But hell if it's ever worth $20/bottle+ to me, except ice wine. That stuff is the shit.
I've paid $10-12 for certain 750s of beer. If you're forking out more than $20 for a bottle of wine, you're either a connoisseur or you're getting taken for a ride. $15 will get you a quite good wine if you know what to look for. Ice wine is fucking awesome, but the production is a bitch and drives the price way up.
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GORDON wrote:I told the people about this maple sap experiment on a homebrewing forum I read. Everyone says it is an awesome idea and I am awesome.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I am glad we had that 4 days of sap weather, because I got exactly 6 gallons of sap before we had another cold snap, and for the last week we have been below freezing. You are supposed to untap the tree when it starts to bud, and it will be budding in a few weeks. Sugaring season in this part of the country got severely cut short.
Not even sure if I will get enough sap to bother the maple syrup experiment... I wanted to have at least 10 gallons, and right now I have 1.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
GORDON wrote:I basically reinvented a lost brewing process, and by describing my methods on that popular forum, brought it back to the public. No big deal.
A) Brewing processes are lost only until someone sobers up enough to remember them.
B) I know I've had maple flavoured brew in the past that you haven't produced. That was not homebrew batch, though.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
GORDON wrote:FLAVORED. All kinds of peeps pour in a bottle of syrup after they brew. That's some weak ass shit compared to what I am doing.
Not syrup, not flavoured. I vaguely remember talking to the