What are you drinking now?

[Rish]

A little HM arancello while getting my next batch going. I'll sous vide it tomorrow, 125*F for a couple of hours then let it set for a week or so. This batch I'll dial back to around 30% abv vs. the 42% of this one then sweeten with monk fruit.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Turkish lager

 

[BongoYodeler]

Home from vacation.
I missed an opportunity to meet @Section1 . I drove right through Metropolis, IL yesterday without realizing it was along my route home. I was only stopped long enough to get gas and eat a bite and he was at work. Wish I had been paying more attention to where I was. Maybe some how some other day…
Having a HB Dunkel to relax after driving so much
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I’ll join you with a HB Dunkel, your recipe in fact. I brewed a smaller batch, kegged a couple gallons and bottled a dozen. This is very good, thanks for sharing the recipe.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Estimated OG 1.053 ...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

HB cyser I finished off the little bit of leftovers

 

[ClaudiusB]

It's a great, cool night for drinking homemade beer, with a temperature of 96°F at 10 PM.
For tonight, I picked a few easy-to-brew German beers like Steam beer, Maibock, Rotbier, and Pils.

 

[ClaudiusB]

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Turkish lager

Wow, your first post with a beer featuring a creamy-looking head.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Wow, your first post with a beer featuring a creamy-looking head.

I think I may have posted one or 2 of my HB in 2017 that would fit the bill. I know, it begs the question why not more?

 

[camonick]

I’ll join you with a HB Dunkel, your recipe in fact. I brewed a smaller batch, kegged a couple gallons and bottled a dozen. This is very good, thanks for sharing the recipe.

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I’m glad to hear it was good. Do you think it’s an accurate representation? I’ve tried it side by side with some German imports and American versions and I feel it’s very similar. I’ve tinkered with the ingredients a little bit but always revert back to my original recipe. What yeast did you use?

 

[Pennine]

A couple quick ones before I hit the trails for a ride.

 

[MaxStout]

HB oatmeal stout.

 

[Rish]

Tasty Pils

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Who's going to believe this. Threw the back out this morning. Fighting? Sparring? Doing 40yrd sprints with a torn calf? Nope, throwing....a...dog....ball. Let that soak in. Full disclosure, I have a torn disc from 2003. Guess how? Breaking up my dogs from fighting. I've waited as long as possible to open a beer.
(Some is wrong with the site, post the beer later in case you've never seen one)

 

[BongoYodeler]

I’m glad to hear it was good. Do you think it’s an accurate representation? I’ve tried it side by side with some German imports and American versions and I feel it’s very similar. I’ve tinkered with the ingredients a little bit but always revert back to my original recipe. What yeast did you use?

It tasted quite good, no off flavors, and even though it was only bottled less than 3 weeks ago it didn’t taste “green” at all. This time of year I can’t get very many dunkels locally to compare this to, but hopefully late summer or early fall that will change. I’m going to try to let this lager until September or so and then hopefully I can do some blind taste comparisons.

I used 34/70 and fermented at 62-63 degrees for the first 3 or 4 days of the most active part of fermentation, then let it free rise to room temperature (67-68), for a couple weeks.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Spent the afternoon with our son tooling around Pismo Beach. We stopped for a quick bite to eat and a beer.

 

[Beermeister32]

I’m trying to figure out where Samuel Adams American Light fits in.

Sam Adams Boston Lager is the brew that got it all started with me. So it’s the late 1980’s I was on a business trip to the East Coast and had a layover in Cleveland or Chicago or Denver, or wherever, I can’t remember. That’s the sign of a good beer trip – you don’t remember! Anyway, I had a couple hours to kill and I decided to pull into an airport bar and there it was…. SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER! Well, I’ve heard about it, I guess it’s high time to give one of those bad boys a try. I ordered up a pint and couldn’t BELIEVE the flavor. It’s one of those situations where you want to go home and dump all the other beers down the drain and replace with Sam Adams…. it was that good! What a difference!

So here we are in 2025. That airport beer was about 37 years ago, unbelievably! So what’s the next mountain to climb? I mean, after being a founding father of the domestic craft brewing market and numerous other beer releases, an American Light Lager is something different. Like isn’t the market soaking wet saturated with Modelo Oro, Coors Light and Miller Lite… and Bud Light?

Nevertheless, here it is. It exists! A 4.2% ABV light Lager with the Samuel Adams name on it! This is a great tasting light Lager. I poured this just about as hard as I could trying to raise some amount of head for the photograph, to no avail! No lacing either, it is clean light Lager without foam and lacing producing elements. This is really a good light, I think it’s at least worth trying the next time you are browsing the big can section of the beer locker. Just to say you did! Enjoy!

