The QuadraphonicQuad Craft Beer/Microbrew thread

[user 1679]

A single bottle I picked up to try, as I do with its release each year....Sierra Nevada "Northern Hemisphere Wet Hop IPA v2018" (6.7% abv, 67 ibu). Not an outstanding beer, but a decent solid one for the price. This years has a more malty taste to me.

 

[user 1679]

Bambi burgers for dinner, and for me a glass from our keg of Boxing Bear coffee chocolate milk stout (6.3% abv, 20 ibu). Delicious.

 

[user 1679]

After dinner it's back into the hop-zone and a can of local La Cumbre (2 time ntl champ) "Project Dank" - this is the winter edition for 2018....7.5% abv and 100+ ibu...big and bold, piney dankness....hophead delight.

 

[user 1679]

Last for the evening - another limited release from local La Cumbre - "Big Door Prize" is a single hop dbl dry-hopped dbl IPA (say that real fast a few times!) coming in at 8.0% abv, ibu n/a...juicier and hazier than last year's release...great brew.

 

[Perp]

I’ve been a good boy. I’ve only drank twice since last August. A total of 5 beers. That’s about to change, come next weekend. I have two weeks off for the holiday break. 22 bottles of beer on the wall.....22 bottles of beeeeeer.

 

[Perp]

https://darko.audio/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/*******-hell.jpg

I found this one on Darko.

A Pilsner named after the Austrian village ******* but brewed in Germany. Hell is the German word for bright but in this context, it means light or pale. Also a sharp reminder of how affordable beer is in this part of the world – €13.20 for 12 x 33cl bottles. Shame you’ll have to be in Germany to take delivery. ******* hell, indeed.

 

[beerking]

I brewed 2 cans of this home brew together, last May.
I use the 2 can method instead of adding sugar and or spray dried malt extract.
As I have found this gives more body, colour, head and a better taste.
Especially when I can find them on offer.
I ferment for two weeks
Then I add two small infusers, filled with Goldings hop pellets, to the brew for another week.
Test the strength, taste test and bottle. (It was 5.2%)
Usually get around 38 500ml bottles.

I am now consuming them... Lip smacking bitter this is ..imho.
How I leave them for 6 months to mature, beats me, I just know the wait is usually worth it....fingers crossed.

 

[Green]

I do not **** around on the rare occasions I drink alcohol. Only 379 bottles made.

 

[user 1679]

Normally it'd be time to share a sour with the Mrs but she's still a bit under the weather....so I'm sharing with her mom instead....a "Blackberry Briar" (5.1% abv, 13 ibu) from local La Cumbre.

 

[erebus]

This looks interesting. It's a de-alcoholized cannabis beer: Ceria Brewing Co. Contains 5mg of THC in each 10oz. bottle. I learned about it from the local news and it's set to hit shelves sometime this month.

 

[Green]

So basically near beer with thc instead of alcohol. I do not know of anyone who wants their weed tasting like alcohol. Hard pass, time spent drinking beer is better spent smoking weed.

 

[Strilo]

I like the Cascade sours but they're pretty expensive around here - minimum $20 a bottle, so it's a special treat when we get one. Last time I was up in Oregon we stopped at a few places - Breakside was pretty good, and Klamath Basin (down in K Falls) wasn't too shabby either. I got 2 or 3 bombers from Pelican Brewing that were very good too....too many good breweries and not enough time!

I mean Cascade bottles are $20-30 in Portland, so don't feel bad. I go to the barrel house or to their Lodge and then the beers are reasonably priced. Also, Breakside and Pelican are both good!

 

[user 1679]

I mean Cascade bottles are $20-30 in Portland, so don't feel bad. I go to the barrel house or to their Lodge and then the beers are reasonably priced. Also, Breakside and Pelican are both good!

Have you tried Ex Nova there? I wasn't in that part of town last time up there but their owner is from this area and has construction underway for a brewery here - looking forward to trying it when it's all up and running as it's not far from where my house is.

 

[Strilo]

I think you mean Ex Novo. And yes. According to Untappd, I've had nine of their beers.

 

[user 1679]

I think you mean Ex Novo. And yes. According to Untappd, I've had nine of their beers.

Of course....dang auto-correct! Any lasting impressions/rating?

Now, for this evening, a share with the Mrs to start....Trader Joe's/Unibroue "Audacity" Abbey-style blonde. Not bad at all, but of course had better, but for the price point it's worthwhile having once in a while.

Now, another local La Cumbre "Project Dank Winter Edition" IPA (7.5% abv, 100+ ibu). Just great...glad I bought a dozen and even gladder my step-daughter brought me another dozen!

 

[user 1679]

Shared a 12oz bottle (small taster glass for me) of Saint Arnold's "Ale Wagger" brown ale (5.3% abv, 24 ibu). I usually find their beer to be pretty decent but this is not one of their better ones....kinda lifeless and bland.

Now, from a 32oz growler I had filled today - Marble Brewery's take on the Sierra Nevada "Resilience" IPA (7.3% abv, ibu n/a). Nice touch of citrus on the front, loads of pine dankness on the finish. For those not familiar with this idea - proceeds from this brew go to the "Camp Fire Relief Fund" to help rebuild from the recent wildfires in that part of California. Sierra Nevada created the recipe and sell the beer, but they also give the recipe to breweries that want to participate in the relief effort - over 1400 so far. Drink beer to help people out - I like it!

 

[beerking]

And to further celebrate Manchester Uniteds fine win, some more home brew which is John Bull's IPA.
Again I used the two can method, the brew has been maturing in bottles in the garage since last March (well what's left has)
A strength of 5.8%

 

[user 1679]

Opened a single can I picked up to try, Ska Brewing (Durango, CO) "Moral Panic" brut IPA (5.75% abv, ibu n/a). More citrus than pine, very effervescent - I think I'd like this better on a warm summer afternoon.

 

[user 1679]

A new limited canned release from multiple IPA champs Bosque Brewing - Two Shades of Haze Dbl IPA (8.5% abv, 50 ibu) - not an over the top hop-bomb, juicy citrus style. Maybe not their best IPA ever but still way above the average, quite enjoyable.

 

[karlkastner]

I may be slightly biased. This is my favorite beer.(I've done considerable research) If anyone is in Tampa in early November, I throw a big Erdinger party. Look me up!

German wheat beer. Not spicy like all the other wheats. American craft brewers can't approximate it. My elixir of life. Hasn't failed me yet.