What are you drinking tonight 2023.

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Moving on to the Best Bitter now

 

[Sneedhearn]

A local brew.

 

[foxy]

Tapped my King Keg tonight, kegged at 2 C so didn't add sugar to carbonate there was enough dissolved CO2 in the beer for a cask ale. It is an Irish Extra Stout based on Gordon Strong's interpretation of O’Hara’s Leann Folláin after his visit to the brewery and talk to the brewer.
A beautiful dark mahogany stout poured like a Guinness with gentle pressure on the bag inside the keg, very fine carbonation resulting in fine bubbles. Just right, glad now I didn't add any sugar.

 

[Donegal john]

Tapped my King Keg tonight, kegged at 2 C so didn't add sugar to carbonate there was enough dissolved CO2 in the beer for a cask ale. It is an Irish Extra Stout based on Gordon Strong's interpretation of O’Hara’s Leann Folláin after his visit to the brewery and talk to the brewer.
A beautiful dark mahogany stout poured like a Guinness with gentle pressure on the bag inside the keg, very fine carbonation resulting in fine bubbles. Just right, glad now I didn't add any sugar.
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That’s a lovely stout by o haras. Must search out the recipe there.

 

[foxy]

That’s a lovely stout by o haras. Must search out the recipe there.

https://byo.com/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/Irish-Extra-Stout.pdf

 

[Donegal john]

https://byo.com/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/Irish-Extra-Stout.pdf

Magic. Cheers @foxy

 

[Cwrw666]

Waiting for the wort to get up to the boil. Amber cascade to keep me going.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Pipster Pale to start today.

 

[YeastFace]

1851 Beamish Running Porter.

The rough edges from the brown malt have conditioned out now, and has taken on more of a fruity, slightly liquorice flavour.

Not sure I'm too keen on brewing with brown malt though. Takes too long to round out for my palate and I don't have enough tap space to have something conditioning for 6+ weeks). Even though I adore Fuller's London Porter, for example.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

1851 Beamish Running Porter.

The rough edges from the brown malt have conditioned out now, and has taken on more of a fruity, slightly liquorice flavour.

Not sure I'm too keen on brewing with brown malt though. Takes too long to round out for my palate and I don't have enough tap space to have something conditioning for 6+ weeks). Even though I adore Fuller's London Porter, for example.

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Looks deelish, would you mind sharing the recipe?

 

[obscure]

A pint of Weissbier main thought is I need to get another batch of this on.

 

[dave_77]

Warming up with New Zealand Pils hopped with Nelson & Motueka. Slowly clearing and tasting a little crisper..only 2 weeks in keg.

 

[YeastFace]

Looks deelish, would you mind sharing the recipe?

Edd Mather kindly dug it out for me.

He has published a slightly different version on his site - (BEAMISH & CRAWFORD : RUNNING PORTER 1850`S)

I split the pale malt to half Chevallier and half mild to combat some of the high FG issues people seemed to be having with Chevallier.

Used Nottingham (well M42) as Irish Ale yeast wouldn't attenuate anywhere enough and still didn't get as low as the recipe.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Edd Mather kindly dug it out for me.

He has published a slightly different version on his site - (BEAMISH & CRAWFORD : RUNNING PORTER 1850`S)

I split the pale malt to half Chevallier and half mild to combat some of the efficiency issues people seemed to be having with Chevallier.

Used Nottingham as Irish Ale yeast wouldn't attenuate anywhere enough and still didn't get as low as the recipe.

Thank you!

 

[Donegal john]

A refreshing pint of aspalls cydre in the unexpected evening sun. Slainte mo charas

 

[YeastFace]

After still being a bit hazy from the keg, Irish Red has dropped crystal.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Having given the Pipster a sound thrashing (and a small digression with a Belgian Blonde), on to the Best Bitter. Huzzah!

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Didn't get a picture, but having a double Apricot gin and lemonade. I'm celebrating because my grand-doggy Max, is finally on the way home to his mummy and daddy in Virginia, and has not long since taken off.

 

[531Man]

Then,

Irish beers.
I was going to share the Helles, but it was 'tired', BBE 28.04.23.
Strangely the next beer is lushly hoppy but older, BBE 26.03.23.
Perhaps it's all those hops, Cryo Pop in the boil (had to look that up) and double dry hopped with Strata and Idaho 7.

I felt I deserved a beer as I had successfully replaced the front derailleur on my bike as it had become sloppy after 40 years in service.
They don't make them like they used to!
So I replaced with a good condition period set:

 

[531Man]

Didn't get a picture, but having a double Apricot gin and lemonade. I'm celebrating because my grand-doggy Max, is finally on the way home to his mummy and daddy in Virginia, and has not long since taken off.

how's the diet going?