What are you drinking now?

[ThirstyPawsHB]

...and 70s...

Edit, going to be one of those days so yogurt/yeast it is. Told wife about it but she doesn't believe me. Com'on SCIENCE!!

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Hb neipa, cleaned car after a weekend trip to Pittsburgh for a family even at my great uncles house. Tree fell before the day before we left so had the generator powering the house while we were gone.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

On to the next place… Mexican lager

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Another stop.
Gruit.

 

[hout17]

Some of my HB 1971 Bodds clone attempt.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Watching women's BB now and I don't want to hear a damn thing!

Go USA! Need some fruit so HB 9% Raspberry Hard Lemonade.

 

[z-bob]

Watching women's BB now and I don't want to hear a damn thing!

Go USA! Need some fruit so HB 9% Raspberry Hard Lemonade.

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I'm intrigued. Is that a sparkling lemon wine (dry) with raspberry syrup added when you serve it? I've done something like that before with a 8.5% ABV strawberry wine sweetened with a little strawberry syrup.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Maple porter

 

[MaxStout]

Speaking of hard lemonade...
Trying the bottle of 8.7% HM that @pshankstar sent me. Very smooth, just enough sweetness, finishes clean. Delicious!

Care to share your recipe?

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

I'm intrigued. Is that a sparkling lemon wine (dry) with raspberry syrup added when you serve it? I've done something like that before with a 8.5% ABV strawberry wine sweetened with a little strawberry syrup.

Give me a bit and I'll PM you recipe. Ask @camonick and @MaxStout about the end results.

 

[camonick]

Give me a bit and I'll PM you recipe. Ask @camonick and @MaxStout about the end results.

I’m actually gathering ingredients to make that again very soon.

 

[hout17]

Having another HB Bodds why not?

The Bodds is a nice break from working on an engine swap for our Subaru. A little shadetree mechanic action going on over here.

 

[Rish]

AL brewed red lager.

 

[Beermeister32]

Last chapter we were enjoying the pleasure of Weihenstephaner, my favorite brewery. Today I was planning on doing the same with one of my other favorite breweries (hey, there are dozens!), Ayinger!

Today’s story takes us to another place and another time. I originally was going to show you the big beautiful 1L Maßkrug of Ayinger Oktoberfest-Marzen. These baby bottles in question were actually purchased by me at a bottle shop I hadn’t been to in over 10 years. They were on a shelf and had dust on them – Mistake #1. I was talking beer with the guy at the counter and not paying attention to what I should have been doing, which is evaluating the storage condition of these beers, Mistake #2. The guy at the counter then ran off and retrieved me a can of IPA he liked and thought he’d give me one for a freebie. I didn’t realized it was probably his guilty conscious, I was buying TOO OLD beer that had been there pre-Covid, I’m sure. Maybe pre-Desert Storm, who knows? Mistake #3!!!!

Se here he’s assuaging his guilt by giving me a free can of IPA. Gee thanks, should I check the date on that one too? I get these to the Beermeister32 evaluation labs and whoa! OLD BEER, tastes terrible, warm storage, turned brown, light-struck, who the heck knows. Luckily I had another recent 500 ml bottle in the beer storage cold locker, so my day isn’t completely ruined. Ayinger needs no introduction, but this just goes to show these can be somewhat perishable and like fine wines, they need the proper storage. Not sitting warm for 5 dusty years on some guys’ shelf under the fluorescent lights while he’s peeling off the Calendar pages, year by year!

The new stuff is good. Watch me dump $9 – that’s nine bucks worth of braun alt babyflaschen bier right down the drain! Prost…

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Time for some 95F pool..

 

[pshankstar]

I enjoyed the sour and Belgian beers earlier before running errands. While I was out I picked up ingredients to make more limoncello.
Enjoyed the TH while making the limoncello and then lost the tip of my finger.
Onto the Prison City as dinner is cooking and help dull the pain.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

USA toasted the competition in medals but still tied with China for golds. Welp 2028 LA is around the corner. If I'm still working then you have permission to raze me....

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Finger tips are overrated, haha, no fun though.. latest hb neipa, still green but gonna be a good one.

