HB Chocolate Porter went down too fast for a pic. Now this. Trying to get my DiL who super Photoshop savey kinda gal create this logo. Place is out of business and I'm always afraid of dropping the glass.
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The name is the town where Adolf Coors was born. There’s a fancy 7 minute way to pour it, but my Pilsner glass isn’t big enough and it doesn’t improve the taste. Apparently it’s supposed to be somewhat of a limited release.
The name is the town where Adolf Coors was born. There’s a fancy 7 minute way to pour it, but my Pilsner glass isn’t big enough and it doesn’t improve the taste. Apparently it’s supposed to be somewhat of a limited release.
orionol73
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This beer is very dry and bitter. It’s not as bad the more you drink… or I don’t care.
HB Munich Dunkel
a Heineken can beer. I forget how good of a beer it really is if not drinking from a green bottle.
of course i do buy the green bottle for nostalgia purposes that and grolsch.
of course i do buy the green bottle for nostalgia purposes that and grolsch.
HB IPA while mashing my RIP Christmas beer exchange for our brew club. Sorry for the dirty glass.
RIS HAHA
Appreciate it!
Yeah, the #3 is certainly there, but you need to look for it. That was a huge relief! While writing recipes for my new series of invert sugar UK ales, I really struggled with the Brown Ale--I always have, it's a tough style! I really wanted to use #2 to keep it light and guzzle-able, but you also need a fair ol' whack of color.
In the end, it worked out when combined with 4oz of Amber and C50/60, 2oz of pale chocolate, and 1oz of Midnight Wheat, the rest is Otter to 1.043. I love brewing in that triangle between Mild, Brown Porter, and Brown Ale. There's a lot of superficial overlap between the styles, but they're also very distinct from each other. I'm finding that #2 and #3 are really useful in this fun, often tricky, triangle.
I think the #3 did a good job of lifting this recipe clear from its neighboring styles. It drinks like it looks (if that makes sense) and it keeps it from tasting like a darkened bitter. With the Amber and only a pinch of pale chocolate and no brown malt, it has lots of breathing room from Brown Porter (the primary problem I used to run into). Intermeshed with that is the #3, sorta tying it all together. It's kinda functioning like the bass guitar in this recipe, you don't hear it until it stops playing.
I've never been very impressed with my UK Browns. And while I'm sure I'll mess around with this one, I feel like I've finally got a pretty solid foundation.
Here's a picture of it in better light, and its sister ale, a Dark Mild--also with 1lb of #3
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That sucks! That's some BS. That packaging was made to deceive folks like us. If it makes you feel any better, I would've fallen for it, too.I bought a 12 pack of these when I was at a big liquor store when I was in the big city the other day. I thought I was buying some fancy German beer I’ve never had, but this nasty stuff is brewed 3 hours away in Golden by Coors. It’s going to be hard drinking the other 11.
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Sitting here, waiting for a Zoom meeting to start. It's a 90 min seminar for continuing ed. credit so I can keep my law license. This one is about the intellectual property issues around psychedelics. No shiat. This one might be fun to watch, as many CLE courses are real snoozers.
I'm having a Guinness Extra Stout for the "show." No 'shrooms for me.
I'm having a Guinness Extra Stout for the "show." No 'shrooms for me.
Wort has cooled and is settling before racking to the fermenter.
Time for a homebrew.
Scottish Ale.
Scottish Ale.
That is amazing!
That is the correct way to handle Zoom seminars. I have a real soft spot for that poor SOB that got caught pleasuring himself during a pointless Zoom meeting during the lockdown. Like everyone else, I laughed...then I thought, "How many meetings have I been in where I thought to myself that my time would be much better served whacking off?" Good on that guy for doing what we've all been thinking. Frankly, I think he's a hero!
Glad you can at least have a nice beer while your time is being wasted.
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I assume most liquor stores are stocked similarly because that’s how I’ve seen it—(domestics, crafts, local crafts, imports (British, German, Mexican)) all separated… that crap was mixed in amongst the Erdingers, Pilsner Urquell’s, Paulaners, Bitburgers, etc.. You’re right, I was tricked.
Edit: it’s quite possible the peon stocking the cooler was tricked too.
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Bitburger/Deschutes collab Zwickl. Nice malt aroma and taste.
HB Pale Ale after unthawing the lift pump that kinda, sorta, keeps our septic system functional and shoveling snow. I’m getting too old for this.
