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Love the beer presentation and the Label, well done!
Built a blank off for the unused chimney while deciding just to remove it. Also for an early Valentine's gift, built a surprise outside clothes hanger for the wife. Thought about new vacuum bags but I think this will save electricity. A much better gift!
This is sooo good!!
This is sooo good!!
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There it is again, that taste. Ayinger has to be one of my favorite breweries, but again that flavor is a rough ride.
Bräuweiss is brewed at 5.1% ABV and is another chapter in the long story of Bavarian Hefe-Weizen beers. As much as I love Ayinger, I want to love this beer. I just can’t wrap my head around these Hefe-Weizens. It’s another beer that makes me sad!
Doggone-it! I’m a beer guy, I’m supposed to love nearly every batch that’s brewed. That spiced-up clove and phenol taste really hits me like a brick. I have to say however, a lot like the Paulaner I had last week, the farther you voyage into the pint, the less pronounced it gets.
Now I’m half-way done with it and it’s getting better. I love the way our tastes adapt to a beer, get it cold enough and drink it enough and you just don’t notice it. Sort of like tuning out a spouse – You just don’t hear ‘em anymore!
OK, I’m two fingers to the end of this pint. Now how do I feel? It’s better! Not my fav, but it’s a whole lot better at the end of the pint than the first gulp. Prost!
Bräuweiss is brewed at 5.1% ABV and is another chapter in the long story of Bavarian Hefe-Weizen beers. As much as I love Ayinger, I want to love this beer. I just can’t wrap my head around these Hefe-Weizens. It’s another beer that makes me sad!
Doggone-it! I’m a beer guy, I’m supposed to love nearly every batch that’s brewed. That spiced-up clove and phenol taste really hits me like a brick. I have to say however, a lot like the Paulaner I had last week, the farther you voyage into the pint, the less pronounced it gets.
Now I’m half-way done with it and it’s getting better. I love the way our tastes adapt to a beer, get it cold enough and drink it enough and you just don’t notice it. Sort of like tuning out a spouse – You just don’t hear ‘em anymore!
OK, I’m two fingers to the end of this pint. Now how do I feel? It’s better! Not my fav, but it’s a whole lot better at the end of the pint than the first gulp. Prost!
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HB ipa
Another Brooklyn winner.
I was gone for 9 days .. no service, great vacay, and I was 7 pages behind on this thread, sorry guys I skipped ahead a few.. now sitting with a hb dry Irish stout on nitro to go alongside a 3lb smoked venison meatloaf. Cheers!
Secret Santa Hoof Hearted BBA imperial stout conditioned on Madagascar vanilla, 14%! Bourbon, oak, vanilla, chocolate, a hint of coconut, full mouth feel, some sweetness, not boozy. Man, this is good! Thanks, Santa!
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It's "Don't repeat a style night"....6 minimum! Who's in?
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Half of my latest bitter. Needs another week or so to condition. Pretty good though. I’m back to wlp002 and I think that’s where I will stay.
#6 HB Mead... getting better? 14% so who cares! 
Its befuddling We can get Brooklyn brews but Parish from Louisiana? Nope. East of LA was everywhere. Talked to our Hippy Dippy supermarket beer dude to straighten that $hit out!
Need to mention how perfect this night is. 75F. Clear skies. If I wasn't half tanked would've gotten the tele out for Jupiter/mars/Orion.
Need to mention how perfect this night is. 75F. Clear skies. If I wasn't half tanked would've gotten the tele out for Jupiter/mars/Orion.
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Wife and neighbor (super long time friend) went out for my wife's late birthday gift. Ended up getting tanked. I drove to the VERY local sushi place to take the friend and my wife home. So, wife didn't like the jeep was left in the parking lot.
This 57yr old ex athletic kinda dude jogged down to the sushi place to get the vehicle. But, obviously, thirsty and hungry, so order stuff
OT, Negori Sake, Don Julio 1842 tequila and a passion fruit Sake while munching on a roll.
Back at the house with everyone safe. Didn't take my phone... sorry!
Wife and neighbor (super long time friend) went out for my wife's late birthday gift. Ended up getting tanked. I drove to the VERY local sushi place to take the friend and my wife home. So, wife didn't like the jeep was left in the parking lot.
This 57yr old ex athletic kinda dude jogged down to the sushi place to get the vehicle. But, obviously, thirsty and hungry, so order stuff
OT, Negori Sake, Don Julio 1842 tequila and a passion fruit Sake while munching on a roll.
Back at the house with everyone safe. Didn't take my phone... sorry!
A nice Tripel this afternoon.
Land Grant Vienna lager from Secret Santa. Light, crisp, bready, a hint of caramel. Tasty beer.
You gonna drop your nuts in there and eat them at the end, like a maraschino cherry in a Pina colada!?!? Sounds like they they would pair nicely... even though there's 3 of them. OT hb dry Irish stout, no pic, feeling lazy, maybe the next one.
This hazy pairs well with my restaurant leftover fish and rice.
There it is again, that characteristic Hefe-Weizen spicy clove flavor!
