What are you drinking tonight.

dad_of_jon said:

Stigman, beers are in the post (king kong + ?) for best results chill kong well and try it as it warms up to get a range of flavours :thumb:
for the other one best to chill well and drink before warm. you should get quite a lot of lacing on the glass... hint, hint :nod:

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Fantastic I'll look forward to them both mate.
Ill get something to you as soon as possible, I should still have your address.

Pint of my disappointing IPA and two of my very nice old ale.

Cloudwater - IPA Citra Vic Secret.

beautiful beer but not as fresh and juicy as i think it should be

A 3 x 1 gal split batch made with wheat malt, flour and extra dark spraymalt, 15g coriander, and orange peel, CML Kristalweizen yeast - so sort of like a wheat beer. Split after fermentation to dry hop in demijohns : no additions | 10g EKG | 10g EKG + 10g Galaxy.

• No additions is too heavy on the coriander and it almost tastes a bit mediciney. Not awful, 4/10 max.
• 10g EKG + 10g Galaxy - still mediciney, still 4/10 max but with some extra flavours.
• 10 EKG - this is actually good - it doesn't make sense to me. The coriander is buried and there's this lovely British pint flavour and then lower down, almost hidden unless you look for it, the taste of boiled sweets. It's a 7/10.

I thought the EKG on its own would mask less than the one with the Galaxy. The EKG alone is actually pub worthy - that's my benchmark. Not like staggering but you would not question it if you ordered it or guess it was homebrewed.

Now I've got another from a 3 way split batch with 3 different CML yeasts : Kolsh, Real Ale and US Pale. It's the Kolsh and it really is different and... hate to say it... more lagery. It's got a really nice finish and reminds me of that one in a hundred times that you get Kronenbourg and it's actually not bad. It's a 6/10. And pub worthy. People would smash this down. Surprisingly light considering the recipe:

OG: 1.052 FG: 1.006 ABV: 6.0%
Recipe: 708g flour, 809g pale malt, 73g crystal REAL, 411g XD Dme, 301g sugar
Hops: (5g Admiral + 6g Target) @ 60, (20g cascade, 7g citra, 6g columbus) Whirlpool at 78c
Yeast: CML #1 Real Ale, #2 US Pale, #3 Kolsh

Crystal real means it's crystal I bought rather than made myself from base malt. XD Dme is extra dark spraymalt.

I'm going about brewing in a different way - adding and subtracting ingredients to try and get a "mind taste" for them rather than actually brewing something good so I can hopefully think about beer making like you do cooking. I bet there's a German concept for "Mind Taste" like "Verstandgeschmack" but that's just googling words.

Enough drunken outpouring.

Last night I had one of my Coopers Larger that had been in the bottle now for the last two and a half weeks. It was crystal clear and the taste was nice. However, there were few bubbles and the head did not stay around too long. I hope that it will improve with age. So I will be trying it again another week or two. On the whole though I am very impressed and looking forward to a nice drink.

Just a couple tonight....first gh Yorkshire bitter then a sample of an ag user upper American pale which had just over 100g dry hop of citra,simcoe and Amarillo. ...it's just nearly been a month bottled and is crystal...

...Mrs just informed me we're taking pip to puppy class...oops!

Dry Friday, working tomorrow morning and I know what I'm like.

My user upper pale is most delicious! Loads of juicy fruit!

I’m drinking mass produced German lager (Warsteiner and Bitburger) as purchased at the bargain “reduced to clear” price of £1.30 for 660ml. It looks beautiful in my new beer glass:

Wilko Dark velvet stout, nothing added, very liquoricy. I'm impressed :Cheers:

Off on my jollibobs tomorrow, so martini espresso cocktails before tea, a bottle of my Cwtch clone, one of my zeitgeist and a couple of my jackhammers. I'll sort the hangover out in the airport.

A disappointing Market Harborough Hoppy Pale Ale.


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Right, enough of that dry Friday nonsense, overtime's done. Kicked it all off with a Wilko Delicate Pilsner, brewed to 6.5% with a East Kent Golding hop tea and a dry hop, bottled 06/02/18. Surprisingly nice for a £12 kit, had prise my beloveds fingers off the glass to get it back off her.

Good for you! I'm braving a cali common out of the naughty box. ..still way over carbed...might even be a teensy bit off...it is improving after 10 months! The malt aroma now over powers the cabbage! I will finish the buggers!

my rather nice cascade pale ale....which is quite clear!

Now my Yankee pale user upper...oh dear this is barely a month bottled and could easily become my "house beer"....well at least in this style! It is really good! Bitter,juicy pineapple and mango!

Rounding off the evening with a clone of Old Peculiar brewed at the start of December. This is perhaps one of my best ever beers. Very malt forward and with bittering at only 30 IBU's or so. As time goes by, it slowly dawns on me that dark, malty beers are the ones I really like.
Not the fashion, I know, but it is a generalised style to brewing that was very popular as recently as 150 years ago. Blink of eye in geological time.

A lot of Belgian styles, like Dubbel, for instance, have a similar approach. Malt forward, yeast dominant and added sugar to thin out cloying mouth feel tastes from strong beers.

Clint said:

Good for you! I'm braving a cali common out of the naughty box. ..still way over carbed...might even be a teensy bit off...it is improving after 10 months! The malt aroma now over powers the cabbage! I will finish the buggers!

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Love the idea of the naughty box.
I was polishing a few of them off Friday night.


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Now this is a nice Pale ale.
Crisp, hoppy notes, citrus and fresh.


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