What are you drinking now?

[BongoYodeler]

Earlier, one final taste and carb check of my HB coconut flavored milk stout I'll be pouring this weekend. Our HB Club will be serving our beers on Saturday at a beerfest alongside Firestone Walker, Sierra Nevada, Ballast Point, Green Cheek, and a few dozen other California breweries.

And now, a FW Cosmic Crusher. Didn't realize this is 9.5%. Packs a little punch.

 

[MaxStout]

I get the "are you human" message on my Android phone, but not my PC. Strange.

 

[BongoYodeler]

I noticed Cloudflare now has an "are you human?" check

Same question I ask myself first thing every morning when my feet hit the floor.

 

[ClaudiusB]

"www.homebrewtalk.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding."
This is one of two messages I get. Are you human I get too.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

So, was on my way to buy some Irish stout but then got sidetracked with this awesomeness

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A much better choice!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Yesterday naturally…

 

[Brizzo]

Yum

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Duck Dude is getting lonely. Sorry but not yet little buddy.

HB Helles

 

[Rish]

A couple of tasty Irish brews I couldn't post yesterday.

 

[Rish]

Today - HB wheat

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Hope the cauliflower crust pizza turns out as good as this hazy. May have found a local'ish store bought favorite.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Now that amateur night has come and gone (that's what my drummer used to call it) I can get back in the game.

Speaking of amateurs, I forgot to take a pretty picture of this. It's my Vienna that I brewed in September. Sadly, the floater is starting to suck yeast. I'll miss this one. Thanks again to the folks that inspired me to dust off this recipe last Fall.

 

[Rish]

Slight sweetness, malt, banana, citrus. Tasty but I prefer the original.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Kegged a Czech pils, drank a tin barn and hb bier de garde.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Floating dip tubes are funny things. The next pour is still sucking yeast, but much better. That there's some witchcraft, some real devil stuff going on in our kegs.

 

[Beermeister32]

On the road today in Sacramento, testing the limits of my Pilsner search. Obviously we are paying these fat government bureaucrats too much. There’s like 200 to 300 restaurants and eateries for every supermarket! Now I get it!

Sudwerk Brewing is a local favorite. Boldly stated on the can - “Brewery of the Year” at the GABF. Now that’s saying something!

The People’s Pilsner is a 5.3% ABV Bohemian style Pilsner with a whopping 35 IBU. I have to say when I was drinking Czech Pilsners, there wasn’t anything in that range, in fact most were a bit mellow, maybe 20-25 IBU. Still a good beer, the hopping is a bit assertive. Maybe that’s what makes it the People’s Pils- those folks have tastebuds tempered by all those hoppy IPAs out there!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Spec's had a few of these. They've probably been sitting warm but thought I'd give them a shot. Only 6 more months for the next batch.

 

[Beermeister32]

Back to back! Sudwerk Pils up against the original Bohemian Pilsner!

Pilsner Urquell is definitely more smooth and mellow. I think I need to stack these up and drink them in ascending order - hoppier and hoppier and hoppier!

The Sudwerk was voted Gold at GABF for Bohemian Pilsners. I think this has to do with a drift in human preferences toward slightly hoppier domestic Pilsners. The Pilsner Urquell is the benchmark, yet the Sudwerk seems a bit more lively and bright. Both are great beers, Enjoy!

 

[TwistedGray]

Working through @orionol73 beer

 

[Pehlman17]

 

[Brewsmith]

Irish stew over potatoes. With the beer in the stew.

Apparently this didn’t get posted yesterday

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

2 months past enjoy by date... still good.

 

[MaxStout]

Poured the last bottle of Golden Monkey. Really enjoying this beer, need to get some more. And Duvel, been a while.

I keep wanting to call it brass monkey, though it's not that cold out.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Now hb neipa, on my last keg if this one, it won 2 first place ribbons in 2 different comps. Not a great picture at all..

Edit, went outside, cloudy day bit still a better Pic.

