The Craft Beer Thread

Had a very chilled day...nothing major on the festivities front. Tomorrow is a big day with lost of family and braaing and cooking...

Enjoyed the amazing collab between Afro Caribbean and Super Owl Brewing in California, during some snacks this afternoon.

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Need some help guys. Fools and fans festival is in April and they have a Homebrew club comp. The idea is that the club brews a beer together and submits it. The style we are asked to brew is an English ipa and I am hoping we can taste the best examples in the country to see what is a good baseline…. Before the second week of January…. Anyone have any suggestions, and specifically ones we can get before then…
 
SukkaFoo said:
Need some help guys. Fools and fans festival is in April and they have a Homebrew club comp. The idea is that the club brews a beer together and submits it. The style we are asked to brew is an English ipa and I am hoping we can taste the best examples in the country to see what is a good baseline…. Before the second week of January…. Anyone have any suggestions, and specifically ones we can get before then…
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Good to see you planned well and started your research in time....
 
MightyQuin said:
Good to see you planned well and started your research in time....
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Organizers of the event only announced the style yesterday… its a bunch of home brewers, worst case we just brew it based upon the style guidelines
 
SukkaFoo said:
Organizers of the event only announced the style yesterday… its a bunch of home brewers, worst case we just brew it based upon the style guidelines
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Mountain brewing company
red bridge brewing
Folk & Goode

They do the best examples of english IPA for me.

If you want a traditional/historic version of an english IPA. Soul barrel brewery did a bretted english IPA, could be tricky to find and you will need a few months for the brett to do its thing.

Good luck its one of my favorite styles.

Its not a very difficult style, a whole bunch of maris otter, some medium crystal, solid bittering addition, ekg close to flame out and a dry hop of ekg aiming for 50IBU (you will need it to combat the sweet esters of the yeast and the maris otter). Yeast you can use notty, s-04 but I like using verdant IPA as I like the esters and attentaution.

Stay away from any traditinal dry english yeast windsor or london. They dont ferment maltriose so your fg will be really high unless you use some sugar to dry it out.
 
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Jitters said:
Mountain brewing company
red bridge brewing
Folk & Goode

They do the best examples of english IPA for me.

If you want a traditional/historic version of an english IPA. Soul barrel brewery did a bretted english IPA, could be tricky to find and you will need a few months for the brett to do its thing.

Good luck its one of my favorite styles.

Its not a very difficult style, a whole bunch of maris otter, some medium crystal, solid bittering addition, ekg close to flame out and a dry hop of ekg aiming for 50IBU (you will need it to combat the sweet esters of the yeast and the maris otter). Yeast you can use notty, s-04 but I like using verdant IPA as I like the esters and attentaution.

Stay away from any traditinal dry english yeast windsor or london. They dont ferment maltriose so your fg will be really high unless you use some sugar to dry it out.
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Shot that's super helpful
 
Just started working through my tiny keg box started with the nitro white stout.

I noted no widget and it said shake hard pout hard curious if it is indeed nitro or not.

First white stout I have ever had pretty decent - open it over a sink it does not explode it does spray a bit.

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Snyper564 said:
Just started working through my tiny keg box started with the nitro white stout.

I noted no widget and it said shake hard pout hard curious if it is indeed nitro or not.

First white stout I have ever had pretty decent - open it over a sink it does not explode it does spray a bit.

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I hated it tbh....it had a very weird taste and no redeeming qualities for me I am sorry to say.

Tasted it and poured it down the sink.
 
MightyQuin said:
I hated it tbh....it had a very weird taste and no redeeming qualities for me I am sorry to say.

Tasted it and poured it down the sink.
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Wonder if it was different accross the batch (infected/who knows) ... Mine was not mind-blowing but it wasn't bad. I have poured beer down the drain before but this was definitely not that level. That's why I'm wondering if something impacted yours.
 
Snyper564 said:
Wonder if it was different accross the batch (infected/who knows) ... Mine was not mind-blowing but it wasn't bad. I have poured beer down the drain before but this was definitely not that level. That's why I'm wondering if something impacted yours.
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I also kinda enjoyed mine, it was weird in it's own way, but not in a stout way.

Could it be that @MightyQuin expected a stout like brew but what he got was most definitely not a stout. kinda when your expectation is something and your disappointed when reality is something different. I don't know how to word it well but I hope you get my point

Personally I think a white stout is shitty marketing for something that is no shape or form even close to a stout, they should just call it a nitro blonde or kolsch.

Infection is also a very big possibility as you say. I agree that this was not close to a drain pour for me.
 
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Sitting in Tulbagh on a farm tasting these

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Had the hazy ipa. As most of you know not my favorite style but as iPas go it was ok. Only have a handful of them I really enjoy but that's a me thing.

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I've enjoyed all the IPAs and the Sorghum Weiss. The sour IPA .. battled to finish that one. The others have nice character to them. Having the stout later tonight
 
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