I guess I suffer from what most men do – when we’re stuck, our wives tell us just to go ask someone – we dudes plow forward like we know it all and don’t ask anybody. Hey, we’re not stuck!
It’s not working on this Hefe-Weizen journey though. Today, I had to go do some study and see what the heck it is that I don’t like in these. They almost all have that “twang” to some degree; We know Hefe-Weizen is the #2 in popularity in Germany – and we know this characteristic just isn’t ringing my bell!
So the culprit we find in producing the spicy clove character in Weißbier or Hefe-Weizen is 4-vinyl guaiacol, which is produced by a handful of Bavarian Hefe-Weizen yeasts. Which means these breweries are doing it to us on purpose! Don’t order that one in your Yeast of the Month Club!
Anyway, enough of you like this abuse that I’ll continue writing about it. Weihenstephaner needs no introduction here – I’ve said it before, this is the most on time, pitch-perfect brewery out there. If I had to drink one, I’d pick this one. Since 1040, God only knows how long these Hefe-Weizen yeasts have been bouncing around in use there. 5.4% ABV, it is another one that’s DEFINITELY a lot better at the bottom of the glass, after my taste blindness has kicked in Große Zeit! Prost!
I guess I suffer from what most men do – when we’re stuck, our wives tell us just to go ask someone – we dudes plow forward like we know it all and don’t ask anybody. Hey, we’re not stuck!
It’s not working on this Hefe-Weizen journey though. Today, I had to go do some study and see what the heck it is that I don’t like in these. They almost all have that “twang” to some degree; We know Hefe-Weizen is the #2 in popularity in Germany – and we know this characteristic just isn’t ringing my bell!
So the culprit we find in producing the spicy clove character in Weißbier or Hefe-Weizen is 4-vinyl guaiacol, which is produced by a handful of Bavarian Hefe-Weizen yeasts. Which means these breweries are doing it to us on purpose! Don’t order that one in your Yeast of the Month Club!
Anyway, enough of you like this abuse that I’ll continue writing about it. Weihenstephaner needs no introduction here – I’ve said it before, this is the most on time, pitch-perfect brewery out there. If I had to drink one, I’d pick this one. Since 1040, God only knows how long these Hefe-Weizen yeasts have been bouncing around in use there. 5.4% ABV, it is another one that’s DEFINITELY a lot better at the bottom of the glass, after my taste blindness has kicked in Große Zeit! Prost!
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I shared this with 3 other homebrewers I met in my area last Thursday for a little meet and greet beer tasting and they loved it.
I shared this with 3 other homebrewers I met in my area last Thursday for a little meet and greet beer tasting and they loved it.
Uh huh, .. was thinking chestnut but yeah, buckeyes... can't say I've ever had them..
Pic this time, I slightly overcarbed before switching it to nitro, still decent cascade and good final product. Phone makes the glass look wonky, it's not nearly that tapered.
Wasn't planning on drinking today, but the only damn thing that makes stupid flipping yard work even halfway bearable is the lawnmower beer afterwards. Although..being real, I would have gladly skipped the beer today if it meant not doing the yard work. +1000
HB WCIPA
Well...if I have one...I have 13..not really.
I've got one more of these and they're getting a little long in the tooth. Taste has evolved, and not in a good way.
I've got one more of these and they're getting a little long in the tooth. Taste has evolved, and not in a good way.
Yardwork, nope not here, not for a couple more months. But I dealt with people at work after being off for 10 days, my longest vacation in 17 years with the company, so I'll have a beer or actually this is the 3rd hb Irish stout of the evening, improving with each pour and at 4.2% iirc it's not gonna kill me.
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El Jefe Brewing Company
In NJ for some onboarding and found a four pack of GRIMM at the liquor store.
I don't suggest you try them either. They are poisonous I have been told. I think you would have to eat quite a few, but don't quote me on it...
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A quick read shows that to be so if they are raw, removing them from the husk and roasting them changes that. But again I have no experience, just read it on the interwebs so it must be true... maybe Rish knows.
HB imperial stout
HB Bo Pils ish …
First time using Wyeast 2124. 4 weeks total when kegged. Lagered at 34 f for 4 weeks. Managed to drop the keg transferring to the kegerator.
First pours had that weird (to me) Hefe phenolic thing. Subtle but… wrong. I haven’t brewed a dumper in years but thought for sure this would be one.
I’ve pulled 10-12 pints so far. Been 9 days since the last pour.
Today? Weird/Hefe/phenolic taste is TOTALLY gone. Or maybe I have Covid
Great beer.
First time using Wyeast 2124. 4 weeks total when kegged. Lagered at 34 f for 4 weeks. Managed to drop the keg transferring to the kegerator.
First pours had that weird (to me) Hefe phenolic thing. Subtle but… wrong. I haven’t brewed a dumper in years but thought for sure this would be one.
I’ve pulled 10-12 pints so far. Been 9 days since the last pour.
Today? Weird/Hefe/phenolic taste is TOTALLY gone. Or maybe I have Covid
Great beer.
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HB ordinary bitter.
Followed by a HB London porter.
Followed by a HB London porter.
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