Stone Cali-Belgique IPA

Score:4
Style: Belgian IPA
ABV:6.9%

For a guy who used to despise Belgians, I sure have been drinking a lot of them. It's been a while since I've had something from Stone and admittedly, that's always a bad decision. Stone has never let me down and this Belgian IPA was amazing.

I'm not claiming to be a beer reviewer or anything like that so bear with me here. There's something about marrying the sweet yeastyness of a Belgian and the floral bitter punch of hops, and Stone did this amazingly well. I've had others like it before and most notably Flying Dog's Ragin' Bitch, but forget that thing this Stone offering is the real deal, go pick it up if you can, I'm sure you won't regret it.

It's Wednesday

My brewnotes are taking off, and somehow I feel like I am turning into some kind of whack-o mad scientist. I am pretty excited about controlling my carb temp. using a relatively cheap and hopefully effective method.

I am however looking into finally picking up a temp controller. This is what I was thinking of, since it says it handles both hot and cold temp ranges.  I'm going off to the beer store a bit later to pick up a new brew, and I'll pot all findings. Also I have figured out what my next brew is going to be.....

come back to me!

Batch #2 Update

So yesterday I racked my brew into secondary, despite all the things I had read about it not really being necessary. I tasted my product and it seems a bit too bitter, I'm just hoping that it will eventually smoothen out in the secondary.Looks like another 2 weeks or so to just sit and wait.

Will you be better than my wheat?

The article I found on Reddit about AB-In Bev pissed me off. I really gotta wonder what kind of tactic that is, I mean who really says the stuff AB VP was saying anyway? It definitely made me ban all AB/IN Bev products from here on out. Not that I really gave them much business anyway but I will miss my Bud Light Limes and Natty Ice! I picked up some Harpoon Rye IPA, and let me tell you, that stuff is absolutely delicious!
I was afraid my perfect pint might explode, pouring a Harpoon offering into a Sam Adams glass, but im still alive.

A good day off!

Please don't look to me to review any kind of beers in-depth giving many flavor notes and hints, because honestly if it didn't tell me on the label I couldn't pick out half of the flavors anyway.

Magic Hat excited me for the first time in a while with their Elder Betty, which is an Elderberry Weiss, but I was a bit disappointed. It was definitely light and crisp, but the elderberry wasn't as prominent as I would have wanted. I think I'll stick to Absolut Boston for my elderberry kick.

Harpoon Rye IPA was a nice aromatic IPA with a crisp finish. The label says spicy characteristic with a complex. balanced body...but to me, its just a nice clean IPA with a crisp finish.