What are you drinking tonight 2021?

[samale]

Really nice porter

 

[Craftman]

A bottle of my 6.3% black IPA... well if I'm only having one

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

A bottle of my 6.3% black IPA... well if I'm only having oneView attachment 54857

One is a start…

 

[samale]

A bottle of my 6.3% black IPA... well if I'm only having oneView attachment 54857

I need to get a black IPA on, what hops did you go with

 

[Craftman]

Think it was Vic secret, citra and amarillo - loosely based on Greg Hughes recipe

 

[DavidDetroit]

Watching American football and drinking a beer, my wife bought, and made on the other side of Michigan. It's pretty good. I don't think it gets a fair shake. It might be slightly basic juxtaposed with some but it's at least an 8/10.

 

[samale]

Probably my last tonight. I plan to brew a tripel soon. This is really good

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Probably my last tonight. I plan to brew a tripel soon. This is really good
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A Tripel is on my to-do list too, it’s in my third batch of four brews - together with a single, saison, and sour.

 

[samale]

A Tripel is on my to-do list too, it’s in my third batch of four brews - together with a single, saison, and sour.

I have a single in the fermentor. I will reuse the yeast WLP 550 to brew a dubbel and a tripel.

 

[dave_77]

Starting of with @dave_77 Belgian IPA. This was part of the 4 way brew off.

Lovely golden ale with perfect carbonation. Nice white head which lasts
Aroma: this is really good, I am picking big fruit, citrus, white grape

Flavour: much like the aroma, white grape, citrus and pear. Yeast is very restricted. Really smooth bitterness

This is a really enjoyable beer, not sure on how it scored. If I was scoring it personally it would be in 38 - 40 points bracket. Packed full of flavour from the hops, yeast flavour was faint. Nice well balanced beer. Never used archer or Godiva hops

As always thank you for sending
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Cheers for the comments. It didn't get scored as well as I hoped mostly down to lacking in hop flavour. Glad you enjoyed, I like the hop combo and would definitely use Godiva again maybe with some German hops in a Belgian pale or in a Golden ale.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

[...] would definitely use Godiva again maybe with some German hops in a Belgian pale or in a Golden ale.

That's useful to know, as I've got a pack in the freezer and was wondering what to use it with.

 

[dave_77]

That's useful to know, as I've got a pack in the freezer and was wondering what to use it with.

Definitely something less malty to let the flavours come through.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Went to the post-office to send a beer. Waitrose is next door and in Waitrose this tasty bitter. I’m having it while making a beef chilli.

 

[An Ankoù]

A bit murky and more than the usual amount of floaters, whiffs a bit, too, like a sumo-wrestler's jock strap, but hell: a beer's a beer!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

This is Summer Breeze, brewed on June 6th with the intention of testing some brewing science. This test (there’s no formal method or assessment so more of a personal experiment) was to see if mash hopping might help stave off oxidation. It may be a little soon to tell but after four months the colour is still pretty bright and the tropical aroma/flavour is still there - though *maybe* not quite as bright?

 

[An Ankoù]

This is Summer Breeze, brewed on June 6th with the intention of testing some brewing science. This test (there’s no formal method or assessment so more of a personal experiment) was to see if mash hopping might help stave off oxidation. It may be a little soon to tell but after four months the colour is still pretty bright and the tropical aroma/flavour is still there - though *maybe* not quite as bright?

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Very interesting. Why should mash hopping stave off oxidation. Excuse my ignorance, but I've never heard of that.
Quite happy to help you test the samples, though!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Very interesting. Why should mash hopping stave off oxidation. Excuse my ignorance, but I've never heard of that.
Quite happy to help you test the samples, though!

The alpha-acids “complex” copper ions in the mash. Metal ions are pro-oxidative so the fewer that make it through to the final product the better - recognising that some copper is needed by the yeast.

These alpha-acids don’t make the beer more bitter because they have been changed in the process and don’t isomerise in the boil.

1-2g/l is all that’s required but use a high alpha-acid hop.

If it wouldn’t cost me almost as much as the air fare to send a few bottles…

 

[An Ankoù]

A bottle of my 6.3% black IPA... well if I'm only having oneView attachment 54857

I used to say that to the ex. She never could get her head around the idea that "one" could be one pint, one quart, one gallon, even one half-gallon, one barrel.
I did try!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I used to say that to the ex. She never could get her head around the idea that "one" could be one pint, one quart, one gallon, even one half-gallon, one barrel.
I did try!

Maybe name your beer “One” then when you say you only having the “One” you can have it all night

 

[An Ankoù]

Maybe name your beer “One” then when you say you only having the “One” you can have it all night

Should have, perhaps, but there's no need now. The Wise One understands these matters fully. She'll never make a session drinker. Not on pints of Belgian trippel, but she does like a beer.