The Beer Nerd - what are you drinking / brewing thread

It was pretty good. I feel like El Dorado CAN be my favorite hop, but it seems like it's flavor can be totally different depending on how or how much is used. El Dorado showers from Noble, back in the day, was incredible with the rainbow sherbet flavors it pulled out. Rarely get those from most of them i try now. This one gets close.

 

I get a weird lucky charms flavor. Although Stone did an El Dorado ipa a few years ago I couldn’t get enough of.

 

Straight grapefruit

 

Diggin’ the retro label.

 

Yeah, I could see that, but I dig it. I had that other one from BW the other week that was a total fruity pebbles taste and i liked that too. Just really interesting flavors to be able to pull out of hops...

 

The year I was born.
I grabbed a sixer thinking it was something new and then as I'm standing there looking at it reading it, just original stuff in old packaging that's pretty cool!

 

Need to kick the keg of this Winter Lager to free up a tap for the Dunkelweizen I brewed last Friday. Down to the last few pints...



And I got my yeast starter going for my @relkins0413 English Pale Ale/ESB I'll be brewing Thursday evening...

 

I really need to focus on the yeast a bit more for mine. I have a stirplate and everything, I always plan last minute to brew and never have time for a starter. The harvested slurry i used for my pale kicked off quick and worked real cleanly.

 

If you don't have time to plan your starters, you can brew and cool your wort, then draw off a quart or so of the wort for a starter. Run it 12 hours on the stir plate and pitch the whole 9 yards. If OG is too high you can dilute with water as needed to keep the gravity around 1.040. It's pretty common for me to brew in the evening and pitch the next morning.

 

Uh oh turning 40 this year

I was born in ‘82 so I still have a couple years.

I’ve been buying most of my beer in cans but I think SN pale ale is a beer better from a bottle. Or maybe this batch is just more fresh than I’m used to. It’s good though!

 

You've just got all the brew hacks

 

I'll try it!
And yup...over the hill! Going to need one dem hearing cone jiggers do's

 

Thought I'd share this.
Got a good laugh!

 

Starting my first home brew this evening. Basic wheat ale kit from True Brew. I'll let you all know how it goes! Just finished boiling and it's fermenting now.

I'm going to start a cider next weekend also. I have 4 glass gallon jugs of apple juice that I'm going to take a little out of, throw some yeast and maybe a little maple syrup or brown sugar and see what happens. Something I've been wanting to do for a while, had the hardware for a couple years, quarantine has finally given me some time to tackle it.

 

I am enjoying one of those right now. Almost 2 months in the bottle and it’s great. Almost brilliantly clear and a great caramel flavor with just enough hop bitterness to keep you coming back. This is on my short list to brew again.

 

What great color and clarity. You look to have better carbonation than the ESBs that I've had.

 

It might be a bit high for style. I use Domino dots in each bottle instead of batch priming in a bucket to reduce oxidation as much as is possible with bottling. That comes out to around 2.2 volumes of carb I believe? I think most British pale ales such as this are below 2 volumes.

 

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