What are you drinking now?

[ClaudiusB]

Our Maibock season didn't start as planned yesterday. The gas company told us that we have a major gas leak and showed up with heavy equipment, like a boring machine, excavators, etc. It's a four-day repair project to replace the main line and relocate the gas meter.
I think the gas company is confused about the origin of the smell, it's coming from the green box.
Cheers

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Missed Mott the Lessor release last week with a blown tire but the Maine destination today.

Much quieter than release dates. Tod and wife enjoying cheese and their IPA in the corner

Interesting "maibock" Kolibrator

Mott

 

[Pehlman17]

Our Maibock season didn't start as planned yesterday. The gas company told us that we have a major gas leak and showed up with heavy equipment, like a boring machine, excavators, etc. It's a four-day repair project to replace the main line and relocate the gas meter.
I think the gas company is confused about the origin of the smell, it's coming from the green box.
Cheers
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How do they know it’s not all those lagers you’ve got fermenting?

 

[NotSure]

HB Czech Pilsner... really Czechish Pilsner, since I treated the water instead of starting with soft. Still turned out well after a few weeks of lagering.

 

[firerat]

This is pretty good whiskey
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Love me some Tully!!

A guy at work grabbed a 12 pack of these for me at costco.

Its actually not bad. It's not great either. But I could easily crush way too many of these by the pool.

 

[Beermeister32]

Starting today and ending next weekend, I’ll be celebrating Cinco de Mayo the only way a beer lover should – by sampling the fine Mexican brews available here in SoCal! That’s right beer lovers, beginning today Segunda de Mayo and ending Diez de Mayo! Mexican beer week!

Luckily, we have gas stations aplenty here in dry, parched Southern California, greatly simplifying my task of rounding up all the regular suspects! I’ll take 15 gallons of regular and these here cans of Cerveza! Stay tuned!

 

[Beermeister32]

Dos Equis needs no introduction as the beer brand behind “The Most Interesting Man in the World” advertising campaigns. Literally meaning “Two Xs”, it originally was named “Siglio XX” using the Roman numerals for twenty, celebrating the beginning of the 20th Century. Sigio XX was later re-named Dos Equis.

Dos Equis is advertised as a Golden-Pilsner, 4.2% ABV and 10 IBU. For you Imperial IPA-soaked hop-heads out there, at 10 IBU, you might not even taste the hops!

Speaking of low ABV, by comparison, drinking a 4.2% ABV 24-ouncer is the alcohol equivalent of one regular 12 ounce can of a typical 8.4% ABV IPA.

How does it taste? Well, it has an unusual old library-book flavor and I’ll say “heaviness” to it unlike your typical domestic adjunct lagers. Maybe it’s the green glass. I think I’d be more inclined to call it a “Golden Lager” and forget the Pilsner moniker. It’s two continents off from my idea of a Pilsner. Lime and chips a must …. Salud!

 

[MaxStout]

A hazy day for a hazy. Fair State Party Forward.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

HB Rye while awaiting storms to arrive

 

[T Murph]

Enjoying a HB Czech Pilsner while waiting on an impending storm.

 

[Pennine]

Picked this up at the LHBS.

 

[madscientist451]

Two Brothers brewing Cane and Abel Red Rye Ale. “Best before” 7/7/19, so almost 6 years out of date, tastes pretty good to me. This has been in my commercial beer collection and finally decided to go for it, would like to clone this.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Something stronger...

 

[BongoYodeler]

Russian River Mind Circus, hazy ipa.

 

[Rish]

Pretty tasty pub ale. Thought I got a pic of the nice cascade but apparently not!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Bugs & beer

 

[MaxStout]

Pretty tasty pub ale. Thought I got a pic of the nice cascade but apparently not!View attachment 874590

Guess you'll have to pour another and have your camera ready!

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Think the leg's feeling better..

 

[MaxStout]

A wee dram of some nice Canadian whisky.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I picked up a 4 pk of these, because the empty bottles will be useful for mead entries. It doesn’t remind me of mimosas, but it’s not terrible either.

 

[MaxStout]

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I picked up a 4 pk of these, because the empty bottles will be useful for mead entries. It doesn’t remind me of mimosas, but it’s not terrible either.

If you have any gin & tonic drinkers in your house the 200ml Fever Tree tonic bottles are excellent. I keep them for bottling hard cider. The labels are kind of a pain to get off, though.

