The Bar Towel

matt7215 wrote:homebrewed unblended lambic

now having a homebrewed kriek

licorice stout.

home smoked porter...

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.

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??

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.