/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10919335
>out here on the West Coast
Thread hidden.

>>10919344
*West Coast USA, not Australia.

Sorry for any confusion.

>>10919335
boba tea

>>10919507
Nah we know which coast you're talking about. Thread hidden

>west coast
>IPA

pottery

>>10919335
East Coast. Guinness Extra Stout.

>>10919335
this isn't instagram you faggot, take your hippie beer cuck report somewhere else

>>10919934
The West Coast makes the best IPA's, and was the OG IPA producer of the American beer renaissance . Are you just making this connection? That's pretty embarrassing.

>>10919950
>east coast

There are like 6 distinct regions of the East Coast, and only in 4 of them would Guinness be acceptable.

>>10920520
CT near the mass border

>>10920113
>The West Coast makes the best IPA's

What's a good beer for anyone who's past 30?

I'm balding too, so nothing too hoppy please.

>>10920938
Yuengling, the boomer beer

>>10920938
Monster Absolute Zero

>>10920938

going to prague in a few weeks and will be doing my best to explore their pubs and bars.

anyone know anything about czech beer? I know pilsners originally czech but that's about the limit of my wisdom

>>10919335
This is the only acceptable IPA.

>>10919335
Steel Reserve

Just fuck my shit up

>>10922055
Pilsner Urquel when fresh is arguably the best lager in the world so start with that.

Sure do love getting crunk, fellow beer enthusiasts

>>10922279
thing is I was raised on shitty pilsners, and as an adult have an adversity to anything paler than an amber ale

>>10919335
Woe is the man who cannot taste this ambrosia

I'm drinking straight vodka

this has been my goto since college.
its...black...as...my.... soul! *shids and fards same time*

>>10922904
Based and redpilled

>>10922693
Too sweet. Pretty underwhelmed.

>>10919335
R8 my beer in fermentation currently
>6 lbs two row malt
>4 lbs caramunich
>dash of roasted barley
>.5 oz palisade whole cone hop and .5 oz mosaic hop boil
>10 min boil of 1 oz mosaic
>5 min boil of 1oz mosaic
>Fermenting on hops @ 55°F for ≈ 2 1 weeks
>Will diacetyl burn for 24 hours
>Rack and lager at ≈ 38-40°F for at least one week
>Rack in keg and let it continue to lager as long as I can stand

>>10921774
Fuck that Budweiser shit

>>10923470
It's much better on tap than out of a bottle. Probably one of the best Summer drinking beers you could be lucky enough to find on tap if you're out somewhere for lunch.

>>10922151
Bell's is pretty average tier. Never understood why Midwesterners think it's the best thing ever, aside from just being untraveled flyovers.

DRINKING THE BEST FUCKING BEER I CAN GET.

Zero time Lurker first time poster. LOOK MOTHERFUCKERS why doesn't 4chan have a dedicated board to the best fucking beverage ever? We need a dedicated beer board.

Just brewed a french style saison dry hopped with mosaic hops and that shit is good. A bit too malty but probably gonna find a lighter grain and add more hops next time.

Fuck dark beers. Pale malt 4 lyfe.

>>10919950
Same here.
I'm brewing a strong stout tomorrow for the first time and I'm nervous. I've already got a starter going. I've oddly drank nothing but stouts and porters all summer.

>>10924674
Good for you, I like mosaic hops too. I posted my recent one here>>10923056
What yeast did you use?
>>10924713
What method do you use to start your yeast starter?

>>10924736
Easy, I use canned wort, mixed with the yeast in a flask and swirled. Wait 20 hours and brew. I like this method and want to get a stir-plate for bigger cell counts.

>>10924773
Interesting you order it online? Does it come with lager strains?

>>10922055
Their dark lagers are phenomenal

>>10924824
I'm using California Ale (White Labs). I think Lagers need a stronger starter the higher the starting gravity is going to be.

>>10924475
It's the standard I base traditional ipas on. It's not the best ever, but its damn good. Like SN pale ale

>>10920113
>The West Coast makes the best IPA's,

>>10924887
Lagers are a strain that prefers colder temps and likes to ferment at the bottom of the liquid as opposed to the top. Not stronger, necessarily, just different. There's some more modern strains used by macro breweries that are much more versatile and perform fairly well in both lager and ale recipes.

>>10925483
due to colder fermentation temps etc. you need to almost double the size of your pitch for a lager.

>>10924887
Kek. I used to use Malta Goya.

