January what homebrew are you drinking

A scotch ale that I brewed for the holidays two years ago. Brewed with brown sugar, ancho chiles, and a little pie spice. 9% abv.

 

23% Rice 7.8% ABV IIPA : bittered with Chinook... Simcoe, Centennial, Citra late with standard 4 oz dry hop and 2 sachets of US-05
mmmm...good...must be liv'in right

 

The first proper pour from my first kegged batch. This is the AP NE IPA.

 

Testing the Weihenstephan Wheat

 

Did you bottle or keg? My heffes are never that cloudy except for maybe the first keg pour.

 

My house amber "Toasted Ale". My wife asked me awhile back if I could make something like Bluepoint Toasted Lager. I made this once with W34/70 and it was good but we both like it better with US05. Easy drinking beer that even the non beer nerds like. I make it a few times a year. The grain bill is probably more complicated than it needs to be but it works.
6lbs maris otter 58.5%
2lbs Munich 10L 19.5%
1lb Belgian caravienne 9.8%
.5lb crystal 60L 4.9%
.5lb white wheat 4.9%
.25lb carapils 2.4%
.75oz Northern Brewer 60 min
1oz Hallertau 5 min

 

A scotch ale with ancho chiles and brown sugar sounds amazing!

 

I didn't use any clearing agents and it's only been in the keg for 7 days. Another week and i'll bottle it.

 

Not my ESB, cause it just kicked last night! Threw on my Big barley wine this morning to start chilling down.. Been aging for a bit, anxious to give it a try and see how it has progressed.

 

It really is. I've brewed twice now for the holidays and it's one of the top two beers I've ever brewed.

 

First pour of my Cascade/Citra DIPA. Maris Otter as the base malt. This keg won't last long.

 

Drinking my NEIPA. Tasting absolutely delicious delicious. Dubbed it the fruit bomb IPA.

 

How did you incorporate the rice I've been thinking about trying that. Flaked rice?

 

Yes, flaked rice...kinda hard to find fresh (not stale) sometimes...I've used brown minute rice before, too if needed

 

Hey everyone I brewed the following great lakes Eddie Fitz porter clone on 11/6/16 and it's been kegged and carbonating since 12/15.

Og: 1.059 (actual 1.063)
Fg: 1.015 (actual 1.015)
ABV: 5.76% (actual 6.5%)
Ibu: 39
SRM: 31
5.5 gallons batch size
Mash temp: 154f
Target mash pH: 5.60 (actual 5.50)
Efficiency: 70% (measured was 80.5% with biab!)
Water: 100% ro built to target brewers friend london water profile

FERMENTABLES:
10.5 lb - American - Pale 2-Row (82.3%)
0.6 lb - American - Chocolate (4.7%)
0.6 lb - American - Roasted Barley (4.7%)- accidentally purchased 300L breiss rather than std 500L
0.9 lb - American - Caramel / Crystal 60L (7.1%)
0.16 lb - American - Carapils (Dextrine Malt) (1.3%)

HOPS:
0.52 oz - Northern brewer, Type: Pellet, AA: 10.6, Use: Boil for 60 min, IBU: 20.27
0.75 oz - Fuggles, Type: Pellet, AA: 4.5, Use: Boil for 40 min, IBU: 10.89
0.52 oz - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 20 min, IBU: 8.11
0.52 oz - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 0 min

Safale S04 ambient temp 61f

The beer is almost a perfect clone. Color/head/aroma are spot on. Taste is close, with mine having a slightly thicker mouth feel and not quite as much hop flavor in the finish. I'd probably reduce the mash temp a bit and up the cascade late additions and try the correct 500L roasted barley and be spot on . I think glbc uses London ale yeast so that may help as well but truth be told, I think I actually prefer mine. Did a triangle test on a friend and they detected a difference but preferred mine flavor wise.

Here's a comparison. Real deal on the left, paw prince porter (mine) on the right. Cheers!

 

Galaxy mosaic citra pale ale. It's several months old and hasn't been stored cold, but there is still hop fruitiness. And some licorice? Not sure where that came from, but interesting.

 

This is the first bottled sample of our Milk chocolate vanilla stout...This was aged in secondary/keg for 3 months on coca nibs and vanilla bean.

 

Finally racked the sour dark saison off of wine-soaked oak and currants after 10 months. Rehydrated with some champagne yeast and it's carbing up nicely. pH was around 3.4. Really happy with this one.