The QuadraphonicQuad Craft Beer/Microbrew thread

[The56Kid]

Sharing with Mrs D, after kegging our prickly pear gose (which looks to be coming out very well) I thought we'd try this one - Area Two Experimental Brewing (Stratford, CT) "Synopsis - Prickly Pear" sour (6.4% abv). It's a decent sour but I'm not getting the taste of the fruit much, in fact we both wondered if I had opened the can of the Black Currant version as we thought it tasted more like that???

Awesome that Mrs. D likes her brew as much as you do!

 

[user 1679]

Awesome that Mrs. D likes her brew as much as you do!

She is actually the home-brewer....I'm the assistant (basically that means I haul the gear in and out, and do all the clean up)...her name is on the competition medals (2 so far).

 

[ar surround]

Oktoberfest 2019 is almost officially here. I'm sure that you beer aficionados are already into it. My ability to drink beer in that quantity ended a long time ago. But I was able to make the event in Munich in 1979. I've never seen anything like it...that 1 litre mass, the huge tents, the animated Lowenbrau Lion, the beer maids carrying a bunch of mugs at one time, the group singing, and...the mother of all hangovers.

Enjoy folks!

 

[user 1679]

A sour kind of day so far....out for lunch at Steel Bender Brewyard, had a small glass of "Kettle Run:A Solo-hop Sour" (5.75% abv, 20 ibu). No fruit in this one, just a light dose of Wakatu hops (New Zealand)

Company here for dinner, sharing a crowler of Woods Boss Brewing (Denver) "Fruity Flash" sour (5.3% abv, 23 ibu). Mango, pineapple etc...very good sour from to excellent brewery.

And now, a can of Ex Novo Brewing "Hello My Name Is Indigo Montoya" lemon and indigo sour (5.4% abv, 46 ibu).

 

[user 1679]

Prepping, eating, cleaning up after dinner....a Boxing Bear mini-fest!

Boxing Bear 2019 OktoBearfest marzenbier (5.3% abv, 25 ibu)...decent, but I think I prefer La Cumbre's this year.

And then a can of the 2019 NM IPA champ Boxing Bear "Bear Knuckle" IPA (7.7% abv, 80 ibu)...dang this is a good one, very deserving of its first place award!

And finally a can of the Boxing Bear Albu-murky DDH Mosaic NEIPA (6.5% abv, ibu n/a)

 

[Strilo]

Portland has an Oktoberfest celebration at Oaks Park this weekend. I am going on Friday, should be a good time.

 

[JediJoker]

Portland has an Oktoberfest celebration at Oaks Park this weekend. I am going on Friday, should be a good time.

There are a lot of Oktoberfest events around Portland over the next couple of weekends. I hadn't heard about the one at Oaks.

 

[Strilo]

The one at Oaks is the closest to the real thing cuz it has the German beer AND the carnival rides nearby.

 

[user 1679]

The latest home-brew, a gose with prickly pear added - the first pour from the tap after giving it 5 days to carbonate.

 

[GOS]

The latest home-brew, a gose with prickly pear added - the first pour from the tap after giving it 5 days to carbonate.

Wow!!!!! I’m impressed!



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[user 1679]

Wow!!!!! I’m impressed!

it’s a brew she has done before and always comes out great - a gold medal at the local home brew competition!

 

[user 1679]

Prepping my dinner, a few lighter hops - Uinta "Clear Daze" IPA (6.0% abv, 40 ibu)...nothing special, good filler for a mix pack as I did.

A collaboration brew - La Cumbre (Abq) and Beechwood Brewing (Long Beach, CA) with "Endless Horizon" tropical stout (7.5% abv, 35 ibu). Not sure where the tropical comes in but it is a sweet stout but a good one too.

 

[JediJoker]

The latest home-brew, a gose with prickly pear added - the first pour from the tap after giving it 5 days to carbonate.

Man, I'd love to taste that. I loved Sierra Nevada's original Otra Vez gose recipe with prickly pear.

 

[user 1679]

Man, I'd love to taste that. I loved Sierra Nevada's original Otra Vez gose recipe with prickly pear.

I really like that one from Sierra Nevada, it's very different from ours, less fruit and more salty gose - hey, idea - I ought to get a can and mix with ours....might be the ultimate PP gose!

 

[user 1679]

Sharing a growler with the usual Sunday dinner family....Ex Novo "IBU - Intense Berry Units" sour (4.3% abv). Lovely color, very good and tart.

 

[user 1679]

Staple time for me - La Cumbre "Project Dank - Autumn Edition v2019" (7.5% abv, ibu = loads)

 

[user 1679]

Small growler I picked up day, a refill of Brew Lab 101 "Wicked Pissa" NEIPA (6.5% abv, 55 ibu). Not a hop bomb or a juice bomb, just a pretty well balanced hazy IPA from one of the new kids in town - owner/brewer is one of Mrs D's brew-club members that decided to turn his passion/hobby into a business...he's off to a pretty good start too, quality stuff and he's getting good traffic.

 

[JediJoker]

Small growler I picked up day, a refill of Brew Lab 101 "Wicked Pissa" NEIPA (6.5% abv, 55 ibu). Not a hop bomb or a juice bomb, just a pretty well balanced hazy IPA from one of the new kids in town - owner/brewer is one of Mrs D's brew-club members that decided to turn his passion/hobby into a business...he's off to a pretty good start too, quality stuff and he's getting good traffic.

Heads up: all your posts show broken images on Tapatalk. If you toss out the alt text, they work:

 

[user 1679]

Heads up: all your posts show broken images on Tapatalk. If you toss out the alt text, they work:

Tapatalk bug then - they ought to fix that!

 

[Strilo]

I see your pictures and I am like "ew Rogue again?" Then I realize it's just the glass.