I'm betting it's a misplacement by the employee. Hanlon's Razor and all. Still sucks that it looks like something exotic, when it's not.
HB Vermont Maple Porter. First pint out of the keg.
HB stout
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I worked my way through college on a beer delivery truck and all of our accounts stipulated that we didn't just dump the beer in the fridge, we also had to stock the beer. No biggie--nice and cool in the summer and nice and warm in the winter.
It was our distribution company's salesman that was responsible for re-setting an account's shelf space whenever he managed to introduce a new product--ideally by pinching shelf space from Bud or Miller. So I'd wager it was the salesman that slotted it in there.
At least, that's how it worked in Oregon. Not sure what the laws are in Colorado (and I'm sure there are all kinds of laws, none of which make sense) If I had to guess, I would suggest that the product that suckered you was exhaustively designed, marketed, and placed in that cooler to do exactly that. Again, it would've fooled me.
There's every chance that I'm wrong but, having had a glimpse behind the curtain, I don't think I am.
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orionol73
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“Your Cousin from Boston” – well, he said it, not me…. The Oktoberfest sign means it’s OK TO BEER FEST! I just have one question then – Why does Sam Adams continue to Anglicize the word Oktoberfest down to Octoberfest? Notes to brewer – we all call these beers Oktoberfest. Please fix this in 2024, this just looks dumb.
I started keeping notes on beers about 5 years ago. In 2019, Sam Adams had a really dialed in Oktoberfest/(Octoberfest) beer. The next years 2020, 2021, and 2022 it seemed very cloying and sweet, not really to style… and I didn’t have Covid either, that’s the way it was.
I’m glad to report that some of that sweetness has disappeared for the 2023 season. We still have a very malty beer with a strong caramel note. So for 2024, let’s hope they roll back that caramel by reducing the C-60 or whatever mash schedule they are using that might be causing this. Oktoberfests (in this case this is more of a Märzen, not a Festbier) usually aren’t this “caramely” shall we say. Also, I’d up the SRM a few clicks, this thing is nearly as dark as a Dunkel. Make it Orange color, not Mahoghany.
Overall much better this year. 5.3% ABV, fantastic head, small amount of lacing, I’m OK with the $11.99 this sixer this cost me – glad it’s not so sweet. Prost! Or shall we Anglicize that into “PROESTE”? I think not!
I started keeping notes on beers about 5 years ago. In 2019, Sam Adams had a really dialed in Oktoberfest/(Octoberfest) beer. The next years 2020, 2021, and 2022 it seemed very cloying and sweet, not really to style… and I didn’t have Covid either, that’s the way it was.
I’m glad to report that some of that sweetness has disappeared for the 2023 season. We still have a very malty beer with a strong caramel note. So for 2024, let’s hope they roll back that caramel by reducing the C-60 or whatever mash schedule they are using that might be causing this. Oktoberfests (in this case this is more of a Märzen, not a Festbier) usually aren’t this “caramely” shall we say. Also, I’d up the SRM a few clicks, this thing is nearly as dark as a Dunkel. Make it Orange color, not Mahoghany.
Overall much better this year. 5.3% ABV, fantastic head, small amount of lacing, I’m OK with the $11.99 this sixer this cost me – glad it’s not so sweet. Prost! Or shall we Anglicize that into “PROESTE”? I think not!
HB Hazy IPA. Nectaron and McKenzie dry hop!
Love them here they,re BOGO 8.99 4/pk
Drinking Bells 2 hearted while brewing a WCIPA
Pre gaming the Mott The Lessor release this weekend. This is at least a year old. Maybe two. Cultivator Rye by Tributary
Quick 9 holes after work as the days get shorter. Just made it on before sunset. Two holes to go after these pix
Quick 9 holes after work as the days get shorter. Just made it on before sunset. Two holes to go after these pix
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HB Old Speckled Hen “clone”. After my Thursday night run/drink event. Usually no leftovers, but here we are
HB Chocolate Porter
Nights are getting darker
Beautiful color
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Beautiful color
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hahaThis was pretty damn good!
Thanks to Untapped didn't realize it was Armand day. Well I have a baby bottle that is only 5 years old. Expires exactly in 15. Beautiful funk. Cheers to Armand
orionol73
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Unfortunately we're lacking some head tonight but boy she does taste good!
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