My Tuesday Melbourne cup sampler. Oh my! This beer is good sooo Morrish this keg ain't gunna last much longer and maybe my marriage it tastes that good! Look at the clarity on that now if I served this to you at the bar you wouldn't know it's a homebrew! Loving it! The power even went,off today in my area I though oh beers gunna be upset little too much carbonation but lovely drop .

 

That's a good looking beer buddy!

 

Your welcome to come try any time might be a big trip though!

 

Today my mid week tipple started with my L1 lager and now vanilla cream ale WOW! Is all I can say this is creaping into the best ever brewed catagory. I know I bombard this thread with my beers but youse have to taste this! vodka is fading to background now and all is a full mouthfeel of sweet vanilla crisp rounded taste clinging mouthful of morishness. If youse are stuck on a recipe and need to get a lawn mower beer on tap this ones ya brew I see why it's in the top 5!

 

drank some IPAs, and a guiness antewpen because they threw in a custom engraved glass at the bar. SCORE.

Finished up with a Munich SMaSH homebrew. Someone define this style of beer for me. It's 100% munich malt, 100% Hallertau Blanc hops @ 30 IBUs ... and German Ale Wyeast. 8.4 SRM and finished out at exactly 5% ABV... is it an altbier?

 

Finishing off a keg of my first attempt at a blonde ale for my friends who don't like the richer stuff. It actually came out tastier than I expected. I got some good clarity too.

 

Finished off the Bustin Out Stout. Will brew that again for a house stout.
Just taste tested our new Robust porter and Belgian Dubbel.
Porter is a tweeked recipe that was good before. Can already taste the chocolate/caramel/roast goodness.
Dubbel is still yeasty but the balance of caramel/fruity spicy is there.

 

Hope you aren't driving

 

only to the bar.

having another liter of my Munich SMaSH tonight. it's growing on me, I think it could have aged another week in the secondary perhaps. Or fermented slightly colder. good beer though, sits nice on these cloudy gloomy days.

edit: also been drinking Abita's Christmas ale this week, and got the Sam Adams winter pack which includes Boston Lager, Old Feziwig, Ginger Beer, Chocolate Bock, and Winter Lager.... The chocolate bock was the clear winner in that box.

 

Cracked open a bottle of my own " Little Creatures Pale " tonight and have to say i'm pretty happy with it , stats wise it fits almost dead centre of the APA style ( 18B) but is still a little hazy with a slight grassy after taste ....not a comp candidate but a bloody tasty beer for the warmer weather heading my way
First time i've used 5 different hops in a single brew
Cascade , Citra(Dry hopped ) and Chinook with some Amarillo mostly late ... smells and tastes great !

 

What sort of base did you blend these hops with there Mark? Some GP and Crystal?

 

No GP in that one

4 kg JWM trad. ale
1.1 kg munich I (Weyermann)
.3 kg JWM wheat
.3 kg Carapils / carafoam ( Weyermann )
nothing unusual in the grain bill , could get same result with about any generic 2 row pale

 

Make friends with your bartenders people. It'll leave you feelin' good.

Had that Enjoy By 11.25 tonight, excellent double IPA, can't expect anything less from Stone at this point... Had Unibroue A Tout Le Monde, an excellent session. And in the midst of Ayinger's Oktoberfest, we did shots of Ghost Tequila. yes that's tequila with ghost pepper.

OH! Also, this guy ordered a Blanton's Bourbon tonight, and he got the last shot in the bottle. I asked for the bottle, and could not stop sniffing it, the smoooothest smelling bourbon. Damn, Gotta get my hands on that so I can throw some oak in for infusion, and hopefully use for an imperial stout or imperial brown.

 

Drinking my stikks vanilla cream ale vanilla is still bursting forth On the nose with a slight lingering sweetness a lovely brew not a guzzler but a nice one or two brew

 

3 beers. One for me, one for my wife, and one for my girlfriend. In case you can't read the writing, pumpkin spice porter, amber lager, and kolsch. And I just poured a fourth for another girl who showed up.

 

Vanilla cream ale yet again I tell ya what that vanilla is faiding drink it while she's young I say! What it's been four weeks ish so anyone doing vanilla brews be aware it does fade like hops .

 

I'm having nosybear's märzen. Pretty malty but enough bitterness so that its not too sweet. Really like the hazy golden color. I'm getting something fruity in there too, but not sure what.

 

Let me try one tonight - it's evolving over time.