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El Jefe Brewing Company
One of many while finishing carb rebuild on the Model A.
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I pressure transferred my latest ipa to the dry hop keg where the corny keg hop bong did its thing. Only second time using it but it's worked flawlessly both times.
Also, first time using Spectrum hop oil, (Bru-1), added it towards the end of fermentation. Seemed to work fine, the hydrometer sample tasted really good.
Also, first time using Spectrum hop oil, (Bru-1), added it towards the end of fermentation. Seemed to work fine, the hydrometer sample tasted really good.
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2.6% lager. Been on a bit of a health kick, so reducing overall volume. I have also been drinking low alcohol beers. I brewed this one. Pale malt and caramalt ( 15% caramalt, the rest pale ), S189.
It's much better than i expected and will play around with it more, though not too much. I don't use much crystal malt at all, so when i saw caramalt used in higher %ages for light beer ( 15%+ ) i was worried, but its a very mild flavor, and pleasant.
Next one i might keep the same, but try S23, as i find S189 can be a little plain jane.
Still, i'm quite happy with it. Will be good for summer.
It's the creepy label isn't it? That would scary off the trick or treaters at Halloween!
Thanks and you're correct. Cheep beer to brew for the brutal Central Texas summer..err spring and fall...hum and winter months.
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Looks like a girl I dated in high school.
The last bottle of the HM raspberry hard lemonade.
So swim season officially began this weekend with all the grandkids but Papa needed pool to warm a couple more degrees. Between the last swim in November and now earliest in mid-March, kinda strange, both are our records. Can't think of anything that could cause this..
Cheers to year round swimming in 3-5yrs! Duck Dude is happy. WCIPA
Cheers to year round swimming in 3-5yrs! Duck Dude is happy. WCIPA
For some reason the title speaks to me. Pale ale from a local brewery
HB brown
Here we have another award winner with more crazy-can graphics. Brewery X, out of Anaheim, California comes at us with their 5.2% ABV Battlesnakes Pilsner. Just to make sure all know they take their Pilsners SERIOUSLY at Brewery X, this tasty brew won a Bronze Medal at the Great American Beer Festival in the Bohemian–Style Pilsner Category.
Definitely a nice brew, this beer exemplifies a couple American tendencies I’m seeing. First off is the stylistic drift I mentioned yesterday. Nearly all true Bohemian Pilsners you will encounter have a crystal-clarity to them that is completely abandoned on the American versions. Again, I think the brew crew is so used to doing Hazy IPAs and cloudy Ales that they’re not even picking up the traditional style includes fining, polishing and a clarity like glass.
Second beef is the hopping drift. Now I have to say I love IPAs, yessiree! This however is a Bohemian Pilsner, which means you should expect a very mellow hopping, nothing that jumps out of the glass. This is DEFINITELY a hoppy Pilsner, exceeding even Bavarian Pilsners I’d guess by 10 IBU’s. That makes a very refreshing and tasty brew – not Bohemian Pilsner style though. I think it was Jamil Z. who mentioned something to the effect that the up-hopped versions of various beers were more likely to win medals than the traditional versions in their respective categories.
I’m not a style cop nor do I plan to be, this is a nice brew. If these are going to drift off in other places, maybe they need to begin using the “Pacific Pilsner” moniker we've heard of. The traditional names about half-apply to these beers, I’m detecting a new movement in hopped up, possibly slightly hazy American Pilsners. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! Enjoy!
Definitely a nice brew, this beer exemplifies a couple American tendencies I’m seeing. First off is the stylistic drift I mentioned yesterday. Nearly all true Bohemian Pilsners you will encounter have a crystal-clarity to them that is completely abandoned on the American versions. Again, I think the brew crew is so used to doing Hazy IPAs and cloudy Ales that they’re not even picking up the traditional style includes fining, polishing and a clarity like glass.
Second beef is the hopping drift. Now I have to say I love IPAs, yessiree! This however is a Bohemian Pilsner, which means you should expect a very mellow hopping, nothing that jumps out of the glass. This is DEFINITELY a hoppy Pilsner, exceeding even Bavarian Pilsners I’d guess by 10 IBU’s. That makes a very refreshing and tasty brew – not Bohemian Pilsner style though. I think it was Jamil Z. who mentioned something to the effect that the up-hopped versions of various beers were more likely to win medals than the traditional versions in their respective categories.
I’m not a style cop nor do I plan to be, this is a nice brew. If these are going to drift off in other places, maybe they need to begin using the “Pacific Pilsner” moniker we've heard of. The traditional names about half-apply to these beers, I’m detecting a new movement in hopped up, possibly slightly hazy American Pilsners. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! Enjoy!
