What are you drinking tonight 2025

[obscure]

Taste wise my Kölsch is pretty good, and I’ve ordered the grain for another batch but as suggested by @.Peter. I will be adding 5% Carapils to the grain bill to hopefully give it a somewhat better head (also I really must remember to add the Irish moss to hopefully help with clarity). Ah well live and learn, and it’s still very drinkable despite its issues.


For comparison how it should actually look I have a long way to go.

 

[Leon103]

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Taste wise my Kölsch is pretty good, and I’ve ordered the grain for another batch but as suggested by @.Peter. I will be adding 5% Carapils to the grain bill to hopefully give it a somewhat better head (also I really must remember to add the Irish moss to hopefully help with clarity). Ah well live and learn, and it’s still very drinkable despite its issues.

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For comparison how it should actually look I have a long way to go.

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Taste wise my Kölsch is pretty good, and I’ve ordered the grain for another batch but as suggested by @.Peter. I will be adding 5% Carapils to the grain bill to hopefully give it a somewhat better head (also I really must remember to add the Irish moss to hopefully help with clarity). Ah well live and learn, and it’s still very drinkable despite its issues.

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For comparison how it should actually look I have a long way to go.

Looks like a slush beer

 

[obscure]

Looks like a slush beer

To be fair the second glass I pulled was a lot clearer so I think some sediment had settled at the base of the dip tube and once that was gone (into the first glass no doubt) it was looking a fair bit better still a tad hazy but certainly an improvement.

 

[SMP Brewery]

Ah well live and learn, and it’s still very drinkable despite its issues.

I’d never tasted, never mind brewed a Kolsh before. What I did manage to do was leave it lagering for nearly 2 months. It was a simple grain bill as well so perhaps you’re trying it too soon.

 

[obscure]

I’d never tasted, never mind brewed a Kolsh before. What I did manage to do was leave it lagering for nearly 2 months. It was a simple grain bill as well so perhaps you’re trying it too soon.

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You could well be right Kölsch is in theory a really simple beer, with a simple grain bill, light hop additions etc. which of course means no where to hide any flaws, but time does seem to solve an awful lot of flaws (I.e. my larger I brewed last year improved immensely after six months in the bottle).

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Today is the first day I’ve not been in the pub since..err..

Anyway, I had a few jobs to get done and I’m preparing my first brew day of the year for tomorrow. My wife brought me a few beers while taking the old lady shopping so I’m going to try these three she got from Hone Bargains I think. The brown ale is okay, mostly dark caramel and toffee malt.

 

[RoboBrewBot5000]

A Czech Amber Lager...which turned out to be more of a Czech Dark Lager.

 

[Alastair70]

A Czech Amber Lager...which turned out to be more of a Czech Dark Lager.

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I tried to do a Czech Amber once and it came out as a pale. I’ve got better with Brewfather since then

 

[Alastair70]

Some Malbec while I cook dinner. Punching well above its £18 weight.

 

[Druss]

This...abomination...

Absolutely foul, tastes like somebody brewed a perfectly good stout then melted a tin of treacle and a bag of Haribo into it and fused it all together with the power of hate.

 

[Clint]

Just get it down ya neck.

 

[micklupulo]

Although retired Friday night seems right for the pub so here in the Lych Gates Wolverhampton with an Oakham Paradox and it's aptly named as it's a paltry 3.8% ABV but a hoppy nectar nevertheless!

 

[Clint]

I'll be on corporate slop in the nuthouse. If last night happens again I'm coming home.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

This...abomination...

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Absolutely foul, tastes like somebody brewed a perfectly good stout then melted a tin of treacle and a bag of Haribo into it and fused it all together with the power of hate.

That’s the secret recipe

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I'll be on corporate slop in the nuthouse. If last night happens again I'm coming home.

You tell ‘em tiger.

 

[obscure]

My Kölsch, i upped the carbonation a tad and it’s made a difference still a tad hazy and will still be adding some caramalt to it, but overall very pleased with how this turned out it’s got that nice easy drinking nature that I feel a Kölsch should have. I will no doubt be playing around with the recipient maybe up the bitterness change the hop type and similar but that’s part of the joy of brewing your own beer.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

After a brew day and providing a taxi service to three generations, a little “me” time is overdue. This is the third of the beers I was tasting yesterday. The brown ale was OK and the golden ale was actually quite nice but I didn’t get to try the third beer because I’d moved on to wine and whisky. Here’s the bitter and again it isn’t bad. At 3.8% it’s almost a low alcohol beer too

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Dry Feb! Sterling effort sir!

After a brew day and providing a taxi service to three generations, a little “me” time is overdue. This is the third of the beers I was tasting yesterday. The brown ale was OK and the golden ale was actually quite nice but I didn’t get to try the third beer because I’d moved on to wine and whisky. Here’s the bitter and again it isn’t bad. At 3.8% it’s almost a low alcohol beer too

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[stubrewworx]

Today is the first day I’ve not been in the pub since..err..

Anyway, I had a few jobs to get done and I’m preparing my first brew day of the year for tomorrow. My wife brought me a few beers while taking the old lady shopping so I’m going to try these three she got from Hone Bargains I think. The brown ale is okay, mostly dark caramel and toffee malt.

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Not seen these in the wild, but like the labels

 

[stubrewworx]

Golden Hour - Endeavour

4 weeks in the bottle. Still under carbed. Used 3 carb drops as opposed to the usual 2. Notts yeast and bottled after 1 week.

ATM meh.