 

[mac_1103]

USA toasted the competition in medals but still tied with China for golds.

We only care about silver when we've already won the gold. We only care about bronze when we've already won the gold and the silver.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

We only care about silver when we've already won the gold. We only care about bronze when we've already won the gold and the silver.

To be honest I'm not completely following your logic. But that might be the yogurt/yeast talking!

 

[Rish]

Hydro sample of ginger beer. It's finished. Tasty but kinda bland even though I used my usual 1/2# of fresh ginger root per gallon. Forgot to add lemon juice to fv so maybe that'll help when I bottle. I've seen where people use some ginger powder and wonder if that would boost the flavor in the right way.

 

[camonick]

This is what happens when you run out of homebrew.

 

[orionol73]

 

[orionol73]

 

[fourfarthing]

We lost a friend today. The last Harry comes out.

 

[pshankstar]

We lost a friend today. The last Harry comes out.

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To Harry and all other four legged family members who we lose too soon. Thinking of you and your family @fourfarthing , it’s never easy. Cheers brother to all the wonderful memories Harry brought you all!

Also, virtually joining @ThirstyPawsHB who’s taking a small hiatus from HBT with an Other Half beer.

 

[Rish]

Night cap of strawberry jam mead. Just over a year old and the best I've made. Really looking forward to seeing what it's like in a few years.

 

[ClaudiusB]

 

[TwistedGray]

Sonoma for the "weekend" (+bottle of bubbles not pictured)

 

[grampamark]

This is what happens when I run out of homebrew. Lunch beer.

 

[MaxStout]

Another tasty beer from the @pshankstar care package. A nice American lager from Rochester, NY.

 

[Rish]

From Bavaria, delicious hefe, eh, @Beermeister32 ?

 

[Bramling Cross]

My first pour of Australian Sparkling Ale in something like fifteen years? Certainly my first from a keg.

No clue why I stopped brewing this, but I shouldn't have. It's a great summer ale. My recollection of Pride of Ringwood hops was a bit fuzzy going into this brew, but I certainly remember them being decidedly woody. Boy howdy, they are indeed woody! I'm not fond of calling out specific flavors (passion fruit, guava, blaaaaah!) when it comes to hops, but these unambiguously have a strong cedar flavor to them. The cedar flavor in this ale is about as hard to miss as that crunchy thing in your hotdog.

I'm regretting the fact that I neither cold crashed, nor fined this ale. It's a bit ugly--but only nine days old. Still, it's nice to get reacquainted with an old friend.

 

[Rish]

HM brown sugar cider. Pretty good. 8.2%

 

[Beermeister32]

Working on bids tonight, that means keeping my head clear with diet beer. Tonight’s sipper is Coors Edge, their 41 calorie, non-alcoholic brew.

I love trying all these super light and non-alcohol brews. They definitely define the left-end of the scale. Samischlaus on the far right… Zero’s on the left!

Coors Edge has a label with a funny tag line – at least it cracks me up a bit. “Double-Brewed for that Refreshing Taste”!! What the heck does that mean – Oh, now I get it. Brew it first to make the wort. Boil it again after fermentation to drive off the alcohol??? HA!

I’m picking up a touch of a Pear ester on this super lite beer. Maybe that should be a new category – SUPERLITES! Well, it is light, it is refreshing, and I can have as many as I want and not affect my bids. Gotta watch “them numbers,” they mean something!

 

[grampamark]

Odell Sippin’ Pretty fruited sour, found in the back of the fridge. Should have left it there…

 

[camonick]

A beer from a Denver brewery. They specialize in German style beers. A variety 12 pack had 4 different styles. This is a good Kolsch.
Happy to report both my fermenters containing a Vienna lager and Irish stout are bubbling like crazy… homebrew incoming in a few more weeks.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Buddy brought me a crowler from his vacay. Wife and I split it after visiting our garden.

 

[camonick]

Called a “summer lager”. Described as a Munich style export lager. Tastes kind of like a Helles with a little more bitterness than I’m used to.
Edit: Untappd lists it as a Dortmunder which has “the malt-forward flavor and sweetness of a German-style helles, but the bitter base of a German-style pilsener.”

 

[Beekeeper]

HB 1D American Wheat