What Homebrew Are You Drinking? December Edition

{belated electrons, from yesterday}
Sour Blonde, dry hopped with Nelson, from the cellars of @Supergenious. A really good beer. Split the bottle with @DrewF, who made perhaps the most relevant observation: "I'd pay money for this."

 

Merry Christmas. My festivities start tonight. Time for some fun. Bier vom speziellen Fass is filled with some Speziellen Helles for Christmas festivities.

 

Mr. Jingles Xmas ale, an attempt at a Sierra celebration clone. Used bry 97 for the first time for shits and while it made for a nice rounded beer, it took forever to start finished higher than I wanted (should have mashed lower to account for this), and seems to have striped a bit of the hop flavor when it dropped. Nonetheless tasty approximation. Happy holidays!

 

Next up blonde mama blonde, brewed for my wife who had our first child the day after I brewed this about 3 weeks ago. For as young as it is lots of promise. Crisp, clean, a touch of fruitiness and sulphur from the kolsch yeast, which will take awhile to fully clear. Nice slight bready flavor from the small wheat addition and great subtle hop aroma and flavor from Columbus and cascade. A perfect warm weather beer for winter in upstate NY!

 

Congrats!

 

Congrats to you & your wife - what a nice Christmas present you received 3 weeks ago!

 

Nelson plays so well with brett and lacto.

 

Drinking a neighbor's homebrew, a very good robust porter. He gave me several bottles in August in exchange for the loan of some equipment and a few of my own brews. Nice, super clean and flavorful. Wish I had held on to the others for awhile.

 

Chocolate Stout

 

Tasting...not drinking a Pilsner that's been carbing/lagering since before Thanksgiving...2308 and 2002...CTZ bittering to 24 IBUs and another 10 IBUs from late addition Mt. Hood
Coming along nicely
Also sampling a Citra and El Dorado IPA...both for non-profit gig in late January
Drinking mostly Celebration and gifts in Dec. and waiting for Bigfoot in Jan.
Thanks to @JackHorzempa for a wonderful Zwickelbier/Kellerbier/Pilsner

 

The family is all finally here



For the son
Standard lager, malty Burton light, the not so infected Burton ale and smoked magik

For the daughter
M shell stout Christmas addition, Oaked or on vanilla beans,
Brothers wake up dead clone on nibs or on oak/hard maple, countess of Vt, faceplant brown and the last bottle of rIS smoky blue Boris.

3 session/pale/ or IPAs for my wife

And I get them all

Happy holidays from Vermont.

 

The Spezielle Helles was quite the hit. 93% barke pils malt, 4% carahell, 3% caramunichIII, 18ibu.

 

Happy new year! Blonde mama blonde ale again. So damn drinkable and pretty much flawless at this point. Crisp, dry subtle hop presence and the bit of wheat and kolsch Yeast work well

 

Princeman's brother Neipa 6.5% sloop juice bomb clone with loads of citra, Simcoe and Amarillo.

 

Happy new year Christmas stout and Irish stout