What are you drinking right now?

Megary said:
How did you like this? I’m having one now and while I’m not a fan of Holiday Seasonal type beers, the cherries in this really add an interesting dimension. I prefer Wild Elf to Mad Elf by a mile, but this ain’t bad.
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I enjoyed it. Had a little spice to it that was nice. Great malty flavor. Didn’t taste as big as it was. I did pour my wife about a third of it and she liked it too.
 
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Needs a few more days to be fully carbed but I liked the taste enough to fill up the pint glass :)
 
Craigerrr said:
I might be going hard tonight, or I could just be having a few... hard to tell how close the last two kegs are, but they gotta be close. First pull tonight is the Cragunitas, and it is not the last...
I am kind of proud of the clarity, makes a great beer taste even better! You can see through both sides!
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That is great clarity. How is the carbonation? It looks a little low.
 
Trialben said:
Smaked a heap or these on new years.
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Local craft brewery who specialises in lagers aka "heads of noosa" top drop filtered though I guess for repeatability...
And really is filtration the devil?
But honestly I smacked way more of this stuff looks rough looks murky But it's what can I say a bit more like me:rolleyes:
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Like the weather - sometimes clear, sometimes cloudy.
 
Craigerrr said:
I might be going hard tonight, or I could just be having a few... hard to tell how close the last two kegs are, but they gotta be close. First pull tonight is the Cragunitas, and it is not the last...
I am kind of proud of the clarity, makes a great beer taste even better! You can see through both sides!
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Nice looking beer. I kicked a keg about 2 ounces into my first pour tonight. Looked all over for Celebration Ale, both here and in Reno. None to be found. Seems like it's usually available until early February. Disappointed, but found an assortment with 40th Anniversary Ale, so all is not lost.

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Herm_brews said:
Is that of your own creation, or someone else’s?
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That’s my house Stout that I decided to add a bit of vanilla to. The vanilla actually enhances the roasty, chocolatey nature of the beer and only hints at “vanilla”. Kind of strange, but I think that’s the beauty of vanilla. Makes all the other ingredients step up their game.
 
Megary said:
That’s my house Stout that I decided to add a bit of vanilla to. The vanilla actually enhances the roasty, chocolatey nature of the beer and only hints at “vanilla”. Kind of strange, but I think that’s the beauty of vanilla. Makes all the other ingredients step up their game.
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That piques my interest. Is there a recipe to be found?
 
Sunfire96 said:
Copied, thank you!
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That’s so cool, thank you!!

The big dial turn to turn is the Carafa II. If you like a lot of roast, eliminate it and give those ounces to the Roasted Barley. If you like to keep the roast to a minimum, go the other direction. The % that you see there is my preference, but everyone’s mileage definitely varies. The wheat, I have found, is responsible for a nice sustainable head. My one, absolute must have is BRY-97. I have tried Stouts with various other yeasts, but this one works best for what I was going after...dry and sessionable. If I was making an Oatmeal Stout or a Milk Stout, I would choose a different yeast.

If you ever brew this, please let me know how it comes out!
 
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