What are you drinking ?

[jt]

Ok, so What Are You Brewing was a hotty, as topics go.

Now I'm 15 pints into a keg I only filled on Tuesday and wondering if anyone else has a favourite at the moment ?

It's my second brown with US-Oh05 and it's better than the forst, maybe Ikept the temps down a bit during the scorcher we had in januray

[jt]

No, nothing worty or green - I must be immune to the lower OG !

 

Do you have yeast left to give it a whirl again ?

[Chris Banks]

Sitting in the sun this arvo a few quick tasters with Jt (and my mate Glen who I have been trying to influence to drink tasty/real beer for some time with the odd success)

Jt's 727 pale yum - nice to have some beers with real hop drive in them back - after the north welly 1469 craze!

My HobGoblinish clone with 1469 of course which I quite like normally but after jt's pale it seemed somewhat subdued.

Great way to get a little break from my trench digging in the rock!

[jt]

And I thought I was doing a brewday tour of North Welly.

Matthew had started early and finished by the time I got there and Chris decided on had labour instead of brewing

 

I took home a bottle of last years North Welly Golden Ale. Reminded me how good the GA's by Chris & Matthew were with the 10% Carapils - or more how sticky mine was with the 10% crystal

[jt]

somewhat subdued

 

A totally unfair comparison as they're totally different types of beers - trad ale vs Happy NZ Daft

 

I'm having a bottle of your Gobby now and it's got a similar toffee note that I picked in Matthew's Ringbinder that I haven't had in mine - shame

Absolutely drinkable and worth brewing again !

[Chris Banks]

Interesting I wonder what brings out the toffee note then - any thoughts?

[Michael]

So tonight I tried a brew called "Ten Fiddy", and a Whitbeer called, "Namaste"

 

The Ten Fiddy was generally outstanding. It is an Russian Imperial Stout, and it has nice chocolate notes followed by a touch of licorice.  Whilst this was on tap, it had just a touch of oxidation, but I was still happy.

 

I also tried a neer from Dogfish head called "Namaste". This is a Whitbeer, and it has an interesting combination of the usual Whitbeer coriander sort of flavour, and a bit of lemon grass. I am generally not a fan of this style, but found it very refreshing and interesting.

 

Tomorrow, I will try Mikkeller. Having a craft brew pub 1/2 of a block away is not good for me . :/

 

[Michael]

MIkkeller Imperial Pale Ale: Wow! This is a lovely IPA. Between last night Oskar ten fidy, and this beer I will never be the same! (Ten Fidy for an awesome imperial russian stout, and this as an Imperial IPA.)

 

What I would really like to find is an awesome beer that is less than 5%. Do these exist apart from homebrewer beers?

[Dave W]

Yeah it's called the range from 8wired! ;-)

[Stu McKinlay]

Try this for a start.... 

http://kmweaver.hoppress.com/2010/11/10/ratebeer-coms-top-50-americ...

[Michael]

Thanks gents.

 

There are great Imperial beers out there. I may be wrong, but I think great sessionable beers are †he way of the future. Don't get me wrong, I like a beautiful, flavourful, big beers like everyone else, but there is something to be said for having a very tasty beer that one does not get to pissed after a night of drinking.

 

This real bear list is a good list to look at.

[Andrew]

If all breweries made were 7% , hopped to holy hell brews they would go out of business pretty quickly. Session beers pay the bills, Imperial beers pave the way.

[Raffe]

Sessionable beers are the way of the past, present and future. A good example is the UK, where the vast majority of the cask ale market is built on 3.5% - 5% sessionable bitters.