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Thank you… Well, it’s nothing special really. The standard 70% 2-row, 20% flaked barley and 10% 500 °L roasted barley recipe found almost everywhere. East Kent Goldings hops for 60 minutes to get around 40ish IBUs. I use Nottingham yeast. I also serve on 75/25 beer gas through a stout faucet.
New Schwarzbier that is the shiz-nits. Tastes good after a long day of work as well as a nice sized grass fire I had to help with.
Success!!! Got into Wunderkammer Biermanufaktur members club. Gerbils were working over time on the Vermont phone lines to finally get me thru. Now an excuse to go fishing up north
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Hb Czech pils from side pull tap. Still needs to carb up some more, but it's getting there and the flavor profile is perfect. Thanks to those that helped in my "help fix my Czech" thread.
Brewery X was at the CCCB festival on Saturday. I stopped by their tent and had a pour of something. It was probably pretty good. Damn my memory of that day is fuzzy.
Well that Czech went quick, 4.2% so whatever.. time to step it up with an 8.6% beaut from treehouse, dddoublegangerrr mmmm.
Very tasty Belgian abbaye ale. Gets better as it warms. I like it!
From the spring 2024 bargain bin.
Outside with a HB ordinary bitter.
Deep ascent IPA
HB wheat
All Season Pils is another California Pilsner, this one released by All Season Brewing Company in Los Angeles. Hey, I thought LA was out of water? !!!
This Pilsner is a departure from a lot of the others I’ve had recently, notably the Bill of Materials includes Pilsner malt, flaked corn, Saaz and "Mittelfrüh" hops. I’m assuming that’s Hallertau Mittelfrüh. Flaked corn? Pilsner’s are a pretty upscale brew, we don’t see a lot of corn additions in Pilsners, however I have to admit, I’ve used some Dextrose in my own Bavarian Pilsner. It’s just a good way to push that SRM down while keeping the ABV in that 5% ABV range, or 5.2% in this case. Corn for flavor? An adjunct Pilsner? Blasphemy!
In all seriousness, this is a nice Pilsner, good flavor, and another of those California/American Pilsners I see using more haze than I’m used to in a Pils. I mean, these things are supposed to be crystal-clear, right? I think it’s another “Pacific Pilsner!” Prost…… Dude!
This Pilsner is a departure from a lot of the others I’ve had recently, notably the Bill of Materials includes Pilsner malt, flaked corn, Saaz and "Mittelfrüh" hops. I’m assuming that’s Hallertau Mittelfrüh. Flaked corn? Pilsner’s are a pretty upscale brew, we don’t see a lot of corn additions in Pilsners, however I have to admit, I’ve used some Dextrose in my own Bavarian Pilsner. It’s just a good way to push that SRM down while keeping the ABV in that 5% ABV range, or 5.2% in this case. Corn for flavor? An adjunct Pilsner? Blasphemy!
In all seriousness, this is a nice Pilsner, good flavor, and another of those California/American Pilsners I see using more haze than I’m used to in a Pils. I mean, these things are supposed to be crystal-clear, right? I think it’s another “Pacific Pilsner!” Prost…… Dude!
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HB Pale Ale featuring Bergamot and Citra. A great, easing drinking beer.
Hb Czech pils, side pull pour. Good clarity now.
A tiny taste of my new HB Irish Red Ale. It’s not quite carbonated nor clear, but tastes quite good already.
Then a nice new HB Schwarzbier.
Then a nice new HB Schwarzbier.
Nice Abita seasonal bock
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Sam’s summer LOL
HB RHL
Have you written this up in sufficient detail for the rest of us to try to repeat?
Brew on
I sipped on a glass of Panther Piss this evening while writing my dissertation on the Panther Piss Project. Sir, you will rue your decision to encourage me. But, again, thank you for doing so.
Thanks! I’m really happy with how it turned out.
My Maris Otter/Amarillo SMASH NEIPA (my first NEIPA.) Kegged 5 weeks ago, and happy with the way it's holding up with time.
Brew on
Brew on
Okay, I know it might look odd, but this blueberry, banana sour with lactose actually works as a desert beer.
After a couple hours spent writing a few more pages on my Panther Piss Project dissertation I elected to enjoy the Giants Opening Day on MLB.tv. What an amazing game!
Seriously, MLB? You didn't see this coming?
Seriously, MLB? You didn't see this coming?
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