Official Alcohol Discussion Thread!

[DaMexiRican]

Can we get a sticky for this?

What do ya'll prefer to drink? Beer, Wine, Hard Liquor, Wine Coolers? All of them?

I only drink Beer and Hard Liquor. Mint Mojito is about the only thing close to a wine cooler I'll drink though LOL

 

[splax23]

You don't need the allgrain setup to make a barley wine - You can take like 4 or 5 pounds of maris otter and 2 pounds of munich malt, maybe 4 oz of crystal 70L and mini-mash it in a bag in a pot of water.. let's see ... 7 pounds of grain would need 8.75 quarts of water so about 2.19 gallons of water mash at 155 for 60 minutes.. sparge with roughly 2 gallons of water at 170 - You should be at around 3 gallons of water after accounting for some absorbtion by the grain.. boil and add ~9lbs of dry malt extract and boiling for 60 minutes with a rigorous hop schedule like an addition every 15 minutes with the biggest addition at the beginning of course. If you can do a full boil I would add water to take it up to 7.5 gallons and boil it down to 5 gallons to get better hop utilization. Might end up being a 90 minute boil.

crank that sumbeyotch to like 80 IBUs . Galena I would use for bittering.. maybe 2-4 ounces, Cascade 2-4 ounces, and then I'd use some kind of noble hop for flavor/aromas - I wouldn't dry hop.


That's my thoughts on barleywine. ferment for about 3 weeks, rack to secondary, ferment for another month and then bottle. Hide every single one of them somewhere in a safe place.. I'd put them in a rubbermaid and hide them in our utility room buried under crap so I can forget I made it.

It is a long wait I have until Feb 2010 to wait. Oh well it will be delicious when its done

 

[splax23]

bought me some more Goose Island Bourbon County Stout yesterday. That stuff is simply amazing. I can't wait to drink some. Any of you guys age anything in a bourbon barrel? My cousin has done it before. He had a Stout that was aged like that and it was awesome. It would be nice to get some people together and try it.

 

[Horhay]

I never had that.

 

[MacDaddyOJack]

If you can do a full boil I would add water to take it up to 7.5 gallons and boil it down to 5 gallons to get better hop utilization. Might end up being a 90 minute boil.

crank that sumbeyotch to like 80 IBUs . Galena I would use for bittering.. maybe 2-4 ounces, Cascade 2-4 ounces, and then I'd use some kind of noble hop for flavor/aromas - I wouldn't dry hop.


That's my thoughts on barleywine. ferment for about 3 weeks, rack to secondary, ferment for another month and then bottle. Hide every single one of them somewhere in a safe place.. I'd put them in a rubbermaid and hide them in our utility room buried under crap so I can forget I made it.

That's probably my second biggest problem.... I can't boil that much at one time And, I really don't want to wait that freakin long... I think I'll stick to buying the barleywines for a while longer! Brooklyn has a pretty good one called Monster that comes out every winter

 

[MacDaddyOJack]

bought me some more Goose Island Bourbon County Stout yesterday. That stuff is simply amazing. I can't wait to drink some. Any of you guys age anything in a bourbon barrel? My cousin has done it before. He had a Stout that was aged like that and it was awesome. It would be nice to get some people together and try it.

I've had that stuff, it's pretty good. It's gets a little sweet for my liking by the bottom of the bottle though - and two is pretty much out of the question! I really want to try to age in some bourbon barrels though, especially for a stout.

 

[Illiciter]

bought me some more Goose Island Bourbon County Stout yesterday. That stuff is simply amazing. I can't wait to drink some. Any of you guys age anything in a bourbon barrel? My cousin has done it before. He had a Stout that was aged like that and it was awesome. It would be nice to get some people together and try it.

My cousin soaks oak chips in bourbon.. does that count?

lol


I don't have any barrels to age in.. I've thought of soaking some wood in spirits and adding it, however, but I like my stout, it does well.

btw the packing material arrived.. looks like the bottle shapes work best if they're shaped like sierra nevada bottles. The short neck "stubby" ones.

Darn, like I needed an excuse to buy a couple sixers of pale ale.

I'll let you know when I'm ready to ship!

 

[splax23]

That Goose Island just has that yummy bourbon taste to it thats why it is so awesome.

But my cousin actually drove down to kentucky and picked up his bourbon barrels which would be a pretty fun road trip.

and as for the bottles thats how Founders bottles are. but they are those damn twist offs. seriously who uses those

 

[Illiciter]

That Goose Island just has that yummy bourbon taste to it thats why it is so awesome.

But my cousin actually drove down to kentucky and picked up his bourbon barrels which would be a pretty fun road trip.

and as for the bottles thats how Founders bottles are. but they are those damn twist offs. seriously who uses those

Commercial-like breweries, just to irritate us homebrewers....

 

[halon]

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[Illiciter]

Memorial Weekend Kill Count

2 12 packs of budmillercoors
1 12 pack of boulevard pale ale
3 bottles of homemade irish red
1 bottle of apfelwein


an exact 40 bottles o brew over 3 days.


Not a record, but I was also on the roof of the cabin one of those days shlackin' tar around the chimney and across a row of shingles.

I live to drink another beer!

 

[DaMexiRican]

Went to SF yesterday n ate at joes crab shack. Happy hour when we went so I had to jump on it LOL. Had some steam boat anchor beers. Not too bad

 

[BigRick]

I hate Joes Crab Shack lol

 

[Horhay]

I was messed up all weekend lol we killed 11 24 packs of beer and approximately around 19 bottles of different liquor which include jagger, tequila, vodka, gin to name a few....man I was messed up

 

[BigRick]

I was messed up all weekend lol we killed 11 24 packs of beer and approximately around 19 bottles of different liquor which include jagger, tequila, vodka, gin to name a few....man I was messed up

 

[Horhay]

I woke up drunk lol even menudo didn't quite do the job this time

 

[BigRick]

Yeah ive had those lol. Hey did you get my txt sat morning??

 

[Horhay]

I don't remember lol. Maybe I'll check it in a bit.

 

[Dark Elf]

This is love!

 

[Horhay]

This is love!

Hmm I am interested, I wonder where can I find that. I had some Leblon and Oronoco this past weekend and they were good

 

[Illiciter]

What? Do you mix that RC cola or something? :eek:




Pretty sure the "real" havana club is illegal in the U.S. thanks to the cuban embargo - bacardi makes it in puerto rico and brands it havana club


I like me some rum.