[ethalacker]

Just got through brewing a chocolate porter!

[James Lorden]

It's time for our club's annual 24 hours of brewing and camping this weekend.  I'll be making a key lime melomel and cold smoking some malt or some cheese or some meet on Saturday.

I bet that would taste great with a little touch of Sarachi Hop.  I recently had a pale ale made with lime and sarachi that was awesome!

Maybe when it's finished I can blend some sort of Sarachi hop beer into it and have an interesting braggot.  I'll bet a saison would go well.....

Never really made mead before.  Would you ever dry hop with something like Sarachi?

[denny]

The weather and my schedule are finally cooperating so that I can make my first lager of the season, a German pils.

[blatz]

Never really made mead before.  Would you ever dry hop with something like Sarachi?

you would not use hops in straight mead - honey's expensive why cover it up! 

but you would in a braggot (which is mead/beer hybrid) which is what jeffy was talking about.

I personally would never use Sorachi Ace in anything, but that's personal taste.

[jeffy]

Never really made mead before.  Would you ever dry hop with something like Sarachi?

you would not use hops in straight mead - honey's expensive why cover it up! 

but you would in a braggot (which is mead/beer hybrid) which is what jeffy was talking about.

I personally would never use Sorachi Ace in anything, but that's personal taste.

I really like it in Brooklyn's Saison.  That's what I was thinking about.  A blend of a beer like that with the key lime mead sounds nice.

[James Lorden]

I liked it in a wheat beer that I recently had... I will say, it's different - but I liked it!  Anything that would taste good with a lemony flavor I think would do well with a little sarachi.

[blatz]

I really like it in Brooklyn's Saison.  That's what I was thinking about.  A blend of a beer like that with the key lime mead sounds nice.

I think I've seen you and a few others mention that one, so perhaps I will seek it out - I remember when that hop hit the homebrewer venues and I tried a lot of beers heavy with SA and I didn't care for them, maybe the saison expresses it in the right light (as opposed to Sapporo   ).  

[blatz]

sarachi.

sorachi ace.

http://www.hopsdirect.com/hops/leafhops.html

[oscarvan]

OK, I got a headstart on the weekend.....

Today whipped up another batch of APA, and a Belgian IPA. My buddy brewed his first batch here at Wooden Shoe Breweries and made a Leffe like blonde.....

The keg on tap kicked..... after a week..... I will have to fine tune my pipeline.....

[oscarvan]

And we have bubbelage.......

Gurgle symphony in yeast for three fermenters......

[tygo]

The keg on tap kicked..... after a week..... I will have to fine tune my pipeline.....

That's impressive.  Sounds like you're on the right track with the pipeline.

[oscarvan]

Growler to a party.....brew day with a few visitors, friends over for dinner..... there you have it, there you don't.

[brontotex]

Brewing my take on Harvard Crimson and racking an IPA.

[jaybeerman]

just finished a brown ale, 3 gallons will become flanders brown and 2.5 gallons will become holiday spice brown.  I'm tired but everything is clean and I'm drinking a homebrewed IPA.

[tschmidlin]

BJCP Exam tasting retake.