 

[Rish]

Mamie Taylor cocktail. HM ginger beer, 2 oz Scotch, 3/4 oz lime juice. I didn't have high expectations but this is pretty tasty and refreshing. Scotch is more subtle than I thought it would be, works well with the gb.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

@Rish I've seen some hm ginger beer recipes here and I've done a few, they turned out ok but missing something... do you back sweeten at all? Seems if I add a touch of simple syrup it tastes closer to what I expect.. but maybe the yeast I used dried it out to much.. last one I grated ginger fresh and steeped and strained it, boiled some dextrose and added a touch of dme hoping for more body.. don't recall the yeast I used though.

OT.. same beer as posted above.. carry on.

 

[TBC]

 

[camonick]

HB Irish Stout.
I need this keg to empty to make room for 2 others that’ll be needing to be added soon.
Sláinte

 

[BeerNsteadofH2O]

Raging Red Irish Red, a recipe from member Mystic Meads..
6 days in the bottle, but still tasty. I use corn sugar for carbonation.
A little malty on the nose, with just a hint of the wild flower honey I used on the finish, cant wait for it to age! ( that's why I'm having one tonight- pun intended)

 

[firerat]

Poured the last bottle of Golden Monkey. Really enjoying this beer, need to get some more. And Duvel, been a while.

I keep wanting to call it brass monkey, though it's not that cold out.
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I love the victory monkey beers!! I just finished off the witty monkey. The sour monkey is ok and I never had the berry one yet.

HB kveik IPA. Did this one no chill and it's super hazy. Don't care, made beer. First homebrew in almost 2 years!!

 

[Rish]

@Rish I've seen some hm ginger beer recipes here and I've done a few, they turned out ok but missing something... do you back sweeten at all? Seems if I add a touch of simple syrup it tastes closer to what I expect.. but maybe the yeast I used dried it out to much.. last one I grated ginger fresh and steeped and strained it, boiled some dextrose and added a touch of dme hoping for more body.. don't recall the yeast I used though.

OT.. same beer as posted above.. carry on.

I didn't backsweeten this one but have used monk fruit in the past that I liked and will do again. I'm thinking I'll use some wheat dme in the next batch.

 

[Rish]

SN festbier

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

West Coast goodness...

 

[Beermeister32]

Still in Sacramento hitting the local Pilsner brews, and I get this one shooting out everywhere, replete with chunks of yeast throughout and in the head. Totally cloudy. Not my idea of a funster.

See folks, Pilsner is a premium thing. It needs to be brewed and packaged with precision. On the commercial side, if the thing needs filtering, then filter it already.

This is the great thing about the German brews. Perfection. This one not so much. Dzüngle Premium Pilsner is brewed at a finishing ABV of 4.4%, definitely putting it in that session beer category, that is if you actually decide to go through the shooting can and messy cleanup again.

King Cong Brewing Co., Sacramento. Flavor is fine. Presentation is really lacking. Work on it fellas !

 

[Beermeister32]

Turlock is mid-state California, known more for almonds and poultry, less for beers. Close enough to Sacramento for their beers to show up here, Dust Bowl Pils by Dust Bowl Brewing is a fine entry into this market.

5.1% ABV, this stovepipe is advertised as “Crisp Pilsner”. That “crisp” word is drifting into the brewing vernacular BTW!

I guess crisp is subjective. This is a nice brew, a little fruity and estery for the Beermeister32 taste buds. Fruity and estery is sort of the diametric opposite of crisp in my book! Otherwise a fine beer, a bit more like a Golden Ale or Kolsch to me. Enjoy!

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

2 ounces of Elijah Craig "Small Batch" bourbon on ice... It's very nice! </borat>

 

[pshankstar]

Before leaving Philly on Tuesday I stopped at Iron Hill Brewing for a flight and lunch.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

A sample of my pish wasser light. Time to cold crash.

 

[hout17]

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

A local blonde ale, not bad, gotta crush this.. I'm on a truncated timetable.