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ully managed to hold off on buying a bottle of new glarus anniversary strong ale though that s partially because the display at a local grocery store has it tucked away in the back with a price tag for a bomber of serendipity under the still fully stocked shelf of beer anyway compulsion plays a huge role in my beer buying habits i constantly talk about adding beers i really enjoy to my rotation only to end up buying a new limited release every time i stop at the liquor store my experiences with compulsion are generally related to rarity if i think i ll like a beer but i don t know how long it will be around i ll jump at the opportunity to snatch up a couple bottles i m not one of the people who will grab an entire case of beer or stand in line for hours because of hype though i ll admit i will probably eventually make it to darkness or dark lord days but i generally have some idea what breweries i respect enough to try something a little off the wall as i write this post i m finishing off a bottle of shorts huma lupa licious that i bought the weekend of the great taste of the midwest in august of 2012 as a part of an effort to get rid of the absurd collection of bottles and cans around my mini fridge i had needless to say 9 months was a little bit too long to sit on this one but it was my last bottle to this point i haven t had much of an issue with hoarding my homebrew i loved the idea of sharing something that i made with family and friends within a week of discovering that the liquid that had been sitting in the corner of the room for a month was actually drinkable i had consumed or given away about half of my first batch while i ve been a little bit more careful since making that realization it should be about spent by the time my second batch is ready to be popped open posted by john parker at 8 30 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels homebrewing new glarus short s brewing company the session tuesday june 4 2013 brewing a local favorite sunday afternoon i achieved my goal of being equally excited about my third batch of beer as i was about my first 2 all my girlfriend and i really did was brew according to the instructions in the kit which was supposed to be less complicated than the spontaneous cocoa powder addition from batch 2 but the excitement for this third batch had less to do with what we were doing while brewing and more to do with what we were brewing namely a kit from my lhbs wine hop shop for vintage brewing company s scaredy cat stout pardon the clip art graphic design is a work in progress for me vintage is a local bar that decided to jump into the world of brewing after taking over a location on the west side where there used to be a brewpub called j t whitney s scaredy cat is their hoppy oatmeal though i d call it american stout i work in the printing department that prints all of vintage s beer menus and posters so i ve gotten the chance to meet many of the company s employees including brewmaster scott manning in my many visits to vintage scaredy cat has become a pretty edit very regular purchase of mine when i saw the kit in wine hop i knew that i needed to brew it the description on the box says that it s a great beer to keep you warm during cold winter nights so it s probably not a lot of people s first choice to brew in early june but my wonderful girlfriend got it for me as a birthday present and i m always down to drink some scaredy cat adding to the excitement of brewing one of my favorite brews was the realization that with my first batch of homebrew that didn t come from midwest supplies came an entirely different set of supplies and instructions and a little bit of frustration while wine hop has been a great source for information and has really helped me along the way in my brewing their kit for scaredy cat seems to need a little more proofreading while their process seems to have made a few tweaks to the one used by midwest in the interest of making better beer pouring water over the muslin bag after steeping to avoid tannins from squeezing out the bag this particular kit told us to boil for 45 or 60 minutes depending on the which paragraph you were reading and to use various quantities of water that are inconsistent except that they all add up to a near certain boilover but in the end brew day 3 went reasonably well i m a bit worried that we kept the boil too low in our efforts to prevent a boilover but i guess we ll find out in a couple weeks also while lifting the pot off of the burner every time the bubbles started shooting too high gave me a nice workout i think i m going to stick to buying wine hop s products but using midwest s process for my brews for the time being have you had the opportunity to brew your local favorite let s hear about it in the comments posted by john parker at 7 07 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels brewday homebrewing midwest supplies vintage brewing co wine hop shop sunday june 2 2013 brewday beer review yeah about that i ll upload asap well so much for brewing yesterday life and bottling my chocolate oatmeal stout that i m told tastes like a cookie got in the way and i had to hold off until tonight while i brew i m altering a common homebrewer mantra slightly in order to give my girlfriend a chance to try a brew that i got from a friend out east i m relaxing i m not worrying and i m having a commercial brew tonight i m starting off with a lancaster milk stout the pour yielded a thin light brown head that dissipated pretty quickly but left decent lacing on the glass the color was dark dark brown with just a thin layer of read along the bottom edge of the glass the flavor comes through quite a bit more to me than the aroma with a noticeable coffee flavor and a less distinct chocolate flavor that combine to create what i initially thought tasted like black licorice i didn t notice any offputting flavors one problem that i had with this beer was that for a milk stout it was a bit light on the lactose coffee was definitely the prevailing flavor while i m not one of the people who downgrades a beer as if i m grading in a competition i prefer milk stouts to coffee stouts so i was a bit disappointed by that while my girlfriend thinks this brew tops left hand s non nitro milk stout i think she s crazy i do think it s a solid offering i give it a b ratebeer s take on lancaster milk stout lancaster milk stout on untappd the beer according to its brewers have you had lancaster milk stout do you agree with my take let me know in the comments posted by john parker at 10 06 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels beer review lancaster brewing company stout saturday june 1 2013 in anticipation of brewday number three today is shaping up to be an awesome day i m going to be moving my second batch of homebrew into bottles brewing my third batch and all the while i ll be drinking what s left of my first batch i never realized how true it was that homebrew tends to disappear in a way that the commercial stuff doesn t before i even had a chance to get my second batch into the fermenter almost half of my first batch had either been consumed or given to friends that s a big part of the reason that i m going to be rushing into my third batch brewing my first batch my mind was in a million places at once i was anxiously pacing