>>10922151
that's not pic related...

just kidding I guess. Lots of IPAs are fine. Most of them are just kind of same-ish...

>>10925917
okay so I'm seeing some sources calling this an "American pale ale"...others calling it an "American IPA"...yeah I don't know...I just like it better because there is some malty goodness in there and not just citrus and soap

>>10919335
For me? Well...

>>10925937
shit taste

>>10925931
American pale ale and American ipa are pretty much interchangeable terms

>>10926065
No, they definitely are not. Do you also think an IPA is the same as a Double IPA? Or a Triple IPA? Or a Quad?

Sure, there are some IPAs which are closer to to Pale Ales, and some Doubles that are closer to Triples, but generally they are all very distinct.

>>10926209
Explain the difference between an apa and an IPA please.

>>10926229
IPAs have a much higher hop to malt ratio.

>>10926235
Does that make the midwest style of IPA not an ipa then?

>>10926240
There is no "midwest style of IPA".

>>10926244
You're retarded

>>10926248
he's right, IPAs are a strictly British invention

>>10922966
Cringe and bluepilled

>>10926254
American IPAs are a California invention. Later New England created their own distinct style. Midwest IPAs are pretty much just generic not-sure-if-british-or-american sheltered flyover type stuff. Not bad, but not a distinct style by any means.

>>10926259
The midwest ipa has a distinctly balanced characteristic while focusing on specific hop strains. The east coast picked that up and modified it. The west coast stayed in 2007 for way too long and is irrelevant apart from maybe 3 breweries

>>10926278
You're retarded

>>10926289
he's right, IPAs are a strictly British invention

>>10926291
>Brits invent it
>americans perfect it
Pretty standard

>>10926386
You're retarded

>>10926248
>>10926289
>>10926391
based

>>10926391
You're retarded

>>10926397
he's right, IPAs are a strictly British invention

My wife got me a beginner's beer brewing kit for my birthday, I'm getting started with it on Friday. What do I need to know going forward?

what's the best japanese beer? hitachino nest?

>>10922939
Go for Oskar Blues' Ten Fidy, my dude.

Who else here hates amarillo? It's way too dank for me.

>>10926734
As far as Japanese brewers go, I prefer Bairds stuff. I can't remember what my favorite was from their range, I wish I could even get it locally in Australia

>>10926734
asahi super dry is my jam

>>10919335
For me it's Krombacher or Kronen Pils.
But i wouldn't mind a guiness sometimes.

I like the hazy juice bombs. I wish they were more carbonated, though. It's hard to find a true hazy juice bomb around here on the west coast. I went to Alpine Beer Company's tasting room, asked if they had any hazy northeast-style IPA, and the guy told me "we don't put that flowery shit in our beer". Mikkeller had me covered, though. That's the best brewery I've visited.

Pic related was my first juice bomb experience. It smelled like a tropical smoothie and tasted like an IPA with pineapple juice.

>>10926884
Auburn, CA

>>10926884
>we don't put that flower shit in our beer
based and redpilled

>>10919335

>>10926884
>>10927072
I fucking hate the NE style craze right now, but Moonraker is legit good (and was doing it before it became a fad).

Red ale tho

>>10919335
My house used to have Hangar 24 as our go to but I've been gravitating towards Sierra Nevada Brewing Company ever since my opinion on pale ales and IPA's softened (used to hate them now I'm alright with them).

>>10922939
>MFW I just opened my fridge and realized I still had one bottle left that I forgot about

>>10928089
Pugachev's Cobra is the only thing from Hangar 24 that really stood out to me.

>>10926742
based

Northern Monk X Wylam TIPA
La debauche-mango rising mango and tabasco sour
Popihn-Passion fruit and guava sour

>>10922292
>keystone
Dude, if you're gonna go all the way to the bottom you may as well just get rolling rock or kirklands...

>>10922292
First beer I ever drank, I was 3 I didn't know any better

>find a good IPA

>”canned on 4/16/2018

:(

stop talking about IPAs you fucking hipsters

>>10929190
I don't drink IPAs. What's the problem here?

>>10929218
Freshness. Some IPAs go “stale” so to speak after a month. They get less flavorful. After 2 months the original taste is an afterthought, relatively muted

It’s like fruit in reverse. I suppose it depends the temperature conditions as well

>>10929232
Pic related was one of the best beers I've ever had because it was extremely fresh. It smelled like a peach explosion.

