What HOMEBREW are you drinking right now?

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:53 pm

matt7215 wrote:homebrewed unblended lambic

now having a homebrewed kriek

acromion23 · Post by **acromion23** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 4:24 pm

licorice stout.

jcc · Post by **jcc** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:48 pm

home smoked porter...

pootz · Post by **pootz** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:20 pm

matt7215 wrote:
pootz wrote:I'm just finishing some cider made last month as well.....used champagne yeast, lemon zest, brown sugar ...nice tart-dry fizzy cider....great chilled on the porch in this hot weather.
what cider did you use?

Local fresh pressed from Mennonite country. Seven varieties of apples.

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:41 pm

pootz wrote:
matt7215 wrote:
pootz wrote:I'm just finishing some cider made last month as well.....used champagne yeast, lemon zest, brown sugar ...nice tart-dry fizzy cider....great chilled on the porch in this hot weather.
what cider did you use?
Local fresh pressed from Mennonite country. Seven varieties of apples.

sounds awesome, what was the cost??

pootz · Post by **pootz** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:16 pm

matt7215 wrote:
pootz wrote:
matt7215 wrote: what cider did you use?
Local fresh pressed from Mennonite country. Seven varieties of apples.
sounds awesome, what was the cost??

$4.95 a gallon.

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:27 pm

currently having the homebrewed saison im entering in the TBW homebrew contest

markaberrant · Post by **markaberrant** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:25 pm

Imperial Chocolate Ale I brewed last November. This is the first bottle that has tasted good... damn good actually. Previous bottles have always had to much chocolate-y bitterness, but it is finally calming down. I used 2oz of cocoa power at the end of the boil, plus 2oz of cacao nibs and 3 vanilla beans soaked in vodka and added to secondary.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:45 pm

Sipping my first, real, homebrew. Based on a Chimay red clone, with a little peat-smoked malt. Sort of a Belgian Scotch ale, and at 6 years it's tasting good!

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 10:54 pm

Drinking my dopplesticke adambier... I thought it was a bit of a train wreck fresh, but after almost a year it's quite interesting. I still don't think I like the excess of Spalter hops though.

markaberrant · Post by **markaberrant** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:14 pm

Derek wrote:Drinking my dopplesticke adambier... I thought it was a bit of a train wreck fresh, but after almost a year it's quite interesting. I still don't think I like the excess of Spalter hops though.

Can't say I'm crazy about Spalter either.

elproducto · Post by **elproducto** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:42 am

Just tried a bottle of my DFH 60min. IPA clone after a week in bottle (couldn't resist). It was my first and only AG batch to date, and it was absolutely phenomenal even after only a week. Needs some more carb, but is delicious. I think it's even better than the original, I'm done with extract brewing that's for sure.

markaberrant · Post by **markaberrant** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:18 am

elproducto wrote:Just tried a bottle of my DFH 60min. IPA clone after a week in bottle (couldn't resist). It was my first and only AG batch to date, and it was absolutely phenomenal even after only a week. Needs some more carb, but is delicious. I think it's even better than the original, I'm done with extract brewing that's for sure.

Congrats! Great to hear. I am fairly active on a lot of homebrew forums, at times I tire of some of the newbie questions (that's just me being old and cynical), but I never get tired of hearing people having success!

markaberrant · Post by **markaberrant** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:24 am

I have been testing my latest session saison (1.040 OG, 4.5% abv), not quite fully carbed/conditioned yet, but tasting nice. Used 2-row, with a touch of amber and C60. 30 IBU, the flameout and dry hop additions were a 50/50 mix of crystal and willamette.

Also enjoying the hell out of my latest batch of "pils." 1.050 OG, 100% 2-row, US-05, and 30 IBU, with 1oz of mt hood at 15 and again at flameout. Dry, grainy, hoppy and bitter. Delicious and highly quaffable!

Tapsucker · Post by **Tapsucker** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 10:27 pm

My first all grain uber hoppy IPA. I think I stumbled on a Smashbomb clone.

Beginner's luck! Tasty, tasty 5 gallons of beginner's luck.