Official Supp Beer Misc #5: Bring in da Sours, Bring in da Funk

[thefleshlight]

awww yeaaaa
Citra Hose is a fukkin game-changer for sure. IMO, one of the best beers I've ever had.



Our pale is loosely based off of a clone recipe I found on HBT for that.
The first time I brewed it, we dry hopped too early (3rd week) and it was generally under-whelming like Flesh said. Thin, not much going on.
We started dry hopping on the 4th or even 5th week, and its much better. Beginner mistake I guess.

Also, we use US-04 instead of the English III or whatever. Seems to finish out around 1.010 or 1.009 (SG 1.05x).

We just tried another batch using some vienna in the recipe, and SD super yeast and it got down to 1.006. Dry hopped yesterday... we'll see how that turns out

The best local brewery here (that mosaic single hop beer I sent you awhile ago janks) uses almost all pilsner malt and 3% honey malt and they feel that 3% just adds a slight pop to their IPAs. They've not had a bad beer since doing this recipe on their single IPAs. Their DIPAs need a lot of work though.

[icetrauma]

Karbach Staycation sure is juicy. Nice grapefruit taste in a session beer.

[thedarce]

thinking of heading out to golden road, cant find any heal the bay in cans around here. guess i gotta go to the source

[janky]

The best local brewery here (that mosaic single hop beer I sent you awhile ago janks) uses almost all pilsner malt and 3% honey malt and they feel that 3% just adds a slight pop to their IPAs. They've not had a bad beer since doing this recipe on their single IPAs. Their DIPAs need a lot of work though.

Nice! Yeah, I've just been realizing there's usually a touch of honey or (im guessing) vienna in a lot of my fav IPAs, just to give a bit of sticky, sweet backbone.
Gunna start trying honey next time I brew one, but we just upgraded to an eHERMS and it's driving me batsht crazy trying to dial it in. Just been doing small pales as cheap test beers

Thanks for the heads up though, good to hear I'm not crazy and was on the right track!

Never used all pils though - I usually do pale 2-row and/or Maris Otter. Might have to look into that. I think Yellow Rose was an all pils malt bill, right?

[thefleshlight]

Nice! Yeah, I've just been realizing there's usually a touch of honey or (im guessing) vienna in a lot of my fav IPAs, just to give a bit of sticky, sweet backbone.
Gunna start trying honey next time I brew one, but we just upgraded to an eHERMS and it's driving me batsht crazy trying to dial it in. Just been doing small pales as cheap test beers

Thanks for the heads up though, good to hear I'm not crazy and was on the right track!

Never used all pils though - I usually do pale 2-row and/or Maris Otter. Might have to look into that. I think Yellow Rose was an all pils malt bill, right?

2 row tastes like ass... Very corn-flakey in nature to me. Idk wtf is in YR but La Cumbre solely uses pilsner in their IPAs.

[jamm!n]

2 row tastes like ass...

no wonder you hate 99% of the beers you try haha. srsly tho, thats a ridiculous statement

[thefleshlight]

no wonder you hate 99% of the beers you try haha. srsly tho, thats a ridiculous statement

Well IDK what you do for yours, maybe your hop utilization is better, but I can pick out that two row flavor in a bit of IPAs and APAs recently.

[blinkers88]

Well IDK what you do for yours, maybe your hop utilization is better, but I can pick out that two row flavor in a bit of IPAs and APAs recently.

dat palate tho

[thefleshlight]

dat palate tho

I might just be tuned to it. One brewery used to use a lot of two row in their IPAs. My friend worked there and would take two row for his homebrew and I would hate on it, asking wtf malt he uses. He said two row. I then asked if that brewery used all two row, he said pretty much.

#smokinggun

[janky]

I've definitely noticed a cereal, cheerios, grainy, corn flake taste with 2 row ... but it's usually when I'm sampling the beers young.
That's another reason I've been giving them an extra week in primary/secondary to mature before dry hopping. That flavor seems to go away with a little extra time.

[icetrauma]

Yo Speed! How did you fair during last nights monsoon?

[thefleshlight]

I've definitely noticed a cereal, cheerios, grainy, corn flake taste with 2 row ... but it's usually when I'm sampling the beers young.
That's another reason I've been giving them an extra week in primary/secondary to mature before dry hopping. That flavor seems to go away with a little extra time.

Good to know.

Meanwhile, I was BSing with my one friend the other day and we were bitching about how there are no sour brewers here, not even a brewery making a sour (perhaps you could say Ithaca but that's like one sour every 2-3 years)... And with the Finger Lakes and wine country a few hours away, it really makes sense. I was thinking it would be cool to do what de garde did and brew a bunch of wort and drop it off different locations around the lakes to see if there's any yeast in the area worthafuk of making a sour.

Anyone wanna join me?

Yo Speed! How did you fair during last nights monsoon?

Did you not roll over in bed to find him there with you?

[icetrauma]

Did you not roll over in bed to find him there with you?

