Pics of your German (-style) (home-)brews

I don't homebrew but I'm looking forward to these photos!

 

The Spezial pictures didn't turn out so great, which is why I ended up posted a picture of the box they were delivered in. Funny story, though, because you're hitting on a nerve. I agreed to split the case with my wife. As it is, I have gone over my share of the allotment. She does not drink more than a beer or two each week, so her share, or at least some of it, is still in our pantry. It is just sitting there gathering dust, quietly approaching it's best-before date, and I can't do a thing about it.

In the spirit of the thread, though, I will post a picture that (I think?) I haven't posted before. This beer, if entered into a homebrew competition, would win last place.

 

In honor of the OP:

 

One of my all time favourites

 

Me neither!

 

You put the URL of the web page (http://aktiongutesbier.de/orte/gräfenberg/), not the image itself (http://aktiongutesbier.de/s/cc_images/cache_2415413046.jpg?t=1260830636)
or here:

I think everyone knows who/what I like best here in Germany, or do I need to repost all the Pax images I have together?

 

My Nutella stout... ask Stahlsturm for a review.

 

Well so much for thinking Nutella would kill the head retention.

 

The anti-dote to Fernsehbier: my homebrew... Axis & Allies IPA, and mix of German & Belgian malts, British yeast and American hops... the best beer I've ever made!

 

Nutella isn't in the beer. In the boil, I threw in cocoa powder, vanilla beans and chopped hazelnuts. In 2ndary, I put in extracts (soaked in vodka) of cocoa beans, vanilla beans and chopped hazelnuts. Those are the 3 ingredients of Nutella, hence "Nutella" stout.

 

Did it work?

 

Great beer... not too chocolaty, but still noticable...hints of hazelnuts and vanilla,... very creamy beer. Great flavor. Very hard for me to define the exact flavor, but everyone loves it.

 

I don't know who else besides Tony and me had it but I can assure you, it worked. It's not something I could drink by the bucket but that was never the intention and it's very yummy

 

Boddhitree, if your Cissy clone works out OK I'd love to try it. I'm only an hour or so away from the FFM Hbf and I promise not to show up at 8:15 am.

 

You can show up there any time, just bring a case of (good Bavarian) beer

 

A case of Bavarian beer is quite persuasive.

I have some really cool news. Andreas Seufert wrote me back yesterday when I asked him via email what percentages of malts, especially Rauchmalz, he used in his Cissy IPA.

Got that? So last night I couldn't sleep thinking about this and used BeerSmith to make 2 recipes. The 1st is basically a straight recipe from the instructions in the email, and the 2nd is... unfortunately, I don't have all those ingredients on hand and order online takes a week, I want to brew it this weekend, so here are my substitutions for what's in my inventory. Strangely, I'm out of Hallertauer hops, and sadly don't have Cascade or Saphir on hand. Also, I don't have the capacity to do all grain, which leads me to sub DME and I add a bit of a Brit. malt to provide diastatic power of enzymes.
This is for a 30 L batch. I can resize it and change it to imperial measurements if anyone wants.

Pilsner malt: 4.34 kg
Münchner malt: 3.9 kg
Rauch malt: 0.45 kg
Carafa Dunkel (I have Weyermann's Carafa Special II): 0.36 kg

Hallertauer @ 60 min.s: 140 g
Hallertauer @ 10 min.s: 36 g

Saphir @ whirlpool: 100 g
Cascade @ whirlpool: 100 g

Saphir @ dryhop: 160 g
Cascade @ dryhop: 80 g
Again, a 30 L batch.

DME: 3.45 kg
Münchner malt: 2.2 kg (all I presently have in stock) = 21%
Melanoidin malt: 1.333 kg = 12.7%
Vienna malt: 0.42 kg = 4%
Pale Malt-Halcyon Thomas Fawcett: 1 kg = 9.5%
Rauch malt: 0.533 kg = 5%
Carafa Special II (Weyermann): 0.42 kg = 4%

Northern brewer @ 60 min.s: 100 g
Northern brewer @ 10 min.s: 50 g
Chinook @ whirlpool: 100 g
Summit @ whirlpool: 100 g
Northern brewer @ dryhop: 60 g
Citra @ dryhop: 120 g

Whatcha think of it?