clone63 said:In our local paper, quoting the brewer.. "Farmhouse is essentially a farmer's beer. It's modeled after the classic Belgian Saison style ale"
croakerj said:It's usually best to have your SAISON smell like animal inerds and taste like manure because that is farm.
I know it sounds amusing,but saisons are said to smell like barnyard a$$. And I wanna drink this why??
It's usually best to have your SAISON smell like animal inerds and taste like manure because that is farm.
So I DIDN'T screw up my Saison! Those AREN'T off flavors! My beer is SUPPOSED to taste like ****. Whew! For a minute there I thought I'd done something wrong.
ardyexfor said:I was at Rogue recently for one of their garage sales. Awesome deals available to be had btw. There was a guy whom I can only assume must have been a volunteer pouring samples for the different beers that were for sale.
At a homebrew shop I only frequent out of necessity:
Me- And I'll take two packets of US-05 please
Them- the wet or the dry?
Me- the dry, thanks
At a homebrew shop I only frequent out of necessity:
Me- And I'll take two packets of US-05 please
Them- the wet or the dry?
Me- the dry, thanks
mattd2 said:You should have asked for the wet and seen what happened
The walls were covered in 1960s and '70s paraphernalia of Hamms, Schlitz, Grain Belt, PBR, Old Milwaukee, etc.
I was visiting family in South Dakota a couple weekends ago, and we all went out for lunch at this restaurant/bar that had some kind of "retro beer" theme. The walls were covered in 1960s and '70s paraphernalia of Hamms, Schlitz, Grain Belt, PBR, Old Milwaukee, etc., and had a number of those throwback beers on tap. It was like a little trip back to 1970.
When the waitress took our order, I asked if they had any micros on tap.
(The nostalgia of those cheap beers I drank in high school didn't exactly appeal to me.)
She replied, rather indignantly, that "that whole microbrew thing is going out of style and 'classic beers' are now in." I thought I was going to fall out of my seat laughing.
Um, yeah, your retrobrew fad was all the rage for a little while back in about 2009.
BTW, they did have Boulevard unfiltered wheat on tap. That worked in a pinch. And the food wasn't half bad, so it wasn't a complete wash.
Grain Belt... *shudder*. My first beer. A friends dad had a bar in the basement, and one day after school we took our badass fourth-grade selves down there and split a can. I didn't touch beer again until I was in college!
Guess I was just an alky, first one at 9 and dad had to lock them up till I was in my teens. He gave me my first but in his defense he was expecting me to do the same as you.
Grandpa occasionally asks how my brewing is going. We have a little conversation but he does not want a taste of my brews.
He tells me stories of when he was a kid (grandpa is 89) his father used to ferment beer in the attic of the house. Hot sticky Indiana weather an attic can get well in to the 120's or in the winter below freezing with poor insulation. WHAT KIND OF YEAST DID HE USE!! It perplexes me. His dad was dutch..but the community is french immigrants.
I need to ask more questions..I want that recipe.
I guess this should be in confusing things you have heard about beer.
When grandpa used to drink it was Hamm's
Grandpa occasionally asks how my brewing is going. We have a little conversation but he does not want a taste of my brews.
He tells me stories of when he was a kid (grandpa is 89) his father used to ferment beer in the attic of the house. Hot sticky Indiana weather an attic can get well in to the 120's or in the winter below freezing with poor insulation. WHAT KIND OF YEAST DID HE USE!! It perplexes me. His dad was dutch..but the community is french immigrants.
I need to ask more questions..I want that recipe.
I guess this should be in confusing things you have heard about beer.
When grandpa used to drink it was Hamm's
[Grandpa] tells me stories of when he was a kid (grandpa is 89) his father used to ferment beer in the attic of the house. Hot sticky Indiana weather an attic can get well in to the 120's or in the winter below freezing with poor insulation. WHAT KIND OF YEAST DID HE USE!! It perplexes me.
I guess this should be in confusing things you have heard about beer.
Revisiting the beer classification portion of this thread. This is the beer menu from The Twisted Kilt a Irish type bar that is more Hooters then Irish but they have a decent selection on tap. How many errors can you spot on the menu?
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Wow... whoever wrote that should be fired. Actually, they should be ruthlessly flogged first, then fired.
Even my yeast are offended, and they can't read.
Revisiting the beer classification portion of this thread. This is the beer menu from The Twisted Kilt a Irish type bar that is more Hooters then Irish but they have a decent selection on tap. How many errors can you spot on the menu?
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