What are you drinking now?

[TheDudeLebowski]

There's a couple of new nano breweries in my town. Nothing too impressive except I do enjoy one their black ales.

Mass beer week started this weekend and stopped in to discover they were doing a dark ale graf. It was really good. It didn't have a cider flavor but an apple/skin twang. Odd because whenever I do a cider I've never gotten apple type flavor. And oh! It's called Dark Tower. See if you can figure where that came from.

I was hoping for more from their farmhouse graf. It was simple. Nothing to exciting. It did have the farmhouse funk

Also, went to Cold Harbor and tried two versions of their old stock ale.

The base

The Apple Brandy barrel. I liked the base better. The barrel seemed to take the maltiness down a notch and I didn't get much brandy.

 

[TwistedGray]

Three beers from here and copious amounts of sake (tooooooooooo much)

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Whats the equation on your glass?

It's from equilibrium, and the equation is for their EQ juice, I believe using mass balance.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Never a dull moment. Was going to tone down a bit today but the house wasn't getting cold. Found the A/C Compressor 35A breaker tripped. After further investigation found this in the outside unit...

Oh, and sparks flew when I initially tried resetting and it won't reset even with power disconnected so I get to replace the breaker also. Don't worry through, I stayed at a Holiday Inn a while back.

 

[kheart]

@MaxStout

Funny you mention that. I still have the mug that I've kept since I was a kid in the 1960s. You could buy them at the drive-ins back then and on one visit my parents bought one for each of us kids.

Funny you mention that - my very first beer was from a mug just like that (the little ones). Took one sip and hated it. I apparently got over it!

 

[MaxStout]

Never a dull moment. Was going to tone down a bit today but the house wasn't getting cold. Found the A/C Compressor 35A breaker tripped. After further investigation found this in the side the unit...

Oh, and sparks flew when I initially tried resetting and it won't reset even with power disconnected so I get to replace the breaker also. Don't worry through, I stayed at a Holiday Inn a while back.

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Apparently it stayed energized long enough for the ground conductor to braze itself to that terminal. Slow-blow breaker.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Never a dull moment. Was going to tone down a bit today but the house wasn't getting cold. Found the A/C Compressor 35A breaker tripped. After further investigation found this in the outside unit...

Oh, and sparks flew when I initially tried resetting and it won't reset even with power disconnected so I get to replace the breaker also. Don't worry through, I stayed at a Holiday Inn a while back.

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[bwible]

Shared this one with my wife last night. This is a beer I’ve been after for a few years since I first read about it. A buddy in our club has relatives in North Carolina and I finally found someone who could get this.

Its a limited release seasonal from Foothills that is only available for a short time around Valentines Day.

Their website says: “A cocoa-infused Russian Imperial Stout, brewed with responsibly-sourced organic Peruvian cocoa nibs. Big chocolate aroma with notes of espresso, blackstrap molasses, dark sweet toffee and dark fruit. Medalist at both Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup.”

Their description says big chocolate aroma and they are not lying. Chocolate really comes through in the aroma. It has a good amount of bitterness and to me the chocolate presents like bittersweet or baking chocolate in the flavor. I don’t get the blackstrap molasses they mention but I’m not real familiar with that flavor. I think some of the toffee they mention showed up as it warmed up a little. (I really took my time with this.) The alcohol is evident but blends well. Its tasty and goes down pretty easy for something thats almost 10%.

I haven’t had too many chocolate beers to compare it to. There’s one called Moo Hoo which is sweeter and not an imperial. But none of these are going to taste like chocolate milk or Yoo Hoo, nor should they. I guess this is about what I thought it would be. I also think releasing this for Valentine’s Day is marketing genius. This makes me want to do some more with chocolate beer. I like Imperial stout, its fun to brew and good to drink. I’ve done them with bourbon barrel oak but outside of my one attempt at this a couple years ago (without ever tasting it) I haven’t really done chocolate beers.

 

[BikerMatt]

Schweppes Ruschian + Finlandia Vodka, beers are still in the making...

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Now that I have a cold house again time to make like a tree and get out of here!

KAUS --> KPHX using Say intentions.ai with a lemoncello

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Apparently it stayed energized long enough for the ground conductor to braze itself to that terminal. Slow-blow breaker.

I don't really know. Just a standard Eaton 35A CH. Couldn't find a 35A local so 30A it is. Told my wife just saved $500 from calling someone...ergo she's out shopping! Wait what??

 

[bwible]

I don't really know. Just a standard Eaton 35A CH. Couldn't find a 35A local so 30A it is. Told my wife just saved $500 from calling someone...ergo she's out shopping! Wait what??

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

If you remember watching this, you're an old geezer like me! Ha!

 

[MaxStout]

HB Zappa Kellerbier.

 

[Beekeeper]

HB Belgian Wit, HB Grodziskie, HB German Pils, HB Vienna Lager.

These are only 2 oz. glasses.
I first set them up so that SWMBO could select what I should do in response to today’s “my growler’s empty” prompt.

 

[Beekeeper]

If you remember watching this, you're an old geezer like me! Ha!

Curious, I remember, but I remember them saying “Chaaaarge...IT!”

 

[Bramling Cross]

UK IPA

 

[bwible]

Curious, I remember, but I remember them saying “Chaaaarge...IT!”

Yeah thats what it is. Charge it!

 

[Rish]

München Hefe

 

[Rish]

HB smoked porter. Over 1 year in the bottle and still tasty. Only one left.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

On a day of things going wrong, what's up with this new propane tank. Geez..

 

[orionol73]

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Doing OT Monday night as Family IT. FML

Edit: I was joking

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Free water

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

HB Margarita. Shaken not stirred

 

[jturman35]

9.7% HB RIS soaked with Bumbu Rum. Kegged on 3/5/23 and hell of a beer!

 

[grampamark]

HB Amber Ale, kegged yesterday.

This was brewed on January 7 and has been lagering at 40° for about a month so it’s not too “green”. Needs to carb a bit more but it’s a pretty nice dark ale.

 

[Deric]

HB WCDIPA …

 

[bwible]

HB German Pils

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Pre-gaming for Dune with the youngest. Should have 10 bottles of Lemoncello up by this time next week.

 

[MaxStout]

HB Exportbier. Still a little hazy.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Local Tripel and a Jellyfish

 

[Bramling Cross]

The lager is starting to look a little more presentable. S-189 usually clears a little quicker than this.

 

[Rish]

HB brown

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Poppy’s Pils

 

[Rish]

Founders Porter. Coffee aroma, taste and bitterness. Label says "graham cracker sweetness" but I don't get it, which is too bad. Still, a tasty beer.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

$5 Delirium Tremens thanks happy hour.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Restaurant week. Some surf and turf

Michter Toasted

Weller Full Proof

 

[Bramling Cross]

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$5 Delirium Tremens thanks happy hour.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

First off Dune II was one of the best movies I've seen in a decade. Next, setting up a telescope, Galileo would have died for, in 10min and taking a hand held picture of Orion with a cell phone...love the 21st century!