First Pour Thread

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2015 Oktoberfest Ale. Very nice. Good and malty, slightly sweet with a little nuttiness. Used Notty yeast instead of Dusseldorf with the same grain bill this year. Maybe a little dryer and less sweet. Not bad at all for an Okto Ale.

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Actually last pour. This had so much orange in it it was really quite refreshing and delicious. As you can see all the stuff I did to get it that much orange flavor killed all head retention.

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Looking good!

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Sasquash Pumpkin Porter. Sweeter and less bitter than a stout. Malty, roasted yam and subtle spice. Really fantastic.

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First pour of a newer style homebrew for me. I had my first 'wheat wine' the week before Christmas at a local brewery taproom. It was delicious, so I am trying my hand at a similar beer. My homebrew is pretty tasty, but a bit raw with the alcohol flavor up front. This one is just carbonated, a bit more aging, & continued tasting will be done. It is very cloudy, will use gelatin on the next batch I try. I will also use a different yeast. I used Danstar BRY-97, which started really slowly. This one came out at 10.2% ABV. The fermentables were: 63% Wheat malt, 13% Pale malt, 13% Munich malt, 4% Honey malt, & 7% Cane sugar. Citra hops were also used, but not too apparent in this brew.
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I believe in IPA! First taste of a 2016 brew, brewed on 1/3/16. Belgian IPA, featuring Wyeast 3787 yeast, Pale Malt, Munich Malt, Columbus hops, & Whole leaf Simcoe hops in the keg. This is a double IPA that finished at a whopping 10.3% ABV! Hit finished gravity at 6 days, I then started dry hopping. This one calculates at 97 IBU, but I am really enjoying the aroma & flavor of the dry hop & keg hop additions.
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Definitely ain't nothing wrong with an IPA.
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Go Hawks!
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So sorry it didn't work out. 31 unanswered points in the first half and 24 unanswered points in the second half. A different game.
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Last night's first pour of my Mosaic Pale Ale. Not quite a SMaSH but singularly-hopped.

Super fruity, light and aromatic. It's going to be an easy drinker and I don't see the keg lasting too long.

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2 weeks in the bottle + 2 days on the fridge. It's really good already. This btach has more malt presence and I did better with the bitterness:hop flavor ratio.

It's only going to better!

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It needs to settle and clear a bit, but if it doesn't.....hakuna matada.
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Belgian White Whale Ale. Was supposed to be a Belgian white IPA but the hops didn't come through like I wanted. Still, very tropical and delicious.

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What's better than a first pour pic? A first pour video!

I need more hands than I was born with to be able to hold a glass, pour and take video.

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Nice meringue head on that beer. What a beaut!
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Fist pour from the keg for Big n Juicy (Fresh Squeezed clone).

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