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I'm glad that it went well. Sounds like a great day and I can almost smell it from here.

I'm very excited about this batch.....<taps fingers impatiently>

Sounds so good. Too many recipes to make, not enough time to do it.

Great brew day guys.

BlackDuck wrote:Sounds so good. Too many recipes to make, not enough time to do it.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Ron, have you had an official taste of this yet? Ours is nearing the dry hop stage so it'll be a long while before it's taste time but I'm very curious if you've had the royal cup yet.

Not yet. Sadly, my household has been sick since last Friday so I'm just getting back on my feet now.
Hopefully tomorrow!

Sorry to hear that news.....get well soon. I am nerding for your thoughts on it.

Ron, oh Ron.....I must hear how yours turned out. I can't wait. Drink it now and tell me you're happy!

OK Ron, I don't like the game you're playing.....it's been 12 hours since I posted and still no reports on your Fresh Squeezed so I can only assume it sucks to bad, you don't want to talk about it.
That and the fact that the 49ers will feel some DOME-INATION today.

Well, I figured out that I still don't have 100% of my taste buds by tasting something else, but I had to try this last night.

Color-wises, it's got that nice darker orange color that Fresh Squeezed has. The aroma was a little light at first but:
1) I realized the beer was too cold (need to readjust my beer fridge after moving it)
2) As mentioned, my nose is still a but stuffy

The aroma seemed pretty spot on me, and as it warmed up it got even better. The carb level was a little low, but the bottle I tried barely had two weeks to carb before I put it in the fridge. It was there for a week since I got sick so the others have had an extra week now to carb up so they should be better.

The taste was good - nice hop flavor and a crisp finish, at first. I think because it was cold the finish was a bit 'clean' or it could be because of the use of Magnum (my error) instead of Nugget for bittering. Again, as it warmed it got better. But to be honest, I was so happy to have a beer that this drank pretty quickly

I think it's going to be very close. I'll try to get my hands on the original again soon but so far I'm very happy with what I tasted last night. I'm going to put another in the fridge today to drink on Tuesday and will post more then.

Thanks for the update. I should be kegging my version and RedBEERd's next weekend so it'll be a while before I can give you my thoughts.
It looks good to me but I agree, 2 weeks is early and it's still green.

Yeah, a bit green and my tastes are off but even with that in mind I did like this one and think it's going to be really good. I can tell you that last night's went down pretty easy.

Beer-lord wrote:That and the fact that the 49ers will feel some DOME-INATION today.

Damn close game so far. Not sure why we can't catch the ball so well today.

OR maybe you prefer?

Did you see Graham try to cheat to win the game???