What are you drinking now?

[Beermeister32]

Old Prague knocks it out of the ballpark with this totally old-school, 11-Plato dark lager. This is the way lagers were before the introduction of pale malts in the 1800’s! Your every-day drinkers!

Super easy going down the gullet, Old Prague Traditional Recipe is a super-clean 4.6% ABV dark lager - a lighter tasting lager, not a heavy dark presentation. Close your eyes and it’s not too different from a Golden Lager, just a teeny-weenie bit roastier, and not by much. Really delicious, this could have been a proto-pizza beer if I were blindfolded and transported back to the 1970’s! Great to dump it all in - fill your mouth and both cheeks full of brew!

Neither malt or hop forward, this is a totally balanced dark lager, a great one for drinkers a bit unsure of those “darker beers”. Very easy going down, I should have bought more. What was I thinking? !!!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

This bar use to have a very good rotating tap list. It no longer rotated but as long as it has

Lunch

Fiddlehead

 

[bwible]

HB Irish Red Lager

 

[bwible]

I didn’t realize something had happened to seanjwalker1. That’s terrible news to me.

I went back pages and really didn’t find anything either. Always sorry to hear sad news about one of our own.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

I don't remember interacting with seanjwalker1 much, but if something has happened here is a Mad Elf in respect (sorry no old fizzywig).

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Hottub beers after viewing the grs on Jupiter, a little of orion nebula and a few other gems, some meteors as well, new moon nights are fun, and to warm up after was nice.

 

[PberBob]

Really tasty HB American Pale Ale with Nelson and Amarillo

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Starter is spinning. Not sure how viable this slurry is from a previous batch but hopefully it is good for a brew years day batch. If not I have few packs of dry yeast in reserve.
Until then I found Hopslam back while at the store:

 

[RumOnTheDocks]

Enjoying a HB Pastry Chocolate orange stout while cooking chilli for the New Year party.

 

[RumOnTheDocks]

Continuing with something interesting. Makgeolli with chestnut.
Makgeolli is a slightly sparkling Korean rice wine. It's slightly viscous and tastes slightly sweet and tangy, the chestnut aroma is very pleasant and also quite prevalent in the aftertaste.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Go Big10...

Have to go to a double grandkid birthday party today so have to stay a bit sober.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Sadly even should they pull this off today they will get no credit for it. The narrative will come out that Bama didn't care or try. If Bama wins, it will be look we beat you and didn't care...

(And I still might be a bit sore after the effort put fourth in the game last month, check in with me tomorrow evening to see how I'm doing)

 

[RumOnTheDocks]

Melon ball in questionable glassware, well at least quantity wise.

 

[Dgallo]

Drinking some of my local brewery’s double west coast ipa. It’s great. Malty with biscuit notes but bright and dank hop character. They nailed the old school character

 

[NotSure]

Finishing one of the last of my HB Garden Hop Ale. This is the 2nd time I've used the hops in our garden that came with the house and it came out great. I'm guessing they're East Kent Goldings. I also have some Cascades going that I planted, which I made a green hop with a few months ago.
For this years EKG batch, I decided at the last minute I didn't want to bottle too much, so I boiled for 2-hours, which gave it a bit of a darker hue. Used Maris Otter and a tiny bit of Roasted Barley. Nottingham yeast. Put the (mostly) dried hops in at 30 minutes and at 5 minutes. 5.7% ABV.

 

[Rish]

Nice dunkel

 

[Beermeister32]

Continuing onward with the Austrian, Czech and Swiss beer tastings, today we have yet another Czech lager, PakaPramen by Nova Paka Brewery, in Nova Paka, Czech Republic.

PakaPramen comes at you lightly, as a 4% ABV beer should. I guess talking Czech lagers, we should be talking degrees Plato, so this would be about a 10% Plato beer. Saaz hops predominate and at 4% ABV, this is an easy drinking lager.

Now onto the packaging – I ‘gotta tell ya, I did pick up a slight amount of skunk on the front end. Not a lot, but some. Maybe a 5% skunker. Tastebuds are funny things – I think they adapt very quickly and then don’t pick up abnormalities to the taste environment – kind of like smoke beers. At first you taste the smoke, then it diminishes quickly as you adapt to it. So it is with skunking, you notice the off-aroma and taste predominantly at first, then it lets up. I’m near the bottom of this stein, and I’m not picking it up at all any more. When I started I did notice it. The main culprit here is the greenish-light brown colored Euro glass.

