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

[Barbara Joppa]

Since I live in Waitakere (dry - all beer controlled by the Trust and according to them, beer = bland piss) I rarely have the opportunity to buy craft beer at a store. But recently went by New World at Victoria Market in Auckland to find a lovely, diverse beer selection. It was very hard to not go completely crazy but did pick up and try the following:
3 Boys IPA - went down very well with the curry
Bath Ales Wild Hare (organic pale ale) - nice bitterness but not very interesting overall.
Harrington's Big John Special Reserve - smokey, smooth, dark and very yum!
Renaissance Chocolate oatmeal stout - very very chocolate. It was like eating a very nice, high quality dark chocolate bar. I throughly enjoyed this.... but is it beer? or dessert?

[JoKing]

How's your Dubbel coming along, Barbs?

[Barbara Joppa]

Transferred to the secondary on Tuesday. Only managed to taste the dregs which were kinda sour.....
But, as always, I still have high hopes

[Greig McGill]

What's this "Trust" thing? Sounds positively Orwellian.

[Martin Bridges]

I dunno - would you want Westies to have unfettered access to booze??

Only joking Barb!

[Barbara Joppa]

Hmmm, well.... if the Westies had more access to proper beer, maybe they wouldn't have such poor taste is everything.

Just sayin!

@ Greig - Waitakere Trust controls the booze in this region of Auckland. Money goes to build the stadium, playground equipment, and buys all residents smoke detectors or first aid kits. I appreciate the good it does. I just wish they were more flexible in what they buy. I could see this as a task for SOBA???

[Greig McGill]

And people wonder why I'm a libertarian...

[Ally Mcg]

DB Export Beer - 50th Anniversary limited release, in a box set with a limited edition bottle opener too, and all for under $10. Two quart bottles too!

Shame the beer isn't as good as the packaging but then I didn't really expect it to be. Supreme Award Winner at the Brewers Expo in London 1968 nonetheless. I really need to build my time machine...

[Chris Banks]

Just tryed a db export beer myself did you find it sweet?
I checked the sg it was 1006 to be honest I was expecting more than that from the sweet taste.
Apart from that I found it had a real cidery smell/taste - maybe the special release was sponsored by chelsea!

[Richard Jack]

I'm drinking an Irish red, it's the first beer I've made that the berwing process went completely smooth (without distasters / mistakes and so on), the first brew where I actually understood what I was doing (well, mostly) instead of blindly following instructions, and also the first using gelatin finings. Overall, I'm pretty happy it :)

[Stu McKinlay]

Nice one bro! I remember the feeling... And I still get the buzz on getting through a brew day without fuck ups!

[Stu McKinlay]

Bridge Road B2 Bomber

I've had 4 750ml bottles of this in the last week and can say that it is one of the best black beers I've had. They call it a Belgian Black IPA but it is just superb... It'd be gold medal worthy as a Foreign Extra Stout but that simple statement is not doing the beer justice. It has everything.