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TOPIC: What's on Tap?
 

Daddy Clay
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 9 Months ago
Last week when I was picking up the growlers for the live show on Thursday at the Whip In, Dipak, the proprietor of said establishment, looked at me and asked, "Have you tried a Raging Bitch?"

Before I could come up with a printable answer, Dipak plonked down a sixer. "No more than one," he cautioned.

I now know why. Wow. This Belgian style pale ale from Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, MD features 8.3% alcohol. That's Daddy Brad territory. So of course the flavor is a little sweet and hot from the booze, but the hop flavor is there too. Strong.

Worth a try. One try.
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ben
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 9 Months ago
Clay, that Belgian Pale sounds like it's another style. It should be malt and yeast focused with an ABV around 6%. Even a Strong Pale should be fruity and malty with a bit of alcohol (8-10%). Peaches, apricots, dried pineapple, that sort of flavor profile. But it sounds like a fun beer.

I'm taking a six of Two Brother's French Farmhouse Ale with me tonight. Judging a competition at Upland Brewing tomorrow, but thought I'd use it to bribe someone to drive me the 20 miles to our State Park cabin.

Turned in my Mutant Sour for this competition. We'll see what they think of it. There are only 9 judges and four of them are from here (3 hours from the competition) so we'll see how that works out.
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Daddy Clay
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 8 Months ago
Party beers? We've got an all day barbecue/jumpy house/birthday party coming up this weekend, so I went to Costco to provision up. When I'm buying party beers I usually go one part Miller Lite to one part "good beer."

Costco has usually has predictable offerings plus a few mixed cases plus one quirky case. The Belgian case is back, but I got one of those last year, and a few bottles lingered in the beer fridge for months. Mexican beers are popular down here, so I went for a case from Modelo that has both the light and dark styles.

I wonder what others buy for parties (when they aren't brewing a batch).
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ben
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 8 Months ago
I have a minikeg of Bell's Two Hearted Ale awaiting the perfect party for it's consumption.

I have cultured a pretty sophisticated beer crowd around me. They expect an event out of the beer.

So I will sometimes do the self-mixed sixes and grab a variety for small pour beer flights. Often, a few do the flight and share with others. I'll know where I want to start and end and can fill in the middle range pretty well.

A liquor store in town gives my beer club a 15% discount on bottles, so mixing your own six doesn't cost more than a six of the average beer in the selection, usually. I try to get one or two of mine in the mix for honest comparisons.

But our crowd isn't much of a drinking crowd and we don't host many parties these days.
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ben
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 8 Months ago
Those Eating: Infants, etc. topics still make me laugh.

Anyway, if you want to get beer for a bunch of parties, I think minikegs can be a good deal. If you can get some flavorful mild beers, like New Belgium Fat Tire or Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold, they'll be emptied and you won't have a mess of containers to throw out. You won't have open bottles with wasted beer sitting around, either. It can be sampled before committing to a 12oz serving. Make it simple, though. I wouldn't get more than one type. If you hit the middle road, it will be appreciated by 90% of the people you have over (who drink beer) and the others can bring their own next time.
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halldur
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 8 Months ago
Around here, we usually do a few 12-packs of local variety packs (Red Hook, Shipyard, and Smuttynose), some cheap pounder cans like Pabst, Schaefer or Schlitz, often some Stella Artois (for something lighter than the locals but better than the cheapos), and then whatever the hosts would normally drink. At our house that's usually covered by the locals. It tends to give a lot of variety so virtually everyone can find something they like.
Last Edit: 2010/05/17 18:03 By halldur.
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ben
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 2 Months ago
Sometime in the coming days I'm going to open a bottle of beer that was supposed to have been sent to DL almost a year ago. They were returned when UPS "handling" broke one bottle.

I'll either open up a Biere de Garde, a French Farmhouse Ale, or a Saison, a Belgian Farmhouse Ale. Both were pretty good in their days. The BdG has a better chance of holding up over the months since I packaged them.

This weekend, I'm brewing with butternut squash. It's a great substitute for pumpkins.
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ben
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 2 Months ago
Neither of those beers were great. I poured out a good bit of each. They weren't stored well and weren't made to take storage of a year, even under perfect circumstances.

But brewing that squash beer went well!
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pfanndad
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 2 Months ago
I just bottled my Celebration Ale.
Hopefully it will carbonate enough for our Christmas celebrations.

We also have a new HomeBrew club starting up at our LHBS next month.
Anyone here belong to a club?
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ben
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 2 Months ago
I'm very proud of my club. we've come a long way. When I joined in 2006, we had about 15 guys of which maybe 6 would show up each month. Now, we have more than 35 show up each month and probably a list of 150 people who have participated. We've also improved our brewing a great deal. We regularly send entries together and watch the results come in. Up in Frankenmuth last year, we brought home six gold medals and handfuls of other medals and ribbons. But more importantly, we drink a lot of really good beer each month.

I bottled a beer a week ago that I've decided to name "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something ... blew my face off." I used malt extract bought in 2004. I used some of the guy's equipment in making it. I picked pounds of hops off my hop trellis for the beer and it has just about every likable beer flavor possible. Citrus, herbal, spicy, grassy, smokey, roasty, sweet, dry, caramelly. Just everything and it's all on purpose. I'll take it and my sour that's been aging for a year to our Christmas party on Sunday. I also have a corney keg of the local brewery's Pale Ale. A friend got a keg for his daughter's wedding. After a week on the air pump, he was going to feed it to his pigs. I intervened and took 5 gallons to carbonate. He'll get some back in bottles.
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groovedaddy
Re:What's on Tap?
1 Year, 2 Months ago
Our local is doing quite well:
www.yeastwranglers.ca/

I''ve got a mini- brew club. 3 of us meet every 2 weeks to bottle the last batch and mix the next batch. Then we play Risk.
Every 2 weeks I come home with 60 bottles. I'm overstocked so I'm giving out 6-packs as christmas gifts.
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