[Sam]

It was a great experience! I enjoyed meeting people. 🙂

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[Sam]

Thanks for the video. Watching the yeast churn is still fascinating for me.

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[Sam]

I don’t plan to go to GABF, but I’m an AHA member so I could help purchase tickets. Sounds like I/we would just purchase X number of tickets on the member-only pre-sale to supply to the club/group. Right?

Found this: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/news/access-the-2019-great-american-beer-festival-member-presale/

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[Sam]

Looks good! I like Alt beers.

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Jim and Evan,
Thanks for the comments and tasting notes. I like Jim’s ratings also. My goal is to brew at least an 8!

I agree that a common vocabulary is important. Thanks for the list; it will be a good place to start associating words with impressions. I’ve also purchased Randy Mosher’s 2nd Ed to see if it helps me learn to describe what I sense.

I’ve done a couple off flavor tastings. They were informative, but those flavors were so strong they were mostly overwhelming. I can’t identify any beer I’ve had that had so obvious flaws, so I’m not sure I can detect subtle flaws.

I also enjoy tasting grains to help decide what to select. I love smelling hops, but I don’t always smell the same characters in raw hops that appear in finished beer. I plan to start making some hop teas just to sample.

As I’ve started all grain, I try to keep the grain bill to 2 or 3 grains and then decide how I might want the flavor/aroma to change, and then change one grain, hop, or yeast to experience the result. It would be fun to get a couple 3g carboys/fermentors to do side-by-side yeast comparison. More stuff to do.

One of my primary interests in joining OTMP is to discuss the beers at the meetings to see how others describe what we are sampling. I know we all have differences in taste and smell sensitivities so there is always that to consider. And I hope that others will be honest if they detect something in my beers that isn’t quite right to help me better identify it in the future.

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colterw wrote:

Nice was it still working today? I bought it yesterday.

Not sure. I’m full up on grains right now, so I didn’t check. I know, I know… Always room for more base malt… HA!

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That is a good price! $40 for 55lb! Thanks.

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evan.sherlock wrote:

Tasting notes can also do the same for you but on the other end. Are you confident in your perceptions of your beer and your ability to taste the ingredients one by one in the beer?

Evan, are there aids/guides to help learn identify ingredients by taste? I would like to better identify flavors and aromas in beers. I enjoy the iterative process of making a beer and (attempting to only) change one thing to see how the beer changes, but it would help to shorten the possibly years long learning curve by knowing how to evaluate a beer.

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[Sam]

I kegged up my simple Cream Ale last Saturday, June 1. I sampled it on Monday, June 4, and thought this could be a great lawn mower ale; light, easy drinking, nice carbonation. Then Monday night my keg decided to empty itself into the bottom of my keezer. 🙁 And it emptied my CO2 cylinder. 🙁

Guess I get to make it again!

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I plan to brew up a cream ale this weekend. Simple pilsner/flaked corn grain bill. Going to use Loral and Crystal for hops.

I did a bastardized Amber Kellerbier last weekend. And early June should see an IPA brewed up.

I’m also a little low on consumables in my keezer.

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Spauld wrote:

Looking forward to sipping a half liter of that Bob

You missed it on Wednesday. It was quite good. Too bad we drank it all! 🙂

Sam

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Good to hear that El Dorado and Amarillo work well together. I’ve used both separately, and it seemed likely the pairing would work.

I’ve dry hopped/keg hopped an IPA with Medusa, and I really liked it. Nice fruit aromas and flavor.

I think all those will work well. I just want to do something different that the typical Mosaic/Citra/Cascade mix.

All those hops will be late additions at flameout and then keg hopping. I will probably use Magnum as a generic bittering hop.

Sam

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