What are you drinking now?

[TheDudeLebowski]

Just need a Jets fan to round out the AFC East huh?

This is chaos!!!!

 

[mullet6577]

Working my way up to Tyson. Round 2! Ding ding ding

 

[camonick]

I’d have to say, mine looks and tastes a lot better. Can’t wait until it’s carbonated.
Meanwhile…

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Drinking what AHS calls their "Texas Kolsch". Not real fond of it. I knew it wouldn't even be close to a Kolsch, but it was on a moving blowout sale, so I tried it. An ok session ale is about all I can say for it.

AHS . Austin Homebrew Supply? Guess they got bought out by InBev then shut them down! According to my SoCo Homebrew Supply dudes.

Weekend begins now ..

 

[TBC]

How is it holding up? I only have one bottle left, so I am afraid to open it, but then again, I don't want to save it to death.

It was excellent. from past experience they do get better with age though. I believe I have 1 left. I think I might have a vertical now.

 

[davidabcd]

I can't post one without the other. Nice Boulevard tonight and an accusatory glare from Moose. Don't know whom or what he's accusing but it is clear that he believes he's been wronged.

 

[cajunrph]

AHS . Austin Homebrew Supply? Guess they got bought out by InBev then shut them down! According to my SoCo Homebrew Supply dudes.

Northern Brewer bought them out. Northern Brewer was acquired from InBev by a holding company named Black Street.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Northern Brewer bought them out. Northern Brewer was acquired from InBev by a holding company named Black Street.

Some NY company? You know I just like beer, the inner workings kinda ruin it right?

On a mead thing....

 

[mullet6577]

Round 3 vs Piston Honda

 

[pshankstar]

This all mosaic IPA is delicious! Then a cellar raid to share with the in-laws realizing they might like adjunct stouts in small portions. They got a taster, I got this glass.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Sweet....!!!

 

[davidabcd]

I thought the NFL delivered last season.

 

[aharri1]

HB rum barrel aged American strong ale. "Freedom cost a buck'o'five"

 

[Bluekat]

WTH! Bills?!??!

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Bills Mafia my friend, to the core!

 

[bwible]

Ghost in the Machine at Epcot.View attachment 769157

Is that beer, orange juice, a screwdriver, or a whiskey sour?

 

[lumbergh]

It certainly was dank. I liked it.

 

[AlexKay]

Iced Lapsang Souchang. Too much left to do today to start with the alcohol quite yet.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Might be getting tighter in here but finally able to fit old keggorator

along with the fermentation temp control freezer and all else. Getting ready for football!

HB Hefe

 

[kingmatt]

Is that beer, orange juice, a screwdriver, or a whiskey sour?

Haha, it is a delicious beer from Parish Brewing. I also had this one from them that was killer, "Bloom"

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

A warm HBT Welcome to the newest Pianoman family member. The old Shark Dude fell and drowned to the bottom. High hopes for this guy....

 

[Rish]

Blackberry and tea saison. Tasty but lost it's carbonation really quickly.

 

[Rish]

HB chocolate stout

 

[AlexKay]

HB Lavender Smoked Helles Eisbock

 

[Bramling Cross]

My first batch of fully LODO Panther Piss—aside from my copper IM (it’s amazing and I’m not giving it up). Ever.

The LODO folks aren’t wrong, there is a tangible difference. I’m just not sure that I like it. The recipe will need further iterations to optimize it for how it currently tastes. The malt is improved, but there’s a soapy quality to the hop bill that I can’t get past.

It’s an interesting new phase in my development as a brewer. We’ll see where it goes.

 

[JAReeves]

Might be getting tighter in here but finally able to fit old keggorator View attachment 769315along with the fermentation temp control freezer and all else. Getting ready for football!

HB Hefe

Very creative use of a stand-up piano, where are the taps?

 

[Bramling Cross]

HB Lavender Smoked Helles Eisbock
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Well, that's certainly a beer you don't see every day! It's also gorgeous.

I would really enjoy hearing how you arrived at that recipe. It sounds like a great story.

 

[user 263363]

I’m not much of a pop drinker as I try to stick to water, coffee, and alcohol. But I had some pony cans of Coke leftover from my toddlers birthday party this past weekend so I made a couple Cuba Libres with some very local rum.

 

[AlexKay]

Well, that's certainly a beer you don't see every day! It's also gorgeous.

I would really enjoy hearing how you arrived at that recipe. It sounds like a great story.

Incrementally. I started off because I had this lavender smoked malt, because they were selling it at Sugar Creek, and how not? Minimum 10 lb. bag. So I made a lager with it, roughly equal parts lavender 2-row, white wheat, and Vienna. That was pretty good! But I still had something like 7 lbs. of the lavender left. So I made the lager recipe again, but at roughly double the gravity. As it happened, I was fermenting a doppelbock at the same time, and I’d never done any freeze concentration before so … why not? One normal eisbock, one lavender smoked helles eisbock.

The lavender is very subtle, so it’s more a helles eisbock with some floral notes. I sent it to a competition and they didn’t know what to do with it. Not enough smoke to live up to the name. I remain convinced that helles bock, lavender or no, is awfully good when freeze concentrated, though.

I made the regular strength lager again and entered it in a separate competition with no mention of the lavender, as a regular American lager, and it got a 38 and a bronze. So the lavender really is subtle.

 

[grampamark]

Sample of the HB Blonde I just kegged.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Incrementally. I started off because I had this lavender smoked malt, because they were selling it at Sugar Creek, and how not? Minimum 10 lb. bag. So I made a lager with it, roughly equal parts lavender 2-row, white wheat, and Vienna. That was pretty good! But I still had something like 7 lbs. of the lavender left. So I made the lager recipe again, but at roughly double the gravity. As it happened, I was fermenting a doppelbock at the same time, and I’d never done any freeze concentration before so … why not? One normal eisbock, one lavender smoked helles eisbock.

The lavender is very subtle, so it’s more a helles eisbock with some floral notes. I sent it to a competition and they didn’t know what to do with it. Not enough smoke to live up to the name. I remain convinced that helles bock, lavender or no, is awfully good when freeze concentrated, though.

I made the regular strength lager again and entered it in a separate competition with no mention of the lavender, as a regular American lager, and it got a 38 and a bronze. So the lavender really is subtle.

I certainly agree, lavender must be one of the most subtle ingredients going. I've been goofing around with it in my Wits for decades and, at most, I can get a bit of a Juicy-Fruit sorta vibe out of it on the finish. Nothing at all like the aroma it produces. I think the world of Randy Mosher, but I kinda hate his guts for suggesting that lavender is a vital component of a proper Wit.

Thanks for clarifying things. I get it, now. It makes a lot more sense knowing that the smoke and the lavender are the same ingredient. Given that the scent of Lavender is so impactful, yet the flavor is so different, I can see why someone tried smoking with it. Fun!

It sounds like an amazing beer! It must be fun knowing that you're serving the only beer like that in the entire universe