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Opihr spiced gin and rose lemonade = boozy turkish delight!

Very tasty indeed

 

devils back bone ipa

 

Turbo yeast droppings... fresh out of rack #2...

...I've had harsher* but not many - going to lay down four gallons with various 'erbs & spices, either by the gallon or by the litre - just depending...

*do not, I repeat not purchase or drink (even by accident) a blended whisky going under the name of Claymore.

 

think I have found the best

1part jack Daniels.
3 parts high quality coconut water.


lots of parts....

 

King Goblin & Bulleit bourbon. Not together if course mixing a whisky is sacrilege in my eyes

 

Worthy of a thread bump: A Gummi Roy

3 oz JW Blue and 8 mixed gummy bears (pomegranate, peach, mango and strawberry to be precise).

 

Turbo yeast infused with cinnamon. Much nicer, dried chilly works too, as does half a lemon (per bottle) though you'll never get them out again and it's by-by bottle, a nice big sprig of fresh mint, and (my GF's favourite) 3Tbsp co-co powder.

I'm down to my last seven 750ml bottles

Time for the next batch of something...

 

Now that I've finished with the new 'pooter for the night, I've got a new Brewdog beer in the fridge which I'm about to crack open and try for the first time.

Looks/sounds interesting.

 

Looks like your a big fan after that 40%(??) stuff

 

This is 9.2% Tesco fodder.

(Just opened it. Not a fan. I don't think double IPA's are for me. Give me Punk or Elvis Juice any day.)

 

I was a bit unclear, I'm talking about this bottle you had:
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showpost.php?p=4100552&postcount=13695

It seems you became a brewdog fan after drinking it. You even changed your avatar to brewdog afterwards.

 

Ah, no. I discovered Brewdog relatively recently but long before I was given that bottle. I had my first Brewdog beer about 18 months to 2 years ago. It was Punk IPA and my first truly hop-forward ale. I hated my first but loved my second.

Since then I've rarely drunk anything other than hoppy American (as in hops) pale ales. I even learned how to make them from grain and turned out a few very successful brews (some would say too successful, hence my brewing hiatus ) .

 

I've had one or two bewdogs in my time, they were all quite hoppy. A lot of the craft brewers go for those IPA styles. I've been told by a hobby brewer that they are easier to make than something like a larger.

 

Well, kinda...

All ales are easier to make than lager. Lager yeast target fermentation temps are a lot lower than ale yeast. You need a fridge for the fermentation vessel and it involves a temp ramp-up at a specific stage because chemistry. It also needs to mature (or "lager" in brewing terms) for longer post-fermentation than ale before it's ready to drink. Over all, home brewing proper lager (not "lager" you can make from kits which actually use ale yeast) is a pain in the arse.

Ale on other other hand is much simpler. The yeast ferments at room-ish temps and in two weeks is ready for bottling, and two weeks after that you can drink it, especially if it's a pale ale (darker malt flavours take longer to mature).

 

Just bought a 12 pack of beer with every beer being a collaboration between Parallel 49 and another brewery; no two beer styles the same. This is going to be fun

Starting with Parallel 49 in collaboration with Axe and Barrel "Paranoid" (oaked wild imperial pilsner) @ 8.5% abv.

 

Theakstons Old Peculier.


Hnnnnng.

 

Some Highland Park 18 followed by some Lagavulin Feis Ile 2016. It's a good friday.

 

Elvis Juice.

 

Malbec

 

Vino? On a Wednesday?

/MIL