Dark malts are nice but small quantities are required to get the best results in my view.
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Dark malts are nice but small quantities are required to get the best results in my view.
Yeah it’s my go to beer when stocks are low.Yesterday I tried Vocation Love & Hate and was quite surprised - I didn’t enjoy it!
It looked interesting and several people seem to like it but not do much to my taste, it tasted fruity then bitter and finished dirty (not in a good way), like orange peel pith almost.
Tonight I’m back on solid ground with my “Trinity” brown ale. Hmmmm!
PS Love Punk IPA @pms67
I’m waiting on An Ankoù making a Punk clone!!! No pressure mate
There's a tiny amount (1.9%) of black malt in this one, most of the dark part of the malt bill is chocolate. But it still gives a slight astringency that I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm a bit sensitive to. I do get a bit funny with some flavours - I can't live with S04 and also CML real ale yeasts, for example, because I get a tartness with those that ruins a beer for me, even though it's very slight. I'm a flavour wierdo!
Eldorado pale, mosaic pale, American stout...
There's a tiny amount (1.9%) of black malt in this one, most of the dark part of the malt bill is chocolate. But it still gives a slight astringency that I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm a bit sensitive to. I do get a bit funny with some flavours - I can't live with S04 and also CML real ale yeasts, for example, because I get a tartness with those that ruins a beer for me, even though it's very slight. I'm a flavour wierdo!
Maybe try a caramalt with a middling EBC -perhaps in the 300-500 range?
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I don’t like any of those yeasts either, much better options availableThere's a tiny amount (1.9%) of black malt in this one, most of the dark part of the malt bill is chocolate. But it still gives a slight astringency that I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm a bit sensitive to. I do get a bit funny with some flavours - I can't live with S04 and also CML real ale yeasts, for example, because I get a tartness with those that ruins a beer for me, even though it's very slight. I'm a flavour wierdo!
Well Hazelwood Brewery...me being an honorary "cowboy"...I have to use it....
(Above statement may not be true.)
(Above statement may not be true.)
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I've got some cowboy boots so I might have to add El Dorado to my next order.
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I agree, definite sharpness to the CML real ale. Not just you my friendThere's a tiny amount (1.9%) of black malt in this one, most of the dark part of the malt bill is chocolate. But it still gives a slight astringency that I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm a bit sensitive to. I do get a bit funny with some flavours - I can't live with S04 and also CML real ale yeasts, for example, because I get a tartness with those that ruins a beer for me, even though it's very slight. I'm a flavour wierdo!
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Have you tried hot or cold steeping the roasted grains? If making a porter, oatmeal stout or mild I cold steep the grains to eliminate any astringency. Irish Stout I mash the roasted grains to get the astringency flavour that you get with a Guinness.There's a tiny amount (1.9%) of black malt in this one, most of the dark part of the malt bill is chocolate. But it still gives a slight astringency that I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm a bit sensitive to. I do get a bit funny with some flavours - I can't live with S04 and also CML real ale yeasts, for example, because I get a tartness with those that ruins a beer for me, even though it's very slight. I'm a flavour wierdo!
I kind of have a 'feeling' about mild (in its many guises in history) - it's a working man's drink that was brewed in bulk to be enjoyed in bulk. So I want to perfect it using simple methods that sort of fit with that feeling. Don't get me wrong, it isn't that I think is should be rubbish or substandard, but fantastic in its simplicity. If I was brewing something a bit more grand, or fancy, like an imperial whatnot or something, then if happily embrace cold steeping but I just don't think it suits the style. It's probably a daft theory, but that's the great thing about home-brewing, you get to be the mad eccentric owner of your own brewery (but without putting a while workforce's livelihoods at risk!)
tsk, tsk steve u should know betterThis beautifully hoppy IPA by 8 Degrees, incredibly fruity and juicy and downright delicious.
PS. Excuse the terrible pour, bloody activator glass
. duval glasses for beer thats under carbed 
at least go for erdinger worth the extra 60p or so.
I think those with Western attire... cowboys, cowgirls or red Indians should post a picture...
um...
diablo 8% belgian duvel style beer
star city dipa (like a mr. president but 7.4% - however 440ml instead of 330ml)
mango tango 2
mr president
and to finish off st. bernadus abt 12 (the 10%) one.... happy days
diablo 8% belgian duvel style beer
star city dipa (like a mr. president but 7.4% - however 440ml instead of 330ml)
mango tango 2
mr president
and to finish off st. bernadus abt 12 (the 10%) one.... happy days
Hi Clint, whilst at the moment I no longer identify as western (i'm not offended BTW) I'm more interplanetary ATM... I think you wanted a pic. i.e. post a pic or it didn't happen. In a rare moment of lucidity I managed to upload a pic to the mothership....
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