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how did you figure out my ibus without knowing what hops i put in? lol

stylistic, obviously

i guess id be a liar if i told you it was a belgian ipa/quad hybrid?

just kidding ofc but seriously i did go about 20 ibus higher than the style

minor minor detail considering mash temp

currently reading about the difference between beano and Amylase powder

really want to do this again but clearly sure if i want to use a trooper bottle on it, but i might...maybe if I help bottle before leaving to splinter black we could do it then?

scratch 36 atm

kbs
adam, how old is this? good stuff, actually thinner than i imagined >.<

beer update

Coalhouse homebrew night was tonight - our amber ale was very well received, went through 12 bottles of it with ease. Irish Stout was good but needs a month of bottle conditioning, there is still some sugar and yeast in it. Had a few each of Maltose Express' Celebration Ale and Schneider Wiese clones, as well as a few pints of Harpoon's Dark Dunkel on cask, pizza made with IBC's Flower Power, some other shared homebrews, and one or two on tap that I don't recall. My good friend Steve (who I have known for nearly a decade) brought a few bottles of his chocolate oatmeal stout and had some amazing feedback on it - it was quite exceptional, four years of work on it made it one of the top brews of a well known and elite variety of beer, and we had several brewers (including Harpoon's rep) comment on how good it was. Thursday we go back to try pizza with dough made with our own beer. Easily the best night I have had in a long time due to old friends, great brews, and having ~15 beers and a tab of under $10.

hmmm 8 months old? It's this years release. I haven't had one recently. Does it still taste/smell like a bourbon espresso?

love bells best brown

I opened the carboy up that has been aging my lambic brew for the past year. Over the course of the last 6 months it has went from smelling like pure vinegar to finally coming into its own and smelling like a funky mess of awesome

I did opposite night tonight

started with flower power
then World wide stout
then a dry cider
then then fidy
then franzenkanner



all free except first weeeeeeeeeeee

Dan drinking hoppy beers is blowing my mind. My how our young grasshopper has grown.

Flower Power is one of the best IPAs on the East Coast, up there with Loose Cannon.

Bought the wine barrel today

adam,

reccomendations have been for old ale and brown ale, most being brown since it would take less time to do

Bells winter white + extra sharp chedder cheese

nom nom nom

I also wish this was clearly a seasonal as it is a very good beer

negative on the brown ale
old ale is going in one of them
stout in another
the 3rd one is up in the air at the moment

lambic/sour or berlinerweis?

eventually after most of the oak and brandy flavors are soaked out of the barrel

Pics!

Putting a Belgian style in that?
I've only had half a dozen or so brews that were aged in wine barrels and 2 of them certainly had unintentional tartness to them.

i had a tilt last night

Mead ofc

biggest facepalm of the year

you made?

I can do so many things that way. We can experiment with so much poop barrel aging it will be awesome. Even doing a 60/40 blend to make a braggot

so much potential for awesome wine flavors that will just be lost in that disgusting fermented honey mixture

you shut your fucking mouth when talking about the best fermented beverage

It's the oldest fermented beverage jew, clearly the best

You have hardly had any to speak of, if any

compared to beer, that is somewhat accurate but i have had enough of it from homebrewers and professionals to know that it isn't for me

Ahhh what to buy what to buy, I have 150$ in homebrew gift cards

Already got blichman beer gun and a bucket from my dad.

Still iso:
Bigger flasks for starters
ph meeter
march pump
wine bottles (various sizes and styles)
bottle wax
wine saver
plate chiller


donno what to do here

Start drinking and cooking with inexpensive wine, save the bottles.

I have at least 25 gallons of wine to bottle, a bit late for that. Also I want some 375mL sized bottles

shitcan the bigger flasks and buy the necessary equipment to make yourself a stir plate

I have a stir plate, but only a 1000mL flask

btw I love orval, this would be my go to beer if I could get that much of it

Young it's nb, but the older it gets the more funky it gets. I wish I had a stash that was more than a year or so old

I ended up pitching about a teaspoon of amalyse formula into one of the 6 gallon carboys. It took a few days but it kickstarted the fermentation again so I added some to the other carboys as well. A week later the first addition carboy reached full krausen for a second time during primary. I now have big hopes for this brew.

I need to take gravities again to see where we are at but I'm thinking I got it to drop a few points like I hoped it would. I'm gonna go ahead and blend the 3 gallon carboy in with the other 2 and cold crash them for a month. While cold crashing I'm adding bourbon soaked oak to one.

cool m8, hopefully it is clearly too dry

I'll find out here shortly, I'd rather have it dry and higher alcohol than cloyingly sweet

Shipped Joes box of beer today

My nipples are too small for the gas tubing I ordered. Are you fucking kidding me

Adam do you think I can find 5/16" disconnects at home depot to replace my 1/4" ones?

That's a shame, it's going to get returned to you. I don't think he's home for a week yet?

Wait you did what with your nipples?

Dude...high pressure tubing doesn't even come in 1/4 internal diameter

Nipple size on quick disconnects