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

[JoKing]

Drinking my Belgian Pale Ale ATM (Recipe here). Bitterness is a bit high for the subtle yeasty esters, but the malt profile is outstanding. Im starting to wish that I used more Vienna - like probably the whole base would have been wicked.

She's a bit of a thirst quencher... nice malt, toasty buscuit. The yeast has an estery feel with a bit of bubblegum. Bitterness is on the high side though... might pay to leave it in the keg for a few weeks or so.

[Reviled]

The bitterness doesnt look like it would be on the high side from the recipe? Especially for you lol :oP

Im just starting to play around with Vienna, been subbing it for munich in a few beers, its alot more subtle but nice, sorta more sweet in a way? Ill be keen to try the Global stuff when I run out...


Im currently drinking my Amarillo Ordinary, only a week and a half in the keg and the nottingham still hasnt dropped out, not to mention chill haze like a biartch, but its tasty, nice subtle Amarillo character thats not quite mandarins, with toasty biscuit malt flavours all the way through! I really wish it had more body tho, 1011 is waay to thin for a beer like this IMO

[JoKing]

I'll keep that in mind mate...

You can definately use a lot more of it in a lot of beers. I'm gonna SMaSH it with some Centennial when I get my first shipment.

[Reviled]

Yum I reckon a smash with Vienna would be spot on, the Munich II was just a bit too malty and with pils and pale malt its slightly lacking, so theres got to be an in between!! Id be keen as to try it!

[denimglen]

Vienna, Northern Brewer and T58 SMaSH is supposed to be the business.

[Matthew]

What is SMaSH?

Ta.

[Nick T]

Single Malt and Single Hop - supposed to be a good way to discover the character of a malt or hop so you can then have an idea of how it might affect the outcome of a more complex recipe.

I wonder if a useful addition to the Library would be a glossary of all the TLAs, FLAs etc used on the forum - it is a bit confusing for newcomers (I certainly have taken a while to 'get' a lot of them) - eg SMaSH, HLT, MLT, IIPA, MPA, APA, etc etc etc....

[Matthew]

Cheers mate, that was easy. With ya on the glossary, it was hard enough getting my head around all the normal brewing terms. Mash this, sparge that, efficiency what?? :P Good times!

[Nick T]

especially when you finally work out that 'sparge' just means 'rinse', and 'mash' just means 'soak at a particular temperature', 'hot liquor tank' is just a hot water container, and 'pitch' means 'add' etc etc - it all sounds so mysterious and complicated when you first hear it......... (oh, and 'Tui' just means 'shite'......but this is admittedly a potentially confusing one because a lot of other terms have the same meaning - like 'Lion Red', 'Monteiths Radler', 'Speights Ale', 'DB Draught' etc)

[denimglen]

I wonder if a useful addition to the Library would be a glossary of all the TLAs, FLAs

Will get onto it tomorrow, good idea mate.

[Martin Bridges]

More a case of what am I not drinking. I was planning to go to Galbraiths tomorrow night for some Pride of Warminster IPA but because of the bus strike I have no way of getting home, unless I get a lift home at 5 o'clock with my boss. Either that or spend a small fortune on a cab.

Damn those greedy NZ Bus w***ers.

[Barry]

Armageddon. Batch II. It's wonderful.