So the Pliny the elder clone turned out really great
Now I have to somehow drink up the 20 liters of 8% beer i made ^^;
Send some over, I'll help lol.
Brewed up a brown ale this past weekend, this is the 3rd iteration of it. We tweaked the recipe a little bit to give it a maltier backbone and upped the ABV from 5.1 to 5.8, hit our numbers spot on. Once it finishes up we are going to add coffee to it, as we always do. We are going to take a gallon and add age it on some oak for about a week as well, just to see what it will add.
The NEIPA is bottled up and drinking really, really awesome. I'll open another one today and post some pictures. This is definitely the best version of it we've made.
Helped a friend move last week and inherited his NEIPA, the bucket, and the airlock it came with. I kegged it three days ago. Definitely less juicy than the prevailing trend, but good nonetheless. Definitely screwed up my brew schedule, but whatever.
Also inherited 5 gallons of Concord Grape reduction, which I've pitched 2 packets of White Labs Champagne Yeast on top off. I'm not a Vintner, but it'll be fun to experiment on.
As for my own, just tried my Steamtoberfest Bier and it is pretty much to the BJCP Festbier style for something that was hot fermented and then lagered, so I'm pretty happy with it. Aroma and flavor notes are appropriate for something that is basically just Pilsner malts and Oktoberfest yeast. Oh yeah, naturally carbonated to about 10 PSI apparently, which saves me some tank CO2 I guess (not like that's expensive).
