BeerBorg

A cup of black coffee for now.

Old Mr. Beer Oatmeal Stout. Yum.

Rolling Rock tallboys. Cheap and refreshing.

Red wine for now... time to make a trip to the garage for a bit.

Great Divide Hercules IPA
It is freaking AWESOME!

Had a Belgian Dubble based on Mr Beer's recipe and then a Wee Heavy also based on their recipe. The two have identical grain bills with 1 can of Bewitched Amber and 1 lb of amber DME. The Dubbel used T-58 yeast and I did a 15 minute boil with Saaz hops. The Wee Heavy used S-04 and no additional hops. It is amazing to taste the difference between the two beers. The Belgian definitely has fruity elements and the Wee Heavy has a maltier taste.

Gymrat wrote:Great Divide Hercules IPA
It is freaking AWESOME!

+1 Roger, it's one of the best of it's style I have ever had...

Was able to get it around here once and a while...

Gonna have to drive around and check again!

Drinking a variety of things from my pipeline, one of which is the latest incarnation of Trilby Brown Ale. Still not where I want it. I think I'm going to eliminate the chocolate malt entirely and pursue the color and flavors I want with crystal and caramel malts.

Don't get me wrong; this is drinkable, and by no means unpleasant. It's just not what I was aiming for. It's more of a porter in color and profile, so it's back to the drawing board.

This past week I blew through a batch of MrB ... the pale ale, what's it called, craft .... which I had added some extra hops boiled into their half pound lme to the mix. It was good, but eh ... yah good.

I prefer the AG's. This weekend I tapped a 5 gal corny of a batch I call "Dan's Wood Ale". I named it after my friend Dan who passed away



... he always said he didn't like beer because it tastes like wood.

I don't have my notes in front of me, but it's two row base, a bit of 60L, and a nice hop schedule of northern and centennial. Whatever malt of hops I used, he'd say, 'it taste like wood, can I have a diet coke?" You don't have to like beer to be my friend ....

I have opened the DS Brewery this morning and am making a 5 gal Fat Tire clone. I am drinking a 1554 at 10:AM Do I have a drinking problem?

DS Brewery wrote:I have opened the DS Brewery this morning and am making a 5 gal Fat Tire clone. I am drinking a 1554 at 10:AM Do I have a drinking problem?

If you're drinking at 10AM and you're not tailgating, then I'd say yes.

FedoraDave wrote:Drinking a variety of things from my pipeline, one of which is the latest incarnation of Trilby Brown Ale. Still not where I want it. I think I'm going to eliminate the chocolate malt entirely and pursue the color and flavors I want with crystal and caramel malts.

Don't get me wrong; this is drinkable, and by no means unpleasant. It's just not what I was aiming for. It's more of a porter in color and profile, so it's back to the drawing board.

I'm in the same boat Dave, I keep hoping my brown ale will mellow out but I think I've come to the conclusion that I don't care for chocolate malt. We tweaked ours and taken it out but haven't brewed it yet.


I think I'm going to be drinking a lot of lemon shandies. I made a huge batch of lemonade for the kids at the home brewers club picnic yesterday and they all brought their own drinks. :opps:

Currently at Sparkling Ice Lemonade with Tea. Basically a carbonated Arnold Palmer.

Drinking my #1323 Innkeeper, a Northern Brewer clone of Timothy Taylor's Landlord bitter (CAMRA beer of the year). At 16 days in bottle, it is a good example of an English bitter. Definitely a session ale at 4.3 ABV.

Whoop'n up on some schnopps.