What are you drinking tonight 2023.

[SMP Brewery]

Glad you enjoyed. I'm from West Yorkshire, and I believe they (and Scotland) have the best breweries / beer

Obviously beer from Yorkshire is the best.

I’m going to be a bit contentious here in that I’ve struggled to find beer in Scotland that I truly liked, the best by a long way was from the Cairngorm Brewery. Perhaps I’ve just tried the wrong beers.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Obviously beer from Yorkshire is the best.

I’m going to be a bit contentious here in that I’ve struggled to find beer in Scotland that I truly liked, the best by a long way was from the Cairngorm Brewery. Perhaps I’ve just tried the wrong beers.

Overtone, Vault City and Brewdog are my faves.

To be honest, if I could only drink one Brewery for the rest of my days it'd be Overtone. They're expensive, but their ingredients are natural and quality.

You get what you pay for. Just my opinion lol

 

[SMP Brewery]

Onto a Saison now, good job it’s not a School night.

 

[SMP Brewery]

To be honest, if I could only drink one Brewery for the rest of my days it'd be Overtone. They're expensive, but their ingredients are natural and quality.

I’ll have to source some then

 

[Twostage]

Todays job was to replace my beer lines into the beer cooler and build a new python. That all went well, however…

I then decided to give the stainless steel coils in the chiller a caustic clean and I leaned an important lesson - not all plastics are able to cope with caustic. Most can but I used a plastic drinks bottle and the caustic ate through it giving me a lovely clean-up job and staining my nice smart varnished brewshed interior. Gutted about that but no use crying over spilt milk, lesson learned. Anyway, in brighter news, I’ve got my beers back on and now making use of my new tap board. My first beer tonight is the Schwarzbier.

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Now that looks like a proper setup.

 

[SMP Brewery]

Now that looks like a proper setup.

You can do anything with photoshop these days

 

[Twostage]

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The malt and yeast part where the same as my Schwarzbier recipe and then I switch it to American hops for a change

Cheers.

So you've fermented at pressure. I'll have to use the brew fridge set to 12c which is fine. Was all of the water RO or just the a sparge?

 

[YeastFace]

Met some friends at Fairytale Farm near Chipping Norton and managed to swing a visit to Hook Norton in. Few pints there and got some takeaways. Would like to do the tour, as it's a vast site with a lovely Victorian tower brewery.

Hooky Mild. Opted for the more modern glass.

 

[dave_77]

Cheers.

So you've fermented at pressure. I'll have to use the brew fridge set to 12c which is fine. Was all of the water RO or just the a sparge?

I usually blend typically it might be 70-80 % RO with tap water..Kent tap water is hard

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

American (Pipster) Pale.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Holiday tomorrow so starting with -

 

[dave_77]

This will be the end of the weekend ..tasty Bock

 

[Leon103]

One of the best days of the year.

Plenty of pilsner needed to keep cool

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I’m having a Schwarzbier sitting in the shade of the gazebo, it’s a bit too warm today to be sitting in the sun

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Like yesterday I’ve moved onto the next tap for a Weissbier. Lovely clove and banana flavour followed by a bit of grainy wheat and then almost nothing at all. Maybe just a hint of creaminess from the yeast. So easy drinking.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Now I’ve warmed up I’m having a guest beer, this 5.5% NZ Pale is from @Tess Tickle's Brewery

In appearance it’s a lovely vibrant golden-yellow colour with a white head that quickly faded to a light foam over the surface. Carbonation was about medium and the beer is fairly hazy as you can see.

The aroma is really just fruit, lots of fruit. Apricots, peaches, limes, something tropical - maybe papaya?

The flavour is lovely, not as fruity as the aroma might suggest but if it were I’d probably be drinking a smoothie! I do get some tropical flavours though and something a little dank, like Mosaic can be, along with floral and herbal notes. After a while some grainy malt starts to show through but remains subtle. The bitterness in this beer goes almost unnoticed but it’s there and is nicely balanced, and the finish is crisp and dry.

Overall I’d say this is a very clean and flavoursome beer and definitely one to enjoy on a hot summers day. Thanks very much Tess for sending me this beer, thoroughly enjoyable.

 

[SMP Brewery]

Wasn’t going to have a drink but after sanding down the walls and ceiling of the conservatory, decided a quick half was in order before walking the dogs

 

[Caramel Ox]

Almost the last bottle of the Patersbier to celebrate late summer!

 

[SMP Brewery]

No will power, but as I’m cooking Barnsley Chops on the Kamado one has to have a beer. Golden ale, can’t be much left now.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Pirate Pale.