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ad day and i poured it a little overly aggressive my bad i got a lot of sweet character on the nose that i am attributing to the lactose in this sweet stout no hops esters or anything crazy but there was one aromatic that stood out above all else ginger let me just say i love ginger so that did not bother me at all i love how aggressive it was whether that was the brewers intention or not fantastic move i hate when a beer advertises a specific ingredient and you cannot find it at all even something as simple as bourbon barrel aged as you can see from the photo the big fluffy tan head and the beer poured quite clear and deep brown the first sensation you get while drinking this one is the ginger that is cut by a very roasty bitter character sweet initially but then dries out and finishes slightly astringent but i would say appropriately so creamy full body perfect carbonation a little chocolate malt characteristic in there as well a nice warming character to round it all out i love this beer and glad it made the calendar might have been better on a cooler night but the advent calendar gods decided this would be the day cheers homebrew advent calendar day 2 homebrew advent calendar day 1 december 2 2013 allen huerta 2013 belgian special ale bjcp prep homebrew homebrew advent calendar review tasting notes leave a comment everyone that has heard me speak of the homebrew advent calendar has been asking all sorts of questions even before i knew all the answers the easiest thing i have found to tell them is well it is kind of like a chocolate advent calendar kind of like my 12 days of beermas but this time with 24 actually 25 beers and instead of them all being commercial again like beermas they are all homebrews now how might this work do i really have to brew 24 different beers to be able to enjoy one a day until christmas the beauty of this calendar set up by bull city homebrew is that i only had to contribute 1 beer to the calendar well 24 beers but you know what i mean totally takes out a lot of the work now that we have finally reached december 1st it is time to enjoy the beers one thing i failed to mention just like a true advent calendar you do not know what you are going to get until you open up the door bottle keeps you on your feet and it is a big surprise more fun than blind pickups at the store the guys at bull city gave us two options of how to access the beer information everyday there is a thread posted to the forum we are using for the organization of this calendar the thread contains all the information about the beer we are to be drinking on said day the part that is up to you do you want to read the description first or do you want to drink the beer first which did i choose well it is easier to writ these post while looking at the description and tasting the beer so that is the route i went the first beer is a belgian special ale not my beer and not really sure what exactly that is but i attributed it to the belgian pale ale category shrugs the beer started around 1 060 finished 1 010 6 7 abv used wyeast 1214 which is a belgian abbey yeast and it had a fairly simple base recipe with only bittering hop additions notes from the brewer the yeast should shine through with a nice red color and decent body for a winter version of a beer i ve tried before lets dive in right as i opened up this bottle esters filled the room it had a very big banana aroma there was a slight phenolic presence but it was very light and hard to come by you could also pull out a light beady character but not much at all no hop aroma as well i thought the aroma was pretty one dimensional but again big a short lived creamy very small white head formed on top but it dissipated just as fast as it came and a hazy copper color is what presented itself in front of me the very first and most prevalent taste throughout the beer was a yeasty character i don t mean like yeast flavors i mean a big yeasty taste past that you get a slight toast in the background no hop flavor a bit on the maltier side of the spectrum light phenols and a bunch of banana esters working with the toasted flavors it was kind of like banana bread i enjoyed that because i enjoy banana bread and also wells banana bread i thought i caught some light citrus flavors toward the finish but nothing distinguishable as the hop bitterness began to show its way through a slick oily mouthfeel very low carbonation level a medium body with a dry finish but it proceeded to seem a bit astringent slight warmth in the finish as well but at a very low level overall i thought there were some pretty strong characteristics that detracted from the overall experience of this beer but it was not a bad beer to start the calendar out on i thought the flavors seemed pretty one dimensional the banana and bready characters is what stuck out the most other than the yeast characteristic that held overhead the astringency in the finish was also something that detracted from the overall experience i suggested as well as a few others to the brewer that he pitch a higher concentration of yeast make a starter when brewing this again and maybe take another look at the base of the recipe i am not sure much about the recipe i e fermentation temperature mash temp etc etc but these are also issues that can possibly be looked at for various reasons in the recipe anyway day 1 is down 23 24 more to go i wonder what else is in store cheers homebrew advent calendar day 1 learn to homebrew day november 8 2013 allen huerta 2013 american homebrewers association craft beer nation eggnog milk stout homebrew learn to homebrew day ls ales the beer fairy 2 comments so as we all know or should know the american homebrewers association s learn to homebrew day was november 2nd this year 2013 people all over the country had set up events or even just something as simple as inviting their friends over for a lesson breweries homebrew shops etc etc etc just who ever wanted to share the love of homebrew for those of you who were not able to go out or had no events in your area this year the craft beer nation set up a hangout to briefly talk about homebrewing the ingredients and things you might need to get started you can watch that video here the beer fairy ashley and i showed up to talk about all that i hope we answered most basic questions but if you are watching you and you have further question feel free to ask here twitter or on google for learn to homebrew day i figured i would make a new beer for christmas one i have been wanting to do and trying to figure out for a few years eggnog is one of my favorite drinks and i am disappointed that without making it yourself you can only get it at one time of the year so hopefully finally i am able to get this eggnog milk stout to work the only way i thought to accomplish it was to use lactose nutmeg cinnamon and vanilla bean maybe i will add some vanilla when i keg it i guess it depends the character i want get the brewday went off without a hitch honestly a very simple brew one hop addition for bittering simple mash and a 60 minute boil i considered doing it for 90 minutes but i didn t i came in a few points low but that could be because i was aiming for 1 088 i think i d have to look at my notes instead of thinking off the top of my head i added all my spices and lactose at the 5 minute remaining mark because it was suggested to me that any earlier and i would lose the aromatic quality of my spices not what i want to do at all so