What are you drinking tonight 2024.

[foxy]

Perfect, @foxy . The first pint is poured perfectly and is crystal clear. The next is a little bit cloudy as caution is thrown to the wind. I'd like to see the 3rd and 4th pourings as a happy sentiment of WTF begins to settle in.


What's Boston Bitter?

Unlike some I put my beer somewhere cool to condition, it takes a little longer but does become crystal and bright. While the bitter has been conditioning for some time the Nancy Naylor has had only 10 days of conditioning but will become clear, one of the previous batch.

Boston Bitter is a really pleasant bitter, full title Poes Boston Bitter after Edgar Alan Poe who died at age 40 of alcoholic poisoning, I did read somewhere that Mark Twain's favourite ale was Bass, though Poe's time line is slightly earlier he could have been drinking Bass IPA (which would have been fairly strong in his day) in preference to the pumpkin ales the colonials were making. A Bass clone is another I have conditioning at the moment.
https://byo.com/recipe/poes-boston-... is named for,extract weight comes from grain.

 

[foxy]

Imp Mask.
Now 14 months in bottle and oh my g0d it’s good. This time last year it was a sickly dark fruit bomb. Now dark choc roast hits you in the face, but the blackberry and raisin flavours are still there and round everything out perfectly. I’m not sure how I feel about a rebrew with the plan not to touch it for a year

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Always the case when a beer is brewed which should be stored. I am on my last 3 stubbies of Baltic Porter shy of 2 years old, I know I will brew it again and promise myself not to touch them, even though I know it won't work, same as it hasn't worked all the times before.

 

[An Ankoù]

A tale of two Belgians.
Both brewed to the same recipe (though mine ended up having Special B put in that was EBC 150 rather than EBC 400. I'm still not sure how there can be such a difference in colour when ordering special B. Plus, my home made dark sugar syrup may differ in colour than what @UKSkydiver made.

Both lovely beers. The colour was lighter than what the camera makes out
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150 degrees L is very nearly 400 ebc. I reckon they've used the wrong units. These are double roasted malts including: Weyeman Special W, Bestmalz Special X and Simpson's Double Roasted and they all run out at 350 to 400 ebc.

 

[An Ankoù]

Always the case when a beer is brewed which should be stored. I am on my last 3 stubbies of Baltic Porter shy of 2 years old, I know I will brew it again and promise myself not to touch them, even though I know it won't work, same as it hasn't worked all the times before.

I made a baltic, and bottled it in April. It will certainly need a year for it to come good. As its presently lurking in the darkest recesses of my garage, jealously guarded by Aragog and his mates, I reckon there's a very good chance of forgetting all about it until the next clean up.

 

[foxy]

I made a baltic, and bottled it in April. It will certainly need a year for it to come good. As its presently lurking in the darkest recesses of my garage, jealously guarded by Aragog and his mates, I reckon there's a very good chance of forgetting all about it until the next clean up.

Well, tonight I checked my Baltic Porter intending to have a session of dark beer. On checking I have 5 stubbies left, two I drank this evening in the potting shed. I bottled this beer 14-07 22 not a session beer, I had 2 stubbies followed by a longneck of my soured Foreign Extra Stout and that is me for tonight. The wife has already asked about the slurring and swaying.
Although Baltic Porter isn't a generic porter, more a dark lager it is dangerously alcoholic. Yes I will brew Baltic Porter again and I will break my promise not to drink it before maturation, 18 months to two years. The Foreign Extra Stout I have been more patient with but it is tasting mighty fine now. Carbonation is spot on which matters in a well-kept beer the sourness has mellowed and is just right.
Baltic Porter.

Foreign Extra Stout

At the end of the day what do I prefer? The Foreign Extra Stout.

 

[An Ankoù]

The potting shed is, indeed, a den of iniquity. They're the scene of all sorts of goings on; the devil's parlour!
Must get one.

They look a lovely couple of pints, though.
One of my favourite commercial beers is Guinness West Indies Porter. I've brewed some very tssty beers while trying to copy it but haven't got even close to the original.

 

[Agentgonzo]

150 degrees L is very nearly 400 ebc. I reckon they've used the wrong units. These are double roasted malts including: Weyeman Special W, Bestmalz Special X and Simpson's Double Roasted and they all run out at 350 to 400 ebc.

Interesting, but it was definitely a very different coloured malt to the previous order

 

[UKSkydiver]

A tale of two Belgians.
Both brewed to the same recipe (though mine ended up having Special B put in that was EBC 150 rather than EBC 400. I'm still not sure how there can be such a difference in colour when ordering special B. Plus, my home made dark sugar syrup may differ in colour than what @UKSkydiver made.

Both lovely beers. The colour was lighter than what the camera makes out

My Radieuse recipe here

Sugar was basic brown sugar from the cupboard and some purchased dark candi sugar crystals, dissolved 10 or so mins from the end.

I'm glad you liked it!

 

[531Man]

Local craft Pilsner to accompany all sorts of lunch time Greek Cypriot meze salad bits and pieces.
Waimmea and Tettnanger hopped.
I don't remember having encountered these before.
It could be the effect of the sun on the shrunken little grey cells.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

It could be the effect of the sun on the shrunken little grey cells.

…or the other six bottles you had just before!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I’m starting with a lager from No Frills Joe Brewing Company. I see on Facebook you can now get Earnest Joe, one of Jacks beers, in Maidstone Waitrose. As that branch is just down the road from me I shall have to pop in and have a look.

 

[obscure]

A pint of Abbot in a pub near the station (my train home is running late), an example of why I love cask ale.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

A small glass of Schwarzbier.

 

[Bzee]

Undecided

 

[Bzee]

Undecided

 

[pilgrimhudd]

In the spoons whilst the eldest goes dancing, had 1/2 Golden Gate american ipa by a Welsh brewery whose name escapes me. And this one, a 1/2 of a exmoor fox, its very exmoor brewery, lots of ekg I reckon. Probably should have had these the other way around.

 

[Bzee]

Off I go

 

[Leon103]

In the spoons whilst the eldest goes dancing, had 1/2 Golden Gate american ipa by a Welsh brewery whose name escapes me. And this one, a 1/2 of a exmoor fox, its very exmoor brewery, lots of ekg I reckon. Probably should have had these the other way around.

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Conwy brewery

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Conwy brewery

That's the one!

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Back home with a Cali Common!