What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[pilgrimhudd]

Cheers dude. I am in the same boat, I have never even tasted one before. It has a lot of first's for me. First time making a starter and using liquid yeast. First time brewing at lager temps and using temperature control fridge.
The beer itself is still young at just over 4 weeks. To me it has a nice clean profile with a good balanced malt flavour. Hopefully it develops more.
Thank you for the review, I just popped one in to chill to try again

It was good mate, yes a nice clean profile should have been what I said. What strength is it?

 

[samale]

It was good mate, yes a nice clean profile should have been what I said. What strength is it?

It came in at 5.8%. I will try your beer tomorrow night

 

[dave_77]

My Rye IPA with Columbus & Comet 5.8% went well with some cheese and biscuits.

 

[Leon103]

The caravan is packed and hooked up so time for a pint.

My kviek ipa, the photo doesn't do it justice, it's my murkiest beer to date despite it supposed to be west coast style. I blame the yeast. Only 2 days in the keg, 11 days since brew day, not a bad beer just needs time to condition slightly.

 

[Leon103]

Now giving this a try. It's ok for what it is. I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it.

 

[samale]

Tonight I have the pleasure of trying @Pennine spring stout. Imperial stout just coming in at under 10%
I was warned in advance the beer was well carbonated. The swing top opened with a bang. The beer is well carbonated and pours with a nice tan head. The carbonation settles and the head fades to light sheen. The beer is jet black, really nice.
Aroma I am getting dark stone fruit, sweat coffee, vanilla, dark roast with a slight alcohol.
The flavour matches well with the aroma. I am getting roasted coffee, vanilla with a slight peppery after taste. It's full bodied as expected and coats the mouth. The beer warms your throat just to remind you of its strength. You can tell it's a high abv but not in a harsh way.
Over all this is a great beer. The flavours all play well together. I can easily say this is the best stout I have had. It was a pleasure to drink. My only criticism was the carbonation, It kicked the yeast up a bit. My first glass was perfection the second had some sediment.
Thank you again for sharing

 

[marshbrewer]

My house brown ale now. The brown malt is becoming more mild and it's lovely, but not right. Needs thinning out with #3 invert, as I think I've said before. About a million times.

 

[samale]

On to my own imperial stout. Just for comparison

 

[phildo79]

Where's your local out of curiosity?

Dunmurry. The pub was called the black swan but was closed throughout my entire childhood. Then, when I turned 18, it reopened under the name 'the motte and bailey'. Class little bar. They then had a refurb and made it bigger (not better) and called it McGlones. It's now called The Kitchen bar but nothing else has changed in the last ten years

 

[phildo79]

Galway bay have done nice beer. Which did you have

Althea pale ale and full sail IPA

 

[Pennine]

Tonight I have the pleasure of trying @Pennine spring stout. Imperial stout just coming in at under 10%
I was warned in advance the beer was well carbonated. The swing top opened with a bang. The beer is well carbonated and pours with a nice tan head. The carbonation settles and the head fades to light sheen. The beer is jet black, really nice.
Aroma I am getting dark stone fruit, sweat coffee, vanilla, dark roast with a slight alcohol.
The flavour matches well with the aroma. I am getting roasted coffee, vanilla with a slight peppery after taste. It's full bodied as expected and coats the mouth. The beer warms your throat just to remind you of its strength. You can tell it's a high abv but not in a harsh way.
Over all this is a great beer. The flavours all play well together. I can easily say this is the best stout I have had. It was a pleasure to drink. My only criticism was the carbonation, It kicked the yeast up a bit. My first glass was perfection the second had some sediment.
Thank you again for sharing
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thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed it so much. definitely need to go a bit easier on the carbonation next time.

i have to say im pretty impressed you drank both in one evening!

 

[samale]

thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed it so much. definitely need to go a bit easier on the carbonation next time.

i have to say im pretty impressed you drank both in one evening!

I got two packets of T-58 yeast. This is definitely a beer I want to try brewing myself. I was on your brew thread looking for your notes. I can't seem to see it. What temp did you mash in at

 

[Pennine]

I got two packets of T-58 yeast. This is definitely a beer I want to try brewing myself. I was on your brew thread looking for your notes. I can't seem to see it. What temp did you mash in at

looks like i did a 90 min mash at 66c in my robobrew, i used 20l of water and did not sparge (or if i did it was only a couple of litres i can't remember exactly) and ended up with about 15l in the fermenter. i would probably go to 64-65c next time though to make it a bit more fermentable.

also did you post your recipe somewhere?

 

[pilgrimhudd]

I got two packets of T-58 yeast. This is definitely a beer I want to try brewing myself. I was on your brew thread looking for your notes. I can't seem to see it. What temp did you mash in at

My most recent stout was done with t-58, only 4 weeks in bottle but far superior to my fishermans stout, malt bill was only a little different (to make it darker) but taste is light years apart.

 

[samale]

My most recent stout was done with t-58, only 4 weeks in bottle but far superior to my fishermans stout, malt bill was only a little different (to make it darker) but taste is light years apart.

I was doing some reading up on the yeast during the week. I can see some people using it in Belgian pale ales, Saison and dubbels.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Yeah I can see it being good for a saison and a dubbel definitely.

 

[Pennine]

i think i am going to try it in an ipa at some point, just need to figure out which hops would work best. wonder if it would be like houbblon chouffe?

@pilgrimhudd what did you notice that is different about it in your fisherman's stout?

 

[samale]

i think i am going to try it in an ipa at some point, just need to figure out which hops would work best. wonder if it would be like houbblon chouffe?

@pilgrimhudd what did you notice that is different about it in your fisherman's stout?

I think it would play well in a rye IPA.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

i think i am going to try it in an ipa at some point, just need to figure out which hops would work best. wonder if it would be like houbblon chouffe?

@pilgrimhudd what did you notice that is different about it in your fisherman's stout?

Dificult to put my finger on it.... taste obviously, theres that belgian spiciness that I didnt get before. Theres more body to the beer for sure, but that could be inconsistencies in my brew of course but I tried to keep it pretty much the same bar adding a touch more roast barley and choc. Aroma much different, more fruity. I think I shall have a side by side comparison next time.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

I think it would play well in a rye IPA.

Well carbed to make the most out of a good aroma hop, I think you may be on to something.