yea once it ferments out i will take my first sips and report back how it taste i hope i hit the mark and can finally have another form of eggnog cheers learn to homebrew day sierra nevada beer camp august 7 2013 allen huerta 2013 beer camp contest craft beer homebrew sierra nevada the best beer in the world vote 4 comments so once again it is that time of year where sierra nevada has opened up their beer camp contest and released a 12 pack of some of their favorite beers actually i have no idea how they select what beers go into the packs the first year they were all random numbers and i think the same as last year this year batch 93 94 95 are in the mixer i will post my thoughts on those beers really soon and it gives me more opportunities to plug this post why do i want to plug this post well i am need your votes the more votes i get the higher my odds of going to beer camp are the title of my video is the best beer in the world which is kind of a parody of tribute from tenacious d basically it follows me as i am to bring a demon the best beer in the world you can check out the video over at the sierra nevada beer camp site you are allowed to vote once a day between now and september 30th now that my video is live please help and have your friends help and their friends help and maybe their bosses but hey that might be pushing it there are some things i wish i could have done differently but for only 10 minutes of shooting and then cutting this video together in order to get it submitted 3 days past opening hey it is done and submitted more time for votes i m off to a decent start already but those that were submitted at the very beginning already have over 100 votes so i need to catch up and maintain it for almost 2 months this could be tricky as new submissions roll in but it will be worth it and it was a very fun video to shoot anyway i am sure you will hear more details about this later for now enjoy my video enjoy some good beer and thank you for your votes cheers sierra nevada beer camp mead making july 2 2013 allen huerta 2013 homebrew homebrewing honey ls ales mead leave a comment i have been wanting to do this for a while i have had the honey and everything just sitting there i don t know what was really keeping me no excuses but hey i finally jumped on it and started to make it not really exciting i know but here is a bowl full of honey i decided to make three different kinds of mead nothing special just a few standard recipes a dry a semi sweet and a hydromel semi sweet whatever that mean i discovered that this is a bit easier than i first believed i mean i am not brewing for a competition or anything just for my own enjoyment and to further the limits of my essentially limitless hobby i am sure things get a bit more difficult with specific plans in mind or when trying to perfect a recipe for judging but for me right now nah they are all 1 gallon batches and in the first one after i was chilling the must whatever it is you call the mixture of honey and water i should probably learn this terminology i walked away for a minute to check on further directions i left the water running since i was creating an ice bath like mixture i guess my kettle thought it would be a good idea to start floating and it ended up getting a bit of water inside the kettle i decided to boil it down to the volume i wanted no idea how this will effect the mead but hey at least i messed up early and not when it mattered i did not use any mead yeast just some champagne yeast that i picked up along with some nutrients i decided to use two different kinds of yeast because the last recipe was exactly the same besides the yeast decision rehydrated as i would for beer and pitched very simple right i got all of it into the carboys and into my fermentation chamber i was instructed to release excess co2 every other day or so while i have not been very on my game when it came to that i did it two day after i pitched the yeast funny story eh i just picked up the jugs and swirled them around the first two went without flaw perfect airlock just bubbled and i moved on did i mention i did this on my lunch break the third one i used the exact same swirl method the one that had the green yeast packet in it and booooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmm all over me all over the ceiling all over the room i guess maybe i should have known better but oh well i went back to work smelling like straight alcohol no one noticed or said anything to me but i did feel quite sticky not to mention that i had to mop the ceiling i went my whole brewing career without having to do that damn i will post back with tasting notes etc but i have no idea how long i am going to keep in the fermentation vessels before bottling only time will tell cheers mead making hop watch june 7 2013 allen huerta 2013 chinook cluster homebrew hops in pots ls ales rhizomes leave a comment it has been a while since i planted my hops so i figured i would show a few little updates especially since the hops are starting to get a little bit of cone formation here is a look back to when i planted my chinook and cluster rhizomes to begin with so exciting seeing the first sprouts my chinook before i figured it would be a good time to add my trellis lines had to train them up to begin but they started to take off pretty damn well chinook in front cluster in back look how fantastic the chinook is doing and how wimpy the cluster is doing i hope that it is strong enough to survive the winter more pictures to come soon cheers hop watch international homebrew project 2013 april 26 2013 allen huerta 2013 burton ale fuggled homebrew ihp2013 ls ales 1 comment oh the international homebrew project 2013 i have been looking forward to doing this as soon as i heard about it especially since i missed out on a few years in the past i thought that this year was even more perfect due to the fact that i have always wanted to brew a burton ale well at least in current history and that is what was on tap for this years ihp the recipe was pretty simple which lead me to believe that this would be a very simple brewday sometimes i should just shut my big mouth when these things are going down it honestly started great but as time when on oh as time went on i have been wanting to make the move from pellet hops to leaf hops and since i found a good deal on cluster and i needed a ton of it i picked it up and decided this would be my first step toward that switch there is nothing wrong with pellet hops i have used them ever since i started brewing in 2009 i just love the look feel and smell of leaf hops that was essentially what made this decision for me at first i was just going to throw the hops in there without any kind of filter when i first started brewing i used cheese cloth to contain my pellet hops but after time found it was unnecessary and just threw them directly into the kettle i was told time and time again that this was a bad idea for this batch and i was going to ignore that advice but i had some cheese cloth lying around from way back when so i decided to use it but anyway maybe i should take a few steps back since there were some issues with this brewday the mash pretty simple and straight forward for this beer but sometimes even that could go wrong this was what i saw after i mashed in and everything seemed to be going so smooth yeah so smooth when i went to collect my runnings the drainage tube immediately filled up with grains i had 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