2016 QLD Xmas Case Swap (Tasting Thread)

[Parks]

1. evoo4u - Julebryg
2. Aydos - Galaxy Pale ale
3. Liam_Snorkel - Impish Stout - 2.0% ABV (Drink NOW)
4. Ballantyne
5. madpierre06 - Funky Saison (Drink in 5 months or now - Orval dregs)
6. Earle - Choc Wheat IPA (Drink NOW)
7. Luggy - Oatmeal Stout
8. Davy - Rye Pale
9. Peege - Ainsley Harriot (milk stout)
10. Benken25 - American farmhouse with mulberry and chilli (Drink NOW)
11.
12. Beersuit - Belgian Blonde
13. evoo4u - APA
14. Ciderman - Mulberry Sour (Drink NOW if bottle firm)
15.
16. giatuprs - Rex Banner's Bannier Hammer XPA - upscaled version of Brewditos' Brett APA from that Bacchus thing (Drink NOW)
17. pcqypcqy - Robust Porter.
18. Nickxb - Coconut Rum Porter (Drink NOW)
19.
20.
21. Peege - Grvm RIPA (Red IPA)
22. madpierre06 - Hopp-a-long Saison (Drink NOW)
23. Parks - 7.2% Black IPA (Drink NOW)
24. tazman1967 "Scorched Earth" Smoked Saison

Update your beer with when it's ready or other specific consideration.

Ben - your bottles are rock solid

 

[benken25]

Yeah mine are good to go

 

[Ciderman]

Mine was bottled on the 8th December. Should be ready to go if your bottle is firm

 

[madpierre06]

No. 5 - bottle refermented with Orval dregs starter, so give it 3 or 4 monbths to develop if you want, otherwise it should be good to go whenever

No. 22 - Drink now.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

#3 ready now

 

[earle]

#6 Choc Wheat IPA - drink now

 

[nickxb]

#18 is good to go now.

 

[Beersuit]

#12 needs a week or so to carb. Will be hitting its prime in a month though. Sorry.

 

[Peege]

#9 drink now (might be a gusher as my last batch was)
#21 bottled Dec 16, leave for 2 weeks

 

[Coodgee]

Come on someone open one! Our are you all too hung over?

 

[madpierre06]

Heh...tomorrow.

 

[ballantynebrew]

1. evoo4u - Julebryg
2. Aydos - Galaxy Pale ale
3. Liam_Snorkel - Impish Stout - 2.0% ABV (Drink NOW)
4. Ballantyne - funktown pale ale -5.4% abv fermented since 9 oct- bottled 14/12/16- drink when hard
5. madpierre06 - Funky Saison (Drink in 5 months or now - Orval dregs)
6. Earle - Choc Wheat IPA (Drink NOW)
7. Luggy - Oatmeal Stout
8. Davy - Rye Pale
9. Peege - Ainsley Harriot (milk stout)
10. Benken25 - American farmhouse with mulberry and chilli (Drink NOW)
11.
12. Beersuit - Belgian Blonde
13. evoo4u - APA
14. Ciderman - Mulberry Sour (Drink NOW if bottle firm)
15.
16. giatuprs - Rex Banner's Bannier Hammer XPA - upscaled version of Brewditos' Brett APA from that Bacchus thing (Drink NOW)
17. pcqypcqy - Robust Porter.
18. Nickxb - Coconut Rum Porter (Drink NOW)
19.
20.
21. Peege - Grvm RIPA (Red IPA)
22. madpierre06 - Hopp-a-long Saison (Drink NOW)
23. Parks - 7.2% Black IPA (Drink NOW)
24. tazman1967 "Scorched Earth" Smoked Saison

Update your beer with when it's ready or other specific consideration.

Ben - your bottles are rock solid

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Come on someone open one! Our are you all too hung over?

got some on ice!

 

[evoo4u]

#1 and #13 both good to go.

Currently sitting on the deck looking over to the scene of last night's merryment, enjoying an annonymous glass tallie of a nice hoppy something which was left on the benchtop just along from the urn. Don't know who fathered it, but very nice.

Also enjoying some beautiful smoked peanuts which we found in the cleanup. Whose were they and what's the smokey flavour? They're going down a treat.

Thanks to all for the great range of beers we enjoyed, and very happy to have hosted the swap - look forward to the next one.

 

[evoo4u]

And watching the storms brewing all around us! VERY lucky with the weather yesterday...

 

[benken25]

#1 and #13 both good to go.

Currently sitting on the deck looking over to the scene of last night's merryment, enjoying an annonymous glass tallie of a nice hoppy something which was left on the benchtop just along from the urn. Don't know who fathered it, but very nice.

Also enjoying some beautiful smoked peanuts which we found in the cleanup. Whose were they and what's the smokey flavour? They're going down a treat.

Thanks to all for the great range of beers we enjoyed, and very happy to have hosted the swap - look forward to the next one.

The peanuts are my doing. They are just salted peanuts with a bit of cajun seasoning and a quick smoke on the bbq

 

[Aydos]

1. evoo4u - Julebryg
2. Aydos - Galaxy Pale ale - Bottled 16/12 so leave it until at least 30th. It will be ready for new years!
3. Liam_Snorkel - Impish Stout - 2.0% ABV (Drink NOW)
4. Ballantyne - funktown pale ale -5.4% abv fermented since 9 oct- bottled 14/1216
5. madpierre06 - Funky Saison (Drink in 5 months or now - Orval dregs)
6. Earle - Choc Wheat IPA (Drink NOW)
7. Luggy - Oatmeal Stout
8. Davy - Rye Pale
9. Peege - Ainsley Harriot (milk stout)
10. Benken25 - American farmhouse with mulberry and chilli (Drink NOW)
11.
12. Beersuit - Belgian Blonde
13. evoo4u - APA
14. Ciderman - Mulberry Sour (Drink NOW if bottle firm)
15.
16. giatuprs - Rex Banner's Bannier Hammer XPA - upscaled version of Brewditos' Brett APA from that Bacchus thing (Drink NOW)
17. pcqypcqy - Robust Porter.
18. Nickxb - Coconut Rum Porter (Drink NOW)
19.
20.
21. Peege - Grvm RIPA (Red IPA)
22. madpierre06 - Hopp-a-long Saison (Drink NOW)
23. Parks - 7.2% Black IPA (Drink NOW)
24. tazman1967 "Scorched Earth" Smoked Saison

 

[angus_grant]

::subscribe::
:-(

 

[giatuprs]

#10 Ben's Mulberry US Saison featuring one of two of Ben's glasses that are in my posession.

