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I'm currently drinking the best home brew that I have ever made

Its a Russian Imperial Stout, the recipe was from Northern brewer and I've aged it about 5 months

Its rich, creamy and has a great coffee note to it. What surprises me is how such a rich beer can so easily slide off my pallet and make me ready for the next drink. Is that what the brewcasters mean by balance??

I'm not kidding when I say this is the best beer I have brewed to date.

At 8.9% ABV with a staring gravity of 1.094, this is the biggest beer I have ever made and what a great beer it is!!!



OMG

I love it when I have created a recipe that equals or surpasses what I can purchase locally. For me, that is the whole point of this hobby. Those kegs are the fastest to run dry. Congrats!

bcmaui wrote:Those kegs are the fastest to run dry.

your telling me!

You know how hard it was to age this thing for 5 months??

I had to act like it didn't exist!!

"What's in that keg?" "What keg? I don't see any keg. Must be my starsan solution"

it was hard!


Thanks!

Haha!

My inventory of batches like those always drops quickly until those last couple pints where I begin to regret drinking it all so fast and can't possibly stand running out. Those last couple pints last almost as long as the first half of the batch!

There's a pretty good brew pub around here (Pearl Street Brewery), but fuck me if I don't feel the same way every time I have their stout.

We have 8 "basic" beers we do on regular rotation, and our stout kicks their ass so much it's not funny.