Rob Courtney Posted August 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2023 On 24/08/2023 at 7:59 PM, Rob Courtney said: Hops in last night, will bottle Saturday ( hangover permitted) Hangover there was but the Balls has been bottled 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thagomizer Posted September 1, 2023 Report Share Posted September 1, 2023 Bottled and kegged mine yesterday. Initial taste was very good. FG was 1.009. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted September 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2023 Now, I don't want to go too hard, too early here but seriously, it is a dead set disgrace that this isn't a brewprint...and once again, this is me holding back. Think I ended up with 15 each of Saaz and Hallertau but at 3 weeks in, quite a nice drop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted September 17, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2023 I think the base on this is one that allows a bit of hops experimentation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted September 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2023 5 weeks in and maybe, just maybe I went a little early with my call on this being possibly the greatest brew in history. Because it's better than that. Bloody happy with this one but you may have guessed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted October 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2023 Next time I do this I might go half Tettanger and half Lemondrops. Just think this has not quite hit perfection yet. I can only imagine how hard this must be to do as a job (perfecting beers). The amount of times Liam must come home looking depressed and distraught and his missus taking one look and thinking "crap, he's going to talk about hops choices again, FML". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gyldenvand Posted October 6, 2023 Report Share Posted October 6, 2023 4 hours ago, Rob Courtney said: Just think this has not quite hit perfection yet. I can only imagine how hard this must be to do as a job (perfecting beers). The amount of times Liam must come home looking depressed and distraught and his missus taking one look and thinking "crap, he's going to talk about hops choices again, FML". Yeah. Sounds like a rough way to make a living... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted October 14, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2023 OK, seven weeks in and yeah that is one bloody solid lager. Will now have to look at it with a Y8 and y7 yeast though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted November 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2023 Well then. Â Have had a good day so I thought I'd have a few brews and the last one is a stubbie of this. This drinks extremely well out of a bottle. I mean, I've been talking this beer down, "not that good, probably shouldn't brew this, the other prints have this covered" but you know what, ripping the band aid off and going hammer and tongs here, damn, this is a good brew. I know I am being silly but it is really good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted November 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2023 This is really confusing me, this is good out of a glass but I think it is amazing out of a stubbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted January 12 Author Report Share Posted January 12 20 weeks in secondary but still "the balls". Â I'm hoping 2024 is the year of Golden Balls lager, with all the things happening in the world, it'd be nice to have a good news story... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thagomizer Posted April 14 Report Share Posted April 14 On 01/09/2023 at 6:20 PM, Thagomizer said: Bottled and kegged mine yesterday. Initial taste was very good. FG was 1.009. I finally got to sample this. It was great and will be repeated often.  1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted April 14 Author Report Share Posted April 14 8 hours ago, Thagomizer said: I finally got to sample this. It was great and will be repeated often.  what did you hop with? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted April 14 Author Report Share Posted April 14 That's it, I'm getting some Tshirts made up 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gyldenvand Posted April 14 Report Share Posted April 14 (edited) Ah hell. Looks like this'n is going on my to-do list. Someone tell me which hops to try first. Edited April 14 by Steve Gyldenvand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thagomizer Posted April 14 Report Share Posted April 14 11 hours ago, Rob Courtney said: what did you hop with? I dry hopped with 12g of Saaz and 12g of Hallertau. Just a "kiss" of the hops. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gyldenvand Posted April 22 Report Share Posted April 22 On 14/04/2024 at 3:24 PM, Thagomizer said: Â ...Just a "kiss" of the hops. I have always had a difficult time refraining from crude jokes, and you guys are not making it any easier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Courtney Posted Tuesday at 10:15 AM Author Report Share Posted Tuesday at 10:15 AM 13 hours ago, Steve Gyldenvand said: I have always had a difficult time refraining from crude jokes, and you guys are not making it any easier. I had to review my companies consequence management framework a while back. Basically a manager can use it to determine what outcome for a poor behaviour so we have a consistent approach to discipline. So Category A is the worst, pretty much a "don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out" sort of thing. Usual things are on there, stealing, privacy breaches, indecent exposure* (though nobody could conform what "decent exposure" was but I am guessing zip up). But the one that surprised me was "double entendres" and I was stunned, I mean I literally grew up on British comedy. How am I meant to respond when I hear "we have identified a huge hole"and me not say "yeah that's Steph from accounts" before they say "in the budget" *True story, a guy was fired in the company because for some reason I can't fathom, he sent a female staff member a picture of his d!ck on teams. I was stunned when I found out, what was he thinking, I wouldn't even send my wife one (mainly cause I don't want to ruin her day). Â And back to the beer talk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thagomizer Posted Tuesday at 06:32 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 06:32 PM "Just a kiss of the hops" was an advertising slogan used by Schlitz beer in the USA during the 1950's. They were trying to court the drinkers who didn't like a lot of hops. Hmm... I haven't seen Schlitz beer on sale for a looong time. But to follow my own definition of hops usage: Minimal Hops, i.e., no added liquid or dry hops - just Element and Enhancer packets, could be defined as a lascivious look at hops. Two sachets (or less) of liquid hops is only dancing with hops. Less than or equal to 30g of dry hops is the kiss. Less than or equal to 45g of dry hops is courting. 45g or more of dry hops is an addiction. - You may need to sign up for Hops Anonymous. 😃 Happy brewing 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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