Refreshing - high carb, serve very cold. I wasn't sure about the combo on paper but I like it. What hops are they Ben? I'm a bit off really funky saisons and this isn't one of them. In fact there were quite a few gooduns floating around yesterday too!

Currently brewing a direct ripoff of Peege's smoked robust porter that was so popular yesterday. Except I've upped the rauchmalz from 2kg to 3kg h34r:

 

[Davy]

#8 bottled 17th of December last minute bottling

 

[Liam_snorkel]

10. Benken25 - American farmhouse with mulberry and chilli
High carbonation but easy pour. Fruity & slightly vegetal aroma that might be the chilli, v refreshing as Goati said, slightly tart zing and starting to get a hum of chilli on my lips while nearing the end of the bottle. Also getting some pepper in the aroma as it warms up. Solid lacing also. Good stuff as always

 

[giatuprs]

#23 Parks' Black IPA.

On the stoutier side of black IPA - so many black IPAs are IPAs that just happen to be black rather than ones like this. This is my preference. Is gud. Not overwhelmingly hoppy, in fact I guess subtle for a 7% IPA, but what is there is delicious and fresh.

Edit: Joisius that image size. Testing AHB uploader...

 

[Liam_snorkel]

14. Ciderman - Mulberry Sour
Pink/crimson & fizzy. Heaps of fruit in the aroma with some nutty dough-like funk. Sour and fruity. No head retention, thanks lacto. Delicious.

 

[benken25]

The hops are citra mosaic and falconers flight. They are all but lost in the rest of the beer

 

[giatuprs]

#14 Ciderman Mulberry Sour

Sorry but the aroma and taste in the back of my palate of bread yeast overwhelms what is otherwise a beer I can taste the delicious aspects of. Liam just described it as "doughy" but liked it so I wonder if it's just a personal taste issue? There was a lot of headspace in the bottle, could this be a factor? I love the sourness and the berries - this type of beer is definitely my jams. I really want to like it but can't overcome the aforementioned issue. Kudos for taking the time to brew a legit sour. I've only ever done 'fake' sours with lactic acid!

 

[Aydos]

10. Benken25 - American farmhouse with mulberry and chilli

As others have mentioned this beer is delicious. A nice fruity and peppery aroma which is evident in the flavour too. The pepper character from the yeast is very nice and balances out the beer quite well. The Chilli is quite subdued and I'm not sure I am even detecting it.

I could easily drink a few of these in a sitting, now I want to make a saison.

Cheers mate!

 

[Ciderman]

#14 Ciderman Mulberry Sour

Sorry but the aroma and taste in the back of my palate of bread yeast overwhelms what is otherwise a beer I can taste the delicious aspects of. Liam just described it as "doughy" but liked it so I wonder if it's just a personal taste issue? There was a lot of headspace in the bottle, could this be a factor? I love the sourness and the berries - this type of beer is definitely my jams. I really want to like it but can't overcome the aforementioned issue. Kudos for taking the time to brew a legit sour. I've only ever done 'fake' sours with lactic acid!

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I left it on the fruit longer than i usually would. I think it's picked up some brettanomyces on the journey, which is fairly dominant. Had a couple of 3rd parties green light the beer as I'm a bit sensitive to brett (if that's what it is)

It didn't fully attenuate so it's retained some juicy berry sweetness. Given it soured to about 3.2ph it's leveled at a nice balance.

The beer was a little out of my comfort zone of brewing so I'm sure I'll be better for it next attempt.

 

[giatuprs]

I left it on the fruit longer than i usually would. I think it's picked up some brettanomyces on the journey, which is fairly dominant. Had a couple of 3rd parties green light the beer as I'm a bit sensitive to brett (if that's what it is)

It didn't fully attenuate so it's retained some juicy berry sweetness. Given it soured to about 3.2ph it's leveled at a nice balance.

The beer was a little out of my comfort zone of brewing so I'm sure I'll be better for it next attempt.

Nah I don't think brett is the bread yest character. I like a bit of brett but I'm only really familiar with brett C.

Soz, I hated giving something a negative review . Especially when I'm a noob and don't know what reviews of mine will be like .

 

[pcqypcqy]

# 17 Robust Porter - Drink whenever. A bit of age shouldn't hurt it, but it should be nice now.

It was done in a kegmenter and transferred into corny's via gas and then purged bottles via a carb cap, so it should last a fair while in the bottle.

Didn't want to brag, but this is very close to the beer that got me 1st at QABC for porter's, so really keen to get feedback from the other guys with porters that weren't submitted, because I reckon Peege's would have been up there too if you'd put it in the comp mate.

Happy to share a recipe if people want.

 

[Ciderman]

Nah I don't think brett is the bread yest character. I like a bit of brett but I'm only really familiar with brett C.

Soz, I hated giving something a negative review . Especially when I'm a noob and don't know what reviews of mine will be like .

All good, better to be honest! I had a hunch it would divide the crowd, the sour beers usually do.