Brew quantities.Yes, indeed! If by "low" you mean "non" or "cold," that is.
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