Camera should be disbanded for the sake of beer

Real quick,

CAMRA should be labeled a terrorist organisation to the beer world.  Tired of old men with bad beards talking shit about good beer and small independent breweries.  Yet, they keep drinking our "shit beer" day after day.  I am guessing, when they die that there is a big pub in the sky that has a thousand hand pumps with nothing but Woodfordes Wherry.  Nothing against the beer but if thats what you want, then go get it.

Later,

Pissy beer drinker, Tim

Beer sharing

So one thing we do here in the small beer lovers group that is The Cannon and other beer drinkers is do a bit of sharing.  I was able to find some good American beers from California such as Port Brewing and the Bruery.  Most people think of American beer as Bud, Miller and Coors but soon find out this is not the case.  Funny thing is, most English people drink shit beer, too such as Carling and Stella but for some reason think it is good stuff.  Most of them don't know that Carling found its roots in Canada and due to some marketing genius, they started drinking it in masses.

So I took a bottle of The Bruery's Saison Rue up to Beautiful Beers to share with Rene, the owner.  We found it to be a fairly solid beer brewed in the Belgium Farmhouse style.  Lots of character and a nice, dry finish.  I see me buying more of it sometime in the future.

Later

Tim

It's a stout, not a porter.

So after two weeks in the fermenter, and eight days since I bottled it, I now have a completely functional and decent tasting stout. I opened one last night but it didn't seal right and was more of a chocolate wine liquor, in other words it was turning into chocolate vinegar. So tonight, I opened a correctly sealed bottle of which turned out nice. It has a sweet taste typical of English stouts, low hop flavour and is full bodied. I look to try another one in a week and then hand some out. I think it will condition well over the next several months if I can put some off to the side and forget about it until St. Patrick's Day.

Later,

Tim

Porter on the way

Sorry for the delay in big time brewing news!

Alright, so I brewed a black as night porter a couple of weeks ago and it is almost time to bottle that thing.  I will be doing so, later this week and fingers crossed, it will be a good holiday cheer sort of beer.  I will be dry hopping a mini cask of it with some Willamette (maybe some Nelson Savign) for an experiment.  Either way, it will be around 6.3% and if the smell it was giving off is any indication, then I may be a little happy.  I received good post brew feedback from the professional side (Joe and Molly) so like I said, hopefully all will be good.  Stay tuned for further brewing news.

Later,

Tim