May edition: what homebrew are you drinking?

Irish stout and a session pale.

 

@jbakajust1 Is the name of your beer:

"Saison after mowing the lawn and spreading new seed, fertilizer, and weed killer."?

 

Finishing off my last homebrew. NEIPA hopped with Citra, El Dorado and Mosaic.

 

Still drinking my DDH Juicy Bits clone. It's dropping clear in the bottles, I can see my fingers through the glass. It's still a tasty ass beer. Lots of ripe fruit, orange rind, a bit of dankiness rounding it out. I can't wait to get through this beer, next ipa is going to be clear, and heavy on Chinook, Columbus, and dryhopped with citra.

 

APA made with Golden Promise malt and combo of Columbus and Mosaic, mainly late hopped, whirlpool hopped, and dry hopped. Ratio was close to 1:1 - would go with less Columbus next time, seems to be cancelling out some of the fruitier flavors from the mosaic.

 

I can finally post here! After a 5 year hiatus I am now drinking my first homebrew. A quick Extract Hefe, which is ok but not my best one. Still after 5 years drinking something I brewed again is so great. I am rebuilding my mash tun this weekend so I'll be back to All-Grain and my old recipes in no time!

 

My Hibiscus Cream Ale

 

This is my second pull from my solera. So, basically, a blend of one and two year old sour beer. Then it sat on 10 pounds (2 pounds per gallon) of sour cherries for 3 months.

 

Galaxy & Simcoe NE IPA. Delicious. Kegged 5 weeks ago, getting better each week.

 

Belgian dubble brewed with Kyoto cherry blossom tea..

 

Hoppy wheat beer that I brewed on 4.23 and tapped on 5.8. 5.1,% 50ish ibu with ne style water profile. White wheat, golden promise, pilsner and honey malt. Citra, chinook and Amarillo hops with so4 yeast. Very pleased so far! Happy Sunday. Ps carbonation is better I just poured shitty

 

Saison with pilsner, wheat, rye hopped with saaz and Syrian goldings

 

Citra Eureka Amarillo IPA with juice yeast Double dryhopped with the trio plus Columbus. First time I've gotten onion from Columbus Dryhop but it's super dank too.
Other 5 gal is double dryhopped with mosaic in place of Columbus. Both tasty Columbus version is dank while mosaic is tropical

 

Finishing off the rest of my 'cold weather' beers (I'm in San Diego, so that means low 60s. Ha ha!). One is an attempt at an Old Rasputin clone. Came pretty close. I used wlp007 in it, and fermented at the high end of the range, and got a bit more character than I was looking for. I might go with a more neutral strain next time, and see how it goes. Probably wlp001. The other is my first go at a wee heavy. Came out great. Final gravity was a tad higher than I would like at 1.030, but still well within the range for the style. I'll have to tweak it a bit, but I should be able to get into the mid to low 1.020s, which would be just right.

 

More homebrew saison. So good. Perfect for this ninety degree weather.excited the new batch will be carbed in a few days

 

Despite all my concerns, the citra pale ale is very tasty!

2nd batch a success!

Cheers!

 

This is based off of @Soneast 's Kolsch recipe. Going down fast. Thanks Soneast! It's 60F outside and the sun is beaming. Perfect Kolsch weather.

*Note: This batch followed my yeast experiment batch where I divided a 5 gallon wort into two 2.5 gallon batches (of a NEIPA). One used Weihenstephaner yeast and the other London III 1318. Friends said they were both fine. I got major band-aid and burning plastic smells from them. They were both heavily dosed with Galaxy and Simcoe. Recently, I had some 100% Simcoe hopped brews and discovered I am sensitive to Simcoe and got the same band-aid/plastic smell. Anyway, this batch kind of let me know that my procedures are probably decent.

 

Still drinking this nelson saison. I brewed it in december, and the nelson hops still pop. Tons of phenols from the dupont strain, damn good for %4. I wish my NEIPA held on to its haze and hop flavors like this.

 

Drinking on a Belgian Pale that was hopped with Hallertau Blanc. Threw tons of white wine character. Super easy drinker at 5.5% and just took second in a recent comp.