:sad:

[SpeedCheeser]

Yo Speed! How did you fair during last nights monsoon?

Chit was pretty crazy, but I did alright. Losing power from 2-6am was the worst that happened to me, thankfully. That and dealing with traffic this morning. 90/bw8 intersection was completely underwater, so went a different way and got stuck on the bw feeder for over an hour. Finally got out of that and had to double back to find a different route and start all over again. Hardly slept last night too between the constant thunder, the dog who's afraid of thunder going crazy, my truck alarm going off, the constant amber alerts telling me to watch out for flooding (as if the pounding of water we were taking wouldn't be sign enough), and the room getting hot as balls with no ac/fan when the power going out. But no damage to anything, and I'm still here, so all is well. How did you fare?

Did you not roll over in bed to find him there with you?

I like to sneak back out in the wee hours of the night.

[icetrauma]

Chit was pretty crazy, but I did alright. Losing power from 2-6am was the worst that happened to me, thankfully. That and dealing with traffic this morning. 90/bw8 intersection was completely underwater, so went a different way and got stuck on the bw feeder for over an hour. Finally got out of that and had to double back to find a different route and start all over again. Hardly slept last night too between the constant thunder, the dog who's afraid of thunder going crazy, my truck alarm going off, the constant amber alerts telling me to watch out for flooding (as if the pounding of water we were taking wouldn't be sign enough), and the room getting hot as balls with no ac/fan when the power going out. But no damage to anything, and I'm still here, so all is well. How did you fare?



I like to sneak back out in the wee hours of the night.

Lost power for a short time like 30 minutes and that's it. No water on the way home from work so that went smooth. Damn rug rats got a free day off of school.

As far as work goes we were on generators for about a hour.

[SpeedCheeser]

Lost power for a short time like 30 minutes and that's it. No water on the way home from work so that went smooth. Damn rug rats got a free day off of school.

As far as work goes we were on generators for about a hour.

Good deal. And win for the kiddos today. haha.

[StrongRepublican]

annnnnddddd I'm all caught up. Settled into Arizona for the next few weeks - Swingbrah let me in on two different Founders CBS tapping in the next few weeks so that's def going down.

San Diego was nice, totally slacked on my beer game though, only hit the MT tasting room (was able to try Black House w/ coconut & cocoa) and not a single other beer stop was made... for shame I know

[cyde]

Yo Speed! How did you fair during last nights monsoon?

I was at Barton Springs before the flash flood came in fast and hard. Life guards kicked us out just in time.

[TopsecretWaffle]

havent really been trading much lately. these showed up today tho.

[icetrauma]

I was at Barton Springs before the flash flood came in fast and hard. Life guards kicked us out just in time.

DAMN!!!! Glad you made it out in one piece.

havent really been trading much lately. these showed up today tho.

That's a lot of barrel mane. :O How well do you think that Rare is holding up?

[TopsecretWaffle]

DAMN!!!! Glad you made it out in one piece.




That's a lot of barrel mane. :O How well do you think that Rare is holding up?

had one last summer and it was still pretty awesome. should still be good

[cyde]

DAMN!!!! Glad you made it out in one piece.




That's a lot of barrel mane. :O How well do you think that Rare is holding up?

Barrel notes should be really soft and mellow right now, but the base beer will be amazeballs. Fudge bourbon brownies.

had one last summer and it was still pretty awesome. should still be good

What did you give up for KH and Rarez? Get your hands on a Cherry Rye. It's drinking incredibly well, bro. Dark choco cherries.

[TopsecretWaffle]

Barrel notes should be really soft and mellow right now, but the base beer will be amazeballs. Fudge bourbon brownies.



What did you give up for KH and Rarez? Get your hands on a Cherry Rye. It's drinking incredibly well, bro. Dark choco cherries.

my last double barrel huna and grey monday. made out pretty well. Solo'd a bottle of cherry rye a month or two ago. was amaze

[janky]

Glad to see all the TX bros are safe! Crazy sht going on out there

Side note:
As much as I dig sour beer, I'd kick a baby for a good IPA right now. The lack of any quality hoppy beers is killing me

[thefleshlight]

havent really been trading much lately. these showed up today tho.
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had one last summer and it was still pretty awesome. should still be good

I had one then too. Tasted like BCBS but less syrupy shyttyness to it.

Side note:
As much as I dig sour beer, I'd kick a baby for a good IPA right now. The lack of any quality hoppy beers is killing me

We've been dry here other than Grundle.

[DasBiceps]

More Moro Today

[thefleshlight]

More Moro Today

wat? Today is wed breh

[TheFugitive]

I'm dying for some Pliny, who can save me???

[TheFugitive]

Pipework's is releasing Ninja vs Unicorn in 16oz cans. They also lowered the ABV to 8.5%



Half Acre releases Vallejo in 16oz cans

[thefleshlight]

Registration ends by 5 EST boys. Gonna rape some SARA and SP

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