 

[Bramling Cross]

I'm cheap and I have no class, so I'm guzzling kegging dregs again. In this case, I just finished kegging my standard ordinary bitter. Seems like it'll be a nice batch. It better be, I have this one nailed down pretty tight.

I ran it through my hooptie beer engine.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

HB Cascade/Citra pale ale... very refreshing after mowing on a hot day!

 

[Rish]

My grandson bought a mixed pack of these to share. Man, this one is a great beer. Malty, dark fruit, caramel, 10.5%. I like it!

 

[Pennine]

These do get better with age. I now have bottles from 5 years stashed away. Time to do a vertical tasting or wait till a fresh year comes out next year?

 

[doug293cz]

Time to do a vertical tasting or wait till a fresh year comes out next year?

Unless the brewery announces an end-of-production for a particular beer, you could wait forever to have "next year's" edition to add to the tasting. Do the tasting before you die, and since you don't know when that will be...

Brew on

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

These do get better with age. I now have bottles from 5 years stashed away. Time to do a vertical tasting or wait till a fresh year comes out next year?

Was gifted a 2014 Bourbon County Brand Stout bomber I think 3 years ago now, and finally got around to sharing it with my son in law (2 years ago? Something like that)... Anyways, it was lousy. Tasted like carbonated, boozy, soy sauce. So don't let them sit forever!

 

[Pennine]

Unless the brewery announces an end-of-production for a particular beer, you could wait forever to have "next year's" edition to add to the tasting. Do the tasting before you die, and since you don't know when that will be...

Brew on

Agreed, I have also heard they get worse after 5 years of aging. I think I have 4 bottles from each year back to 2021 when I started collecting them.

I might add a set in the next beer swap.

 

[Pennine]

Was gifted a 2014 Bourbon County Brand Stout bomber I think 3 years ago now, and finally got around to sharing it with my son in law (2 years ago? Something like that)... Anyways, it was lousy. Tasted like carbonated, boozy, soy sauce. So don't let them sit forever!

I did this with some Westvleteren 12s, after 5 years they ended up getting chunky. They did still taste good though, no soy sauce. Carbonated soy sauce sounds pretty terrible actually.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

I did this with some Westvleteren 12s, after 5 years they ended up getting chunky. They did still taste good though, no soy sauce. Carbonated soy sauce sounds pretty terrible actually.

Yah, it was a dumper

 

[Pennine]

HB best bitter, I tried to make a version of Sussex Best. This cleared up nice and quick.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Yah, it was a dumper

I think 2014 was the last year they stopped unpasteurized stouts due to 2015 which was infected. They were also bought out at that time from what I remember. I still have at least one bottle of 2015. I still drink it because it is amazingly horrific. So many levels of bad.

As for Westy? I've been able to keep them for 12 years. I don't think I sampled them every year but thoroughly enjoyed every sampling. I see suctions where they're over twenty years old for a good price.

My favorite beer tonnage is Orval. That changes a lot to me over the years with it's prime around seven years. There's a dull period to me after that I was sad that I thought that was the limit for my taste buds. But then at around ten years it gets good and complex again..it's an experiment and always fun to find something old and lost.

 

[corkybstewart]

Bruges day 2

 

[mac_1103]

Love that town.

 

[JohnDBrewer]

Sam Adams Boston Lager is the brew that got it all started with me

Sam Adam's got it all started for me too, except it was the Oktoberfest and only being able to get a few months out of the year.

 

[MaxStout]

Sam Adam's got it all started for me too, except it was the Oktoberfest and only being able to get a few months out of the year.

SA got me started, too. Up to that time it was import beer for me (when I had the extra $$$).

My local watering hole had a big promotion one night. People from the distributor on hand, local radio station broadcasting live from there, place was packed. Buy a pint, keep the glass. Refills were like a buck or so (this was late-80s).

Then Summit started distributing in my area, and their pale ale and extra pale ale became my foray into hop-forward beers.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Drinking the coffee, not the egg.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Love that town.

Me too!!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Pit stop at River Roost.

Barleywine (L)
Soaked in Sin Batch #3
This batch, “Edwin’s batch,” was brewed with a large portion of marris otter, long boiled, and aged one year in bourbon barrels.

Porter (R)
Shattered Illusions of Love Batch #7
Baltic porter aged in a blend of bourbon barrels

 

[Section1]

Homebrew English Mild, my Black Cat clone. Love this beer.

 

[day_trippr]

I feel I'm missing something about this picture

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Rafters had all kinds of stuff, magnums of Russian River but I found the books interesting

OT: Zoom meeting in the mountains for code review

 

[Section1]

Homebrew hoppy Blonde Ale.

 

[MaxStout]

Having a HB pale ale, paired with a delicious and nutritious mid-afternoon snack.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Lunch at Humdinger Brewing.