Blackberry and tea saison. Tasty but lost it's carbonation really quickly.
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HB Lavender Smoked Helles Eisbock
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.
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.
Very creative use of a stand-up piano, where are the taps?
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.
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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.
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.
Sample of the HB Blonde I just kegged.
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
A very subtle IPA, would be good with something spicy. Working in the garage is not spicy.
HB Irish Red by the glow of a portable work light. Power went off here about 45 min ago. The power co. service guys are about an hour away. So, we wait…
On the one hand, you've got no juice. On the other, your HB Irish red is actually red.
I'd call that an exceptionally rare win.
I'd call that an exceptionally rare win.
The CD's look upset that they aren't being used.
Linda doesn’t look very happy in that picture, does she.
We do have a generator I can hook up if it looks like the power won’t be back soon. It appears that there are only a few farms, which are served by an underground line which starts just west of our place, that are without power.
Hope they pull it together for you soon! Remind Linda that her body of work makes her important in the annals of human history, whatever life may be throwing at her now.
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Takes 2...
Pre weekend beer
Some locals
Power’s back on. I told my wife I should move the tractor and generator over by the house, where the meter loop with the pigtail to plug in the generator is, before it gets dark. That way, just when I was ready to start the generator, the power would come on. My estimate was off by just a little. I was putting my coat on, to go out in the rain, and the lights came on.
OT-HB Cali Common in my well lit brewery.
OT-HB Cali Common in my well lit brewery.
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Love these weekends!
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Mead day tomorrow. 5 gallons planned... here's to hoping
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New Belgian Hazy then a 60min IPA
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Prepping for the mead brew,
need more 60min.
HB Old Rasputin clone because it’s the weekend. Prost!
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Here goes something...
Its nice having beers you only drink one month out of the year. I I love Oberon.
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HB Margarita
New England style hefeweizen at Ferus. Wasn't sure what that was, but it's pretty tasty.
HB Cali Common while brewing a Cream Ale. We have a wedding to attend next month and my wife suggested that it would be cool if I brought some homebrew for the pregame. Anytime my wife says I should brew something I’m going to get right on that
Hb snpa clone, 2 weeks in keg.. getting there.
Next up, some voodoo ranger stuff, not bad. Getting ready to put a brisket in the smoker, hosting a wedding tomorrow so trying to get in the right mindset.
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