What Cheers! #038 - Tröegs Nugget Nectar
I figured I’d give you guys an update since it’s been… like 5 months since any sort of real post on here. Well, between working full time, going back to class on my days off, usually going to work events on my other day off, and filming What Cheers! at night I haven’t had any time to brew. My last two batches were minor disappointments so it definitely slowed me down a bit, in addition to having ZERO TIME.
What Cheers! has been an absolute blast to film. We are drinking some of the craziest beers on, or previously on, the market. People are sending us beer they want us to review. I’m acting stupid in front of a camera and having a crazy time doing it. It’s essentially become a second blog. I hope to eventually get a tumblr for What Cheers! so all of you that are interested can follow me there as well, but for now we are just on YouTube… and Facebook… and Twitter.
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I Swear THIS is The Last Time!
Everytime it comes around to bottling day I swear to myself that I will start kegging. For real this time… This is the last time I will bottle.
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As if you needed another reason to drink…
I’d by no means calls 3711 clean. It’s not as potent as other saison strains, especially if you keep the temps on the lower end, but clean it isn’t. Eating all those sugars however, it will. One of my favorite yeasts. Cheers!
Maybe “clean” was a poor choice in words. I know it will be adding some new flavors to the beer, but it’s really just the sugar-eating vacuum of a yeast strain that I am looking for. It will get the job done and produce a drinkable beer. I’ll fine tune it and fix my mash on batch #2 so that I don’t need 3711.
Stuck Fermentation
So I mentioned in my last homebrewing update that after 6 months I finally got back into the game. I also mentioned how the first hurdle I had to overcome was remembering how to brew.
…Well apparently I forgot how to brew. The morning after pitching my yeast (SafAle S-04) I noticed that a krausen had formed and my blow-off tube was bubbling away. Normal. What seemed odd though was that the krausen was only about 1/8” thick. I’m not sure I’d even call it a full krausen. I let it chug away for another week before I started to get worried.
What Cheers! #006 - Firestone Walker Parabola (2012)
I’ll let the most recent comment speak for itself on this one:
“I’ve really been enjoying your reviews. This one is my favorite thus far because 1) Parabola is an amazing beer and you guys put it perfectly in your review and 2) I’m pretty sure Jared is drunk in this one and it’s pretty entertaining.”
What Cheers! #005 - Pretty Things Meadowlark IPA
