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Robert68 said:
I just had a sample taste of a blonde that is almost done fermenting. Hopefully the lime I am going to add to the secondary will balance out the salt. Taco Tuesday style of beer.
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Hey Robert, welcome to the site.
I ate tacos last night (Tuesday), and will be eating more tacos tonight. Tuesday was homemade carnitas, tonight will be homemade smoked chicken. Cheers.
 
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Here is my second and final beer for the night - another bottle of my Belgian pale ale.
 
Sunfire96 said:
I've come to accept the fact that my palate is out of whack from the rest of my fellow beer aficionados :D but I like to check in from time to time just in case something has changed
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Good planning. I've grown tired of IPAs, but when I get a hankering for one, I buy one.
 
Ok, Brew Day Part Deaux

Decided to brew a Spotted Cow clone and figured I’d give this a try.

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Founders Dirty Bastard. 8.5% ABV, IBU 50. Thought it would be bitter, but very pleased with the malt flavor. Not bitter at all. Quite yummy. I should probably eat before I get another, though. This stuff feels GOOD going down.
 
Not cool at all. A tiny spider decided to do a high dive into the kettle during hot break, just before I dropped the bittering hops. (groan). Well, I guess I'll find out what kinda flavor that adds. Just hope I don't get him drifting around in a bottle somewhere along the line. That would be most unimpressive.
 
Ward Chillington said:
Peter Parker's Porter, 8% abv. What's left of him is headed to be buried in the yeast cake...let us know if you develop any Super Powers!
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Well, if those powers include regeneration of disks at L3-L5 and C4 - C7, I don't think I'll complain. Not even a little. After humping two full fermenters down a flight of 14 steps as well as all the trips up and down the same steps to get the gear out and then put it back up, I'm beat and my back is killing me. Not so much the weight, but being in that half bent position while watching the boil or stirring in ingredients is what kills me. My left leg starts trying to tie itself in knots. But I did get to try a couple new (purchased) beers in the process. But, everything is cleaned up and put away except this laptop. I bring it out on the deck where I brew so I can actually read the brew steps and keep things in check. But even with it, I still nearly forgot the pound of corn sugar that goes into the Cow, same one that had the suicidal spider. I noticed it when I was putting the flavor hops in. DOH!

Long day. Two brew days in one. One biggun, and one littlun, albeit, both 22 quart batches. Leffe Abbey Blonde should come out around 7.5 - 8.0 ABV, and the Spotted Cow around 4.5 - 5.0 ABV. One advantage to extract batches is a lot less boil time. Steeping only takes around 15 minutes or so for most. The Leffe Abbey had a 45 minute boil and the Spotted Cow had only 40 minutes. All grain batches of those would have taken a LOT longer with 1 hour mash. I'm still a self proclaimed rookie at this, so I don't mind doing extract batches until I find something I can actually taste the difference in an all grain recipe for the same target.

Gonna have a VERY busy bottling weekend in about 2 weeks. I intended to shift both these batches around the next batch of wine we have to bottle, but strangely enough, somehow I managed to wind up with two batches of beer and a batch of wine to bottle on the same weekend. I really gotta get better at my scheduling.
 
RoadRoach said:
Ok, Brew Day Part Deaux

Decided to brew a Spotted Cow clone and figured I’d give this a try.

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Founders Dirty Bastard. 8.5% ABV, IBU 50. Thought it would be bitter, but very pleased with the malt flavor. Not bitter at all. Quite yummy. I should probably eat before I get another, though. This stuff feels GOOD going down.
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That’s a pretty good one. Hit ya but nice and malty
 
RoadRoach said:
Ok, Brew Day Part Deaux

Decided to brew a Spotted Cow clone and figured I’d give this a try.

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Founders Dirty Bastard. 8.5% ABV, IBU 50. Thought it would be bitter, but very pleased with the malt flavor. Not bitter at all. Quite yummy. I should probably eat before I get another, though. This stuff feels GOOD going down.
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Haven't had a Dirty Bastard for a few years, great beer, kinda heavy on the ABV though.
I don't think Founders makes anything that isn't top shelf!
 
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RoadRoach said:
I bring it out on the deck where I brew so I can actually read the brew steps and keep things in check. But even with it, I still nearly forgot the pound of corn sugar that goes into the Cow, same one that had the suicidal spider
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God love a checklist.....especially when you are adding or changing steps to "the regular" process! Try thinking of those steps as exercise...hope the back improves!
 
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