What are you drinking?
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Re: What are you drinking?
This is a beer I've loved for years... probably my favorite Blackstone beer (and they make a lot of good ones). It used to be a brewpub/festival exclusive every spring, but for the last few years they've bottled it as their spring seasonal.
It's a really simple recipe... Here's how they describe it.
After talking with Dave about it a bit, here's what's in my brew log for future brewing...
Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU
9.33 lb Maris Otter (Crisp) (4.0 SRM) Grain 92.56 %
0.75 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 7.44 %
1.50 oz Williamette [5.50 %] (60 min) Hops 28.5 IBU
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (5 min) Hops 3.4 IBU
1 Pkgs English Ale (White Labs #WLP002) Yeast-Ale
Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.057 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.018 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.03 %
Bitterness: 31.9 IBU
Calories: 253 cal/pint
Est Color: 10.2 SRM
It's a really simple recipe... Here's how they describe it.
After talking with Dave about it a bit, here's what's in my brew log for future brewing...
Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU
9.33 lb Maris Otter (Crisp) (4.0 SRM) Grain 92.56 %
0.75 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 7.44 %
1.50 oz Williamette [5.50 %] (60 min) Hops 28.5 IBU
1.00 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (5 min) Hops 3.4 IBU
1 Pkgs English Ale (White Labs #WLP002) Yeast-Ale
Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.057 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.018 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.03 %
Bitterness: 31.9 IBU
Calories: 253 cal/pint
Est Color: 10.2 SRM
Swenocha is a vast bastard of brewing knowledge - Wings_Fan_In_KC
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Re: What are you drinking?
The last of my mystery beer six-pack from last week's competition. This one seems like a very light, caramelly porter.
Re: What are you drinking?
99% certain this is the last bottle of the IPA I did as a "teach a friend to brew" beer bottled in Nov '12. This was a partial mash combined with the Diablo IPA from the contest winnings and a bunch of hops. Never really cared that much for it (though the two guys I brewed with swear they loved it and want to brew "the exact same beer" on an upcoming brew day... I plan to talk them into something different, as I don't intend to buy a Mr. B extract for the brew day, but I will likely use some DME/LME to get it up to 5 or 6 gallons), but it is rock solid now. Of course, it's not a crazy hop bomb after being in the bottle for 1.5 years, but the PoR hops have settled in a lot and it's a nice, malty, caramelly, balanced brew that still has a nice bit of flavor hops lingering about. Wish I had sat on all of my bottles until now....
Swenocha is a vast bastard of brewing knowledge - Wings_Fan_In_KC
Fermenting:
nada... zip...
Drinking:
nada... zip... maybe an N/A beer here and there...
Fermenting:
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Drinking:
nada... zip... maybe an N/A beer here and there...
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Re: What are you drinking?
a Wrye American
"Filled with mingled cream and amber
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain
-- Quaintest thoughts -- Queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
Who cares how time advances?
I am drinking ale today."
Edgar Allan Poe
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain
-- Quaintest thoughts -- Queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
Who cares how time advances?
I am drinking ale today."
Edgar Allan Poe
Re: What are you drinking?
Nice Belgian Dubble.
Re: What are you drinking?
My best Rye yet
MO rEye PA
Maris Otter
Rye
Flaked Rye
Melanoiden
Carapils
Saphir and Liberty Hops
Nottingham
Man this is good
MO rEye PA
Maris Otter
Rye
Flaked Rye
Melanoiden
Carapils
Saphir and Liberty Hops
Nottingham
Man this is good
Re: What are you drinking?
Had a Triton Brewery Railsplitter IPA while out to dinner with my better half, then had my latest homebrewed IPA. Also shared my Bourbon Barrel Porter with her, her favorite of my homebrews.
Re: What are you drinking?
Thoroughly enjoyed another of my Beach Babe Blonde; seems the limeade addition is settling in and not being so smack me in the face forward but refreshing the pallette as it goes down the piehole
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Fermenting: Quiet Kreek Kolsch Deaux, First Pitch Pilsner Ale Trois
Conditioning: Nut Brown Vienna Lager Ale, PilotHouse Pilsner, Johnny Silk's ESB 4th gen, Blue Moon Clone Trois, Fallen Friar Deaux, Arizona Country Canadian Draft Deaux
Drinking & Sharing: Rose's Rambling Red, Blue Moon Deaux, Ruck & Maul Red, American Devil Indian Pale Ale, Quiet Creek Kolsch, Northwest Pale Ale, Golden Czech Pils, Beach Babe Blonde, Grand Bohemian Czech Pils Trois, Diablo IPA+, Columbus Cascading Amber Ale, High Country Gold Lager Ale,
Fermenting: Quiet Kreek Kolsch Deaux, First Pitch Pilsner Ale Trois
Conditioning: Nut Brown Vienna Lager Ale, PilotHouse Pilsner, Johnny Silk's ESB 4th gen, Blue Moon Clone Trois, Fallen Friar Deaux, Arizona Country Canadian Draft Deaux
Drinking & Sharing: Rose's Rambling Red, Blue Moon Deaux, Ruck & Maul Red, American Devil Indian Pale Ale, Quiet Creek Kolsch, Northwest Pale Ale, Golden Czech Pils, Beach Babe Blonde, Grand Bohemian Czech Pils Trois, Diablo IPA+, Columbus Cascading Amber Ale, High Country Gold Lager Ale,
Re: What are you drinking?
While brewing a Belgian Witbier, I am drinking a Grand Bohemian Czech Pilsner from last winter, fermented as a true lager. Still great after a year in the bottle.
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Re: What are you drinking?
"Gandhi-Bot" From New England Brewery - Fantastic. It's a must have for all you IPA fans. So glad it's on the shelves in our local stores now. Almost as good as a Heady T. Look it up. Find it & get it.
Re: What are you drinking?
Lager Miser by Kealia.
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Re: What are you drinking?
Coffee.
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
Are awake through years with transferred touch and go on glowing
For long years.
And for this reason some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
― D.H. Lawrence
Are awake through years with transferred touch and go on glowing
For long years.
And for this reason some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
― D.H. Lawrence
Re: What are you drinking?
New glarus brewing co. spotted cow is what I'm trying out now. It's a farmhouse ale , and me likey lots.
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Re: What are you drinking?
As my sig says I'm drinking my English Brown Ale. But due to a cranium malfunction it's flat (no carb.). When I bottled it I added the recommended amount of sugar - I used table sugar just for a change - directly to the bottling bucket as I was racking from the fermenter. I was careful not to stir too hard and introduce oxygen to the beer as it racked. But when I got to the last bottles I saw that there was all my sugar in a sodden, undissolved heap at the bottom of the bucket. I was thinking then of just adding sugar to the bottles but was afraid of bottle bombs.
Oh well. It tastes good still and I learned, yet again, another lesson.
Oh well. It tastes good still and I learned, yet again, another lesson.
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
Are awake through years with transferred touch and go on glowing
For long years.
And for this reason some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
― D.H. Lawrence
Are awake through years with transferred touch and go on glowing
For long years.
And for this reason some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
― D.H. Lawrence
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Re: What are you drinking?
Drinking a lite summer session brew I did up. Brewed, LBC 2 weeks, kegged for 1 week. I think I found the secret (?) for Miller lite. I swear it taste identical to it. I'll drink it up, but will change it up somehow next batch.... miller lite.....
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