I know a lot of brewers use that glass, probably had to be dragged into doing it away from the green. I commend them. It is a good first step. Problem is – STILL - this glass isn’t UV-proof, and the sunshine is still getting in. Definitely not the “Sunshine Of Your Love!!!”

So let’s all look at using some Weihenstephaner or Ayinger-quality brown glass, eh? We love you guys, we love your beer. Your glass bottles? Uhhhhh, not so much. Otherwise great beer!

 

[beermanpete]

 

[Rish]

I went back pages and really didn’t find anything either. Always sorry to hear sad news about one of our own.

It's posted in General Chit Chat. I should have put a link.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/seanjwalker1.735158/

 

[beermanpete]

 

[Rish]

This is a big tasty beer. Bourbon barrel, roasty, caramel, 11%. Delish.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Before the BD party South, our granddaughter we're in care of came down with the flu. Just trying to chill and watch a game..is that so hard?

 

[BongoYodeler]

Before the BD party South, our granddaughter we're in care of came down with the flu. Just trying to chill and watch a game..is that so hard?

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It's that time of year. Be careful. A couple days before Christmas our granddaughter came down with the flu, type A. After a few days of fever and generally feeling rotten it settled in her lungs and she developed pneumonia. She's been on antibiotics for a few days, and now she's feeling quite a bit better. We're heading there tomorrow to finally celebrate Christmas.

 

[whoaru99]

 

[beermanpete]

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

This is the last one from a 30 month old batch, I usually keep a few for a year to compare notes from first to last, I figure New years eve was as good as any for a test, this is a BJCP 13A sweet stout..first sip tells me she aged well, I notice the choclate and bitterness more now than my original notes from when it was green..good thing I've got a new batch in a fermentor.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

To the cellar. Some serious sediment on this one

 

[TexasTea]

Enjoying one of my many brew related Christmas Gifts (Beer Chemistry glasses- set of 2 -each glass has different compounds)- the perfect gift for drunken Chemists who brew.



Left-just drank one of the remaining few Block Party Amber Ale extract kit brews. I'm trying to kill em all in 2024.
Right- Big Basin Amber Ale, from pg 396 in Palmers book "How to Brew". I like this one a lot. bottled up 51 of em last night so I don't run dry.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

This is a big tasty beer. Bourbon barrel, roasty, caramel, 11%. Delish. View attachment 865699

Dm me if you want to try the "French Toast Bastard ". I have a few sitting hoping cloying sweetness softens over time.
In the meantime, happy new year all! Here is a bottle that I have sat on for a few years. 14% abv barrel aged barleywine bottled on my wife's birthday. The wolf's ridge barleywine is one of my favorite!

 

[camonick]

Before the BD party South, our granddaughter we're in care of came down with the flu. Just trying to chill and watch a game..is that so hard?

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Sorry to hear that… I’m laid up at home with the same thing I think. Haven’t felt this crummy in a long time. Watching Star wars and trying to enjoy this Kolsch from a variety 12 pack that I can’t really taste because my nose is so plugged up.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Two glasses of toasted with dinner earlier, both were dirty.

 

[buckinin]

Happy New Year, everyone!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Ready for 2025, have a happy!

 

[pshankstar]

Happy New Year everyone!

 

[tdf]

‘21 - ‘24 holiday stout vertical. 2 bottles, a can, and a draft pour. 3 imperial stouts and the 12 Beers of Christmas spiced stout from ‘23. For those who participated, the star anise did not fade at all over the past year .

Happy New Year all!

 

[Knightshade]

Waaaaay too much selection in this cabinet, mostly of the tequila variety which isn’t my jam. (Double cabbing above is overflowing) Sticking with the bottle of Kaniche XO I brought. Not my fave, but not a total swing and miss either.

Happy New Year all!!

 

[Mr. Vern]

Third day in Germany and I am already rapid firing the Ya’s. The Germans set it off on NYE!! Fireworks for hours. In Cologne for 2 days now so it’s Lager time (Yes we had kolsch with dinner, natürlisch!)

 

[MaxStout]

View attachment 865763Happy New Year everyone!

I like the boat cleats on the flight board. I'm totally stealing that idea for the next one I make.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

This is mediocre, but a good post brewday beer, made a dry Irish stout, projected OG was 1.049.. well I guess I did something right.

 

[RCope]

HB Superdelic Session IPA while watching some football. Happy New Year!