And Fever Tree beats Schwepps, Canada Dry, etc., hands-down for G&Ts. Spendy but worth it.

 

[BongoYodeler]

If you have any gin & tonic drinkers in your house the 200ml Fever Tree tonic bottles are excellent. I keep them for bottling hard cider. The labels are kind of a pain to get off, though.

And Fever Tree beats Schwepps, Canada Dry, etc., hands-down for G&Ts. Spendy but worth it.

100% agree. Fever Tree Tonic for the win!!

 

[tdf]

Homebrew. This was supposed to be a light lager but the pack of cellar science German I pitched was dead on arrival. I pitched some m54 instead. Which did not clear at all.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

When you ask the wife to "just grab me a beer". It's not MY fault it's 11+ ABV!

 

[day_trippr]

HB Julius clone...

Cheers!

 

[Rish]

A little HM Chinese rice wine

 

[pshankstar]

Made my first old fashion tonight. Also made the simple syrup for it too.

 

[Tony B]

Happy Friday.

 

[Tony B]

HB Julius clone...

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Cheers!

I was just thinking how similar my starter looks to my OJ milkshake IPA…

 

[firerat]

Home roasted (not by me) Rowandan coffee from a French Press. I've never had coffee that tasted like this and I love it!! Interesting orange notes in there. And of course it of my daddy cup.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Nice American lager after coffee and bagel.


Soon to be released barrel aged stout with coconut omg so good. A toast to the brewer!

 

[Pennine]

Home roasted (not by me) Rowandan coffee from a French Press. I've never had coffee that tasted like this and I love it!! Interesting orange notes in there. And of course it of my daddy cup.

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I just got back into roasting and would highly recommend it. It's realtively cheap and easy with modern home coffee roasters. And the product is remarkably better than anything you can buy outside a local roaster.

 

[RCope]

Brewed a Mango Sour this morning, still had some backyard mango frozen from last year. This year's harvest will be epic! Now a HB Pilsner featuring Saphir hops. It's gotta be 5 o'clock somewhere!

 

[day_trippr]

"Backyard Mango" would be a great name for your beer

 

[loganklaas]

HB Raspberry Hard Lemonade

 

[Beermeister32]

Great news, I've found about 4 or 5 other Mexican beers, so the Cinco de Mayo Mexican beer celebration will continue until depletion! Today I'm drinking a huge 24 ounce stovepipe of Modelo Especial. Modelo is the major player in Mexico and just sells HUGE amounts of this in Southern California. This is another lower ABV beer - coming in at 4.4% ABV, definitely in session beer territory. Or shall I say "Session Cerveza Territory!"

This is another beer that claims to be "Pilsner-Style" on the can. I do find this one more drinkable than yesterday's brew, of course any beer coming in a can is going to do better than green glass. Why oh why, for the love of beer do breweries still package in green glass? Eck. Well, I'd say this is more along the lines of a Coors Banquet beer, however I poured this about as hard as I could and no head. No lacing either, two characteristics I look for in quality brewing process. Also the malt and hopping is different than any Pilsners I've had, and at 18 IBU it falls solidy in the Helles IBU range, not the higher Pilsner range. So we have here another BMC type beer similar to other North American adjunct Lagers.

I squeezed my lime wedges into the second half of this glass, really gets me in the mood for Tacos! I can remember one Saturday Fajita-fest we were having at La residencia Beermeister32, and I forgot the Corona. I squeezed all the limes into the Coors Light I had on hand and nobody knew the difference!

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Work til noon today, came home to work on wife's car. Clutch job almost done, had some snags that held me up, hopefully passed all that now. Today got both axles, lower control arms, and struts in, now time to tighten up the subframe and get the downpipe back on, then all the little odds and end hoses and wiring and whatnot, I better be driving this car by tomorrow at the latest. Beer break, actually my 3rd beer break but whatever, wife is out with oldest daughter barrel racing her horse. Just me, the garage, music, beer..

 

[MaxStout]

When you ask the wife to "just grab me a beer". It's not MY fault it's 11+ ABV!

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She's just trying to get you drunk to take advantage of you.

 

[MaxStout]

Brew day done (oatmeal stout), gear cleaned and put away.

Relaxing with a HB Skibsol (Danish-style smoked ale).

 

[Pennine]

I had a good chuckle when I saw this at the store and I couldn't resist trying it out. It's not bad, same vein as pivo pils, I would probably call it an Italian pils though.