What happened to the alcoholics thread? I think i'm degenerating into drinking these all the time.

>>10922151
This 100%. Can't wait going to Bells tomorrow.

>>10919952

>>10925946
Yes, whatever the fuck you posted is shit. What's your point?

>>10929595
Does california not do fresh hop stuff a lot? This is honestly the only fresh hop beer I've seen from cali posted here

>>10929842
>>10929842
bells has a pretty solid beer list in their main taproom, and a great biergarten. arcadia down the street is also pretty nice.

>>10930090
Sierra Nevada does a northern and southern hemisphere hop harvest with fresh hops.

>>10930510
Ooooh yeah. I havent had that in years

>>10930090
The OP is a fresh hopped IPA.

>>10928105
Eat shit.

The little lady has been making kombucha which has been nice! So far basil + blackberry seems to be the most interesting flavor profile.

Anybody try any of the GoT beers? Had this one sitting around for awhile now.

>>10922151
>only one middle of the road beer of this entire style is acceptable

Why are you even in the beer thread?

>>10932965
there are other beers than your shitty hipster IPAs yknow?

>>10932975
Dismissing an entire style except for one particular beer that isn't anything special just makes it seem like you haven't tried very much.

Picked up two porters at the supermarket today, having the Okocim Porter right now, has a lot of really pleasant coffee chocolatey flavours like a nice stout

>>10933160
Just opened up the Lvivske Porter and it's definitely not as good as the Okocim very much a basic bitch porter that is pretty much a more alcoholic Guiness

>>10932592
I enjoyed that one. Good take on a witbier.

Drinking a Gipsy brewing Brut IPA (it was shite) and a boon millesime 2014 gueuze which I'm expecting great things from

>>10933499
>puts a random ass roastie on the can

>>10933499
>live in norcal
>never heard of gipsy hill

Wow, never would have guessed from the can that it's a London brewery. I thought moving towards cans was only really an American thing.

>>10933619
The beer is as shite as the can
>>10933643
I didn't know where it came from I live in France

>>10933160
I tried Zywiec's porter, it was pretty good. Check it out if you haven't already

>>10933643
All of the best euro brewers are going full can, Northern monk, Cloudwater, North brewing etc

why cans though?

>>10933760
Żywiec Porter is alright, enjoyable, but not the best, still pretty good though I do recommend the Okocim Porter if it's available where you are

Are there any american made alternatives to Bacardi Superior that are similar?

Spend a lot of money on it so I figure I might as well spend it on domestic goods if possible.

>>10933444
>>10933160
Corporate interests have been consolidating the Baltic brewers and slowly pushing the style to extinction.

>>10934032
You know bacardi is made in the us right....

>>10933923
answer me

>>10934052
Because they don't let any light in, and are cheaper to produce and ship. They're superior to bottles in every way.

>>10934073
aren't they flatter though?

>>10934083
Maybe if you're storing them for years, but beers meant for cellaring come in bottles.

>>10934048
>You know bacardi is made in the us right....
No, I didn't.
I saw "PUERTO RICAN RUM" on the label and just assumed it was an import.

>>10934089
I thought they couldn't make them with as much CO2 as in bottles cause the can would burst?

>>10924713
Update: brewed last night. Took a sample and got a SG of 1.09! I added some water to bring the batch up to about 4.8 gallons so I'm estimating the SG as 1.85.
Thankfully not even 24 hours later my airlock is really starting to chug. Here's hoping I pitched enough yeast for it to attenuate fully..
Drinking this local IPA. They make a good dunkel as well.

>>10926702
Make sure you have cleaner and sanitizer. Clean and sanitize everything that the beer touches post-boil, your fermenter lid and airlock, and later bottles caps and siphoning equipment.
Clean before you sanitize. You can't sanitize something dirty. I recommend PBW powder to clean and Starsan to sanitize. Starsan is a no-rinse product which means you just spray and let air dry.
I'm assuming you have a recipe and kit and that it's extract. Just follow the recipe and you'll be fine. Make sure you use a thermometer to keep track of how hot your boil water is. Don't forget to pitch your yeast (common first mistake) and wait until the wort has cooled to 70-75 or at least 80 degrees. Make sure you stir (aerate the wort after cooling but before pitching.
Make sure the beer ferments at the proper temp. Research whatever yeast you are using to find out what temps it likes, though most of the time you can just keep it at 72 and it will be fine.

>>10934157
>starsan

Embrace the foam.