Blackberry and tea saison. Tasty but lost it's carbonation really quickly.
Very creative use of a stand-up piano, where are the taps?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!
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Well, that's certainly a beer you don't see every day! It's also gorgeous.HB Lavender Smoked Helles Eisbock
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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.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.
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.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.
The CD's look upset that they aren't being used.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…
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Linda doesn’t look very happy in that picture, does she.The CD's look upset that they aren't being used.
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.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.
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