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When your Single Malt's "deal" is it's named for an eel, that's Glen Moray,
When your dram of the day is Saccopharyngidae, that's Glen Moray!
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Edit: Jeez it's WAY time to clean the bar mat!
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My just kegged Oktoberfest/Marzen.
Got tired of orange O'fests. I found Hubert Hanghofer's Ur-Marzen recipe and tweaked it a bit. Turned out nice. It seemed to emulate what I used to get many years ago before the "Festbier" replaced the original Oktoberfest. In particular, Hofbrau had a great O'fest back then - dark and very easy to drink. Not quite there, yet, but still working on it. I'm thinking some Munich Dark might be the answer.
 
Can farming be less work than a brewery? That farming stuff looks like real work.
Most of the heavy lifting in farming has been reduced by technology. There’s still a certain amount of manual labor. Just climbing up and down the ladders which provide access to the cabs of our tractors and combines is a pretty good workout. The operator’s seat is 8-9 feet up and one gets in and out of a machine multiple times a day. But brewing, on the typical brewpub scale, involves a lot of schlepping grain bags, scooping out mash tuns, etc., and, if brewing 4-5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, doesn’t give the brewer a break. At least most of the manual labor involved with my occupation is seasonal; I have the winter to heal up.
 
Most of the heavy lifting in farming has been reduced by technology. There’s still a certain amount of manual labor. Just climbing up and down the ladders which provide access to the cabs of our tractors and combines is a pretty good workout. The operator’s seat is 8-9 feet up and one gets in and out of a machine multiple times a day. But brewing, on the typical brewpub scale, involves a lot of schlepping grain bags, scooping out mash tuns, etc., and, if brewing 4-5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, doesn’t give the brewer a break. At least most of the manual labor involved with my occupation is seasonal; I have the winter to heal up.
Well when you put it like that
 
Most of the heavy lifting in farming has been reduced by technology. There’s still a certain amount of manual labor. Just climbing up and down the ladders which provide access to the cabs of our tractors and combines is a pretty good workout. The operator’s seat is 8-9 feet up and one gets in and out of a machine multiple times a day. But brewing, on the typical brewpub scale, involves a lot of schlepping grain bags, scooping out mash tuns, etc., and, if brewing 4-5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, doesn’t give the brewer a break. At least most of the manual labor involved with my occupation is seasonal; I have the winter to heal up.
You'd hire people to do the heavy lifting and just do the brew mastering!!!
 
My just kegged Oktoberfest/Marzen.
Got tired of orange O'fests. I found Hubert Hanghofer's Ur-Marzen recipe and tweaked it a bit. Turned out nice. It seemed to emulate what I used to get many years ago before the "Festbier" replaced the original Oktoberfest. In particular, Hofbrau had a great O'fest back then - dark and very easy to drink. Not quite there, yet, but still working on it. I'm thinking some Munich Dark might be the answer.
Consider a Dunkelweizen or a Shwartzbier as well :) Doppelbock, anyone?
 
My first beer in 9 days. HB NEIPA. Tastes weird… but then again nothing tastes quite right yet, and from what I understand, might take a long time, if ever. I’m happy to see that it doesn’t look like mud though.
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My taste came back in about two weeks. Smell took months and it still comes and goes at times. Go luck and get better
 
I am kind of in Wine/ Cyser mode, but I just kegged an amber Belgian Dubbel I made a couple weeks ago. Waiting to bottle a couple of gallons of Seyval wine and my Cyser, but I keep stealing samples of it;). I also just started a batch of mixed black grapes, about 130 pounds worth crushed yesterday and innoculated today. That won't be ready for months though.
 
Consider a Dunkelweizen or a Shwartzbier as well :) Doppelbock, anyone?

My O'fest recipe has shifted from roughly 1/3rd Pils, Munich & Vienna (orange beer) to a Munich/Vienna mix with a little CaraMunich III. In view of my effort to emulate the Hofbrau O'fest of old, I'm considering subbing maybe a pound or so of Dark Munich for the Light Munich. Setting aside the higher percentage dark munich's you point out as changing the style, what would a small bit of dark munich add to an o'fest/marzen?
 
You'd hire people to do the heavy lifting and just do the brew mastering!!!
One of the things that people who don’t own a business don’t understand is that everybody else gets paid before the owner. If I want to make beer without knowing if I‘m going to get paid this week I’ll just keep homebrewing. I don’t need to trade the uncertainty of the business I already own, and have 45 years of experience in, for the uncertainty of a business that I have 0 years of experience in.
 
One of the things that people who don’t own a business don’t understand is that everybody else gets paid before the owner. If I want to make beer without knowing if I‘m going to get paid this week I’ll just keep homebrewing. I don’t need to trade the uncertainty of the business I already own, and have 45 years of experience in, for the uncertainty of a business that I have 0 years of experience in.
Was just encouraging you because you seem so dang good at it!
 
Tried the peach? I love that one. I haven’t had luck finding any varieties around here lately though.
I was hopeful to try all four last night and saved the peach for last but was exhausted and couldn't stay up any later. I look forward to trying it tonight. I lucked out at our local Wegmans (grocery store) and found all four bottles in the make your own 6-pack for $12 in the beer cooler. Yet on the European shelf they had them all in full 4-packs and the mixed 4-pack. They were $15/4-pack if my memory was correct. I had been eyeing these beers but kept holding off and I am glad I did! Got the mixed 4-pack cheaper and two other beers.
 
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