What are you drinking now?

[grampamark]

Big Sky calls it a Winter Ale. I’d call it a WCIPA. It’s pretty good, actually.

 

[davidabcd]

Googled imaged. Then sized to fit

I would have never guessed that as an option. It's clever but now after peeking behind the curtain....
Still solid.
I'm a wax marker type or a tiny sticker with a symbol on it kind of person. I do it for administrative purposes. I'm understandably jealous of those whose go the extra yard.

 

[WBB]

 

[Bramling Cross]

Big Sky calls it a Winter Ale. I’d call it a WCIPA. It’s pretty good, actually.
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As someone that was in PDX back in the olden days when Portland was the epicenter of the mircro-brewery movement in the early 90's. That was a Winter/Christmas ale. Well, it was one of two ways to make a X-mas beer. Most breweries were brewing a pale ale as their flagship, a wheat beer of some kind, a porter, a berry beer, a stout, and an IPA, in descending order of importance. Back then, simply dry hopping their pale ale could constitute their Chirstmas beer, but it was more normal to up the gravity a bit and dry hop. Some brewers got bold and went dark, like an old ale, but most just threw more hops at the problem.

And then there was Anchor, down in SF. They were sticking pine branches in their beer back in the 80's. They've always marched to their own drum. I love them for that.

 

[orionol73]

Regular

 

[Elkobrewer]

It is times like these where I am envious of those who can grill outdoors.
Nice setup.

it was a very nice day here today 60 deg. Thank you sir

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

Not gonna lie - I bought it for the name but it's quite good!

 

[buckinin]

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

An unsolicited fun fact… lol…The red headed female singer from the b52’s is a long time customer of my Father’s greenhouse and nursery business.

I was getting lunch at my schools lounge and they were starting doing small shows again after Ricky Wilson had died. Couldn't stand to stop and listen like a idiot. Loved his guitar playing.

 

[aharri1]

A share with my HB friends

 

[hopkincr]

College freshman daughter’s sorority winter formal tonight. HS Junior daughter’s winter formal tonight. Me - HB Pale Ale.

 

[pshankstar]

Thanks @TheDudeLebowski for the Mettle!! Solid DIPA with a nice dryness/bitterness.
Then Lily from Fidens brewing. Ugh cutting back on drinking = more aged IPAs. Lily was canned on 12/2/21, but still drinking pretty good. Maybe tomorrow I can put a good dent on these older IPAs. Or maybe I’ll drink freshies.

 

[orionol73]

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

View attachment 759385View attachment 759386Thanks @TheDudeLebowski for the Mettle!! Solid DIPA with a nice dryness/bitterness.
Then Lily from Fidens brewing. Ugh cutting back on drinking = more aged IPAs. Lily was canned on 12/2/21, but still drinking pretty good. Maybe tomorrow I can put a good dent on these older IPAs. Or maybe I’ll drink freshies.

If you drink all your beer tomorrow the ghost will go away.

 

[pshankstar]

Knocking out some older IPAs while letting the kids stay up late with friends.
Enjoying “The Dark Side of the 90’s” on Hulu.

 

[BrewinInPA]

Avec les bons vouex shared around...
And good wishes to you all!

 

[buckinin]

My wife’s uncle decided my blonde ale needed a Dagwood theme. Which is better?

OT: Hb robust porter

 

[BrewinInPA]

Aventinus shared around

 

[IslandLizard]

@adminstrator or @IslandLizard

I noticed that this thread is taking a lot longer to load than everything else. I've got 30 Mbps on the laptop going on so it's not that. Maybe do a year by year for the thread like the sister-site and start a new one? It's not ridiculously slow but maybe something to consider.

Thanks,
David

Hi David,
thanks for reaching out.
I'm paging @HBT_Admin here too, so she knows there's a follow-up.

Although this thread is rather long, 7556 pages currently, the only part that loads is the current selected page, containing a maximum of 40 posts. Not the whole thread is preloaded.
Now there are many large images on these pages, so loading those could slow things down, depending on your internet connection speed and power of your processor.

I just loaded a few random pages of this thread, it was speedy here, only taking 3-4 seconds per page, but that's on a Gigabit connection.
The size of this very page (#7555) is a tad over 100MB, which would take a minimum of 100*8 = 800 Mbit / 30 Mbps = 27 seconds with your connection. This is just for the data transfer, without processing overhead on either end. Is that the lag you're experiencing, or does it take much longer? 27 seconds can feel like an eternity if you're waiting for it.

Splitting the thread into a year by year edition may make browsing a little less cumbersome, but wouldn't make any difference in loading speed, as we'd still have the same (large) size content pages, due to many large images per page.

We can take this discussion to our HomeBrewTalk Announcements & Forum Help forum if we want to get more detailed, or if many others experience this too. Not sure there would be an easy solution, aside from using fewer posts per page or reducing the image sizes.

 

[BrewinInPA]

Optimator shared around

 

[buckinin]

Hi David,
thanks for reaching out.
I'm paging @HBT_Admin here too, so she knows there's a follow-up.

Although this thread is rather long, 7556 pages currently, the only part that loads is the current selected page, containing a maximum of 40 posts. Not the whole thread is preloaded.
Now there are many large images on these pages, so loading those could slow things down, depending on your internet connection speed and power of your processor.

I just loaded a few random pages of this thread, it was speedy here, only taking 3-4 seconds per page, but that's on a Gigabit connection.
The size of this very page (#7555) is a tad over 100MB, which would take a minimum of 100*8 = 800 Mbit / 30 Mbps = 27 seconds with your connection. This is just for the data transfer, without processing overhead on either end. Is that the lag you're experiencing, or does it take much longer? 27 seconds can feel like an eternity if you're waiting for it.

Splitting the thread into a year by year edition may make browsing a little less cumbersome, but wouldn't make any difference in loading speed, as we'd still have the same (large) size content pages, due to many large images per page.

We can take this discussion to our HomeBrewTalk Announcements & Forum Help forum if we want to get more detailed, or if many others experience this too. Not sure there would be an easy solution, aside from using fewer posts per page or reducing the image sizes.

My image size MUST be retained.

 

[beermanpete]

Martini with Aviation gin.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

HB Saison

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Looks like that’s a moray… your Valentine’s beer?

 

[orionol73]

 

[BrewinInPA]

Optimator.

 

[beermanpete]

 

[Sam_92]

Optimator.
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That is such a good beer!

 

[camonick]

My image size MUST be retained.

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That’s the label for my Schwarzbier.

 

[Sam_92]

Homebrewed Witbier. At a whim I put lemon zest, Juniper berries, and coriander in the priming sugar solution. It is a perfectly refreshing beer for summer and gauging by my wife's reaction I need to brew it again right now!

 

[BrewinInPA]

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