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Best Imperial Stout I’ve ever brewed!!! Great beer with another 6” of snow tomorrow.
Since you guys are hogging all of our snow, the least you could do is give us some details on that recipe! :mug:
(Seriously, it looks pretty amazing)
 
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Oh wait. You're from Minnesota. I can't throw snow in your face. Sorry

We're New England. We only throw slush

We actually had the first total white Xmas in like 15 years.

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Since you guys are hogging all of our snow, the least you could do is give us some details on that recipe! :mug:
(Seriously, it looks pretty amazing
Since you guys are hogging all of our snow, the least you could do is give us some details on that recipe! :mug:
(Seriously, it looks pretty amazing)
You can have the snow. Got hit with 14” last week, 3-5” today.
I haven’t brewed someone else’s recipe in 10 years. So this is Joe Formanek’d recipe. Four Tsarinas is the recipe. It’s fantastic! I struggled to get one right. I’ll brew this every year.
 
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I had a Japanese rice lager with lemongrass last summer. It was perfect for August and so memorable I’m planning to make a lager with it this year. It was interesting, I thought the lemongrass came through more like a dry hop, like Citra or similar. I have to read more about this.
 
About an hour North of Cologne is the home of König Pilsener, Duisburg-Beeck Germany. König Brauerei makes another of the great Northern German Pilsners, named using the Pilsener spelling variation used frequently in the North.

4.9% ABV and another one of those crystal-clear brews. Makes me thirsty just looking at it! Check out the clarity!

Proudly brewed under the Reinheitsgebot Beer Purity Law of 1516 - that means just the good stuff, Water, Barley Malt and Hops (Yeast too, that came later). That’s right, none of that other stuff, no wheat, rice, corn, potatoes, bread crusts, pumpkins, sawdust, athletic socks… None of it!

That’s what makes a fantastic lager like this great Pilsner. Another one you are sure to enjoy… follow the recipe and walk in those big footsteps folks, it’s sure to please. Prost!


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STS vs me following the homebrew recipe. I didn’t use the dingemans Pilsner malt that Russian River has, and mine is not quite clear yet, so there’s a clear color difference.
Clear flavor difference too, but you might think they are different batches of the same beer. STS is a little more hop forward - nice floral with a bit of red berry fruitiness. Mine has more maltiness which I expect from Weyerman Pilsner, and a bit more spicy hop character.

Both good, though I would choose the real deal.
 
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