while trying to make sure i hadn t forgotten anything vital to the process in the end despite some minor hiccups i remembered to take the little plastic rings off of the water jugs i boiled but forgot to do the same for the liquid malt extract jug and spent a good 10 minutes trying to fish it out of the boiling hot dark brown liquid my second batch turned into another exciting brew session as i was getting ready to brew my chocolate stout from midwest supplies i discovered that midwest supplies doesn t have a chocolate stout kit but that i had instead purchased a kit for oatmeal stout my girlfriend was crushed as she has tended to like chocolate stout a lot more than oatmeal i consulted the internet about adding chocolate to beer and decided that cocoa powder would be an adequate solution to the problem with no description of how much beer they had been brewing we had no idea if we were doubling the recommended amount of cocoa powder with 8 ounces but it smelled more like beer than chocolate pudding so i think we made the right call regardless the spontaneous decision to throw the powder in made batch 2 another incredibly exciting one batch 3 is going to be a special brew for me for a completely unrelated reason but i ll explain that one after i get a good night s rest posted by john parker at 1 25 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels homebrewing midwest supplies saturday december 17 2011 tis the season it s december you know what that means time for christmas music ugly sweaters and rich dark porters and stouts west coast amber ales i might be alone on this one but while most in the craft beer community are shifting from pumpkin beers and oktoberfests into darker beers colder temperatures have had me craving hops far more than normal it probably has something to do with a great brew out of california a couple weeks ago after randomly picking it up at my local craft beer go to but that story is for another night tonight i m going to talk about a beer that comes from a little closer to home ambergeddon brewed by ale asylum right here in my hometown of madison wisconsin i first had an ambergeddon back in october of last year when i was just getting into craft beer and it might ve been a little more intense than i was ready for at the moment the second time i had it was over the summer at vintage spirits grill vintage has the absolute best deal on beer in madison 1 dollar wisconsin brews after 10 on monday nights in addition to a constant supply of ambergeddon they typically had at least one offering from furthermore another brewery in the madison area that has put out a lot of interesting brews anyway ale asylum is a brewery that s really taking off in the madison area it s a mainstay at a number of downtown locations in the city though it hasn t really managed to expand too far beyond city limits this beer has really hit the spot for me lately it s got the right amount of hops and alcohol that doesn t overwhelm right now i m definitely giving it a solid a beer advocate s take on ambergeddon it got a b in their new rating system huh shocker ratebeer s take on ambergeddon have you had ambergeddon do you agree with my take let us know in the comments posted by john parker at 1 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ale asylum furthermore sunday june 19 2011 happy fathers day happy fathers day to all the dads out there my mom and i headed over to the liquor store earlier today to pick up some beers for quality father son bonding my dad is a self described locovore so i decided to go with some beers that have more of a local flavor to them unfortunately none of the great breweries in madison sell beers that he doesn t get regularly so i had to stretch it a little bit i d say that new glarus is close enough to madison to count that as local so we got him a 4 pack of their imperial weizen as well as a bottle of their belgian red we finished it off with a beer that was local to me while i was living in milwaukee lakefront s bridge burner seriously i lived a few blocks from the brewery that was awesome dad and i split the bridge burner and each had an imperial weizen he definitively told me that he preferred the bridge burner frankly that surprised me a bit he generally prefers beers that are more like the weizen though he isn t huge on higher alcohol stuff so i guess it makes some sense i m not really sure which one of them i thought was better i love weizens and i definitely have no issues with higher alcohol but the bridge burner was a very good beer to be honest i m not actually a huge fan of a lot of the stuff at lakefront it s not bad beer it s just generally not my style but this was a very nice one the belgian red is an entirely different experience as it s a low alcohol cherry beer i actually got it for him on his recommendation and we split it i d agree with his initial take it s absolutely phenomenal did you give receive any father s day brews this year if so what posted by john parker at 5 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lakefront new glarus woodman s friday june 17 2011 better late than never well thanks to some computer issues i wasn t able to post for the session 52 this really sucked for me as it was a topic that is very relevant to this blog as host of session 52 i ve decided not to focus on the substance of beer but the material that plays a supporting role bottles coasters cans labels ads tap handles church keys hats t shirts tip trays glassware and signs have been collected by fanatics ever since beer has been sold i can probably come up with about 50 posts for this topic and since i m way too late for the session this month and all i m doing for the time being is working on job applications cover letters resumes and a plot in a community garden i think i ll give it a shot i guess that the natural place to start this topic for a blog about a beer bottle collection would probably be with the bottles back in the fall of 2010 my longtime friend phin moved into an apartment owned and operated by the university of wisconsin milwaukee the apartment that he moved into wasn t cleaned out particularly well as there were a number of alcohol bottles left on display the bottle that stood out to us was called sigmund snopek s a beer that was apparently brewed by lakefront brewery just a few blocks from our apartment it gave us the idea to put more bottles on display since then we ve moved into a new apartment where we at one point had 99 bottles of beer on the wall and then moved out of it after graduating college according to the facebook photo album i made we have at least 160 bottles in the collection i think it s probably over 200 but i haven t uploaded a lot of the pictures yet we made a set of rules about putting bottles onto the wall and have since come up with a number of unwritten rules unfortunately now that we re no longer living in that apartment the wall is currently a set of bags tucked back in a corner in my parents storage room i have a tendency to rate beers a little differently than most in that i break it down into rating the bottle and rating the beer itself for instance a review that i m planning on doing sometime in the near future is for a beer called polygamy porter it wasn t my favorite but it wound up being put on display translation it was one of 34 beers to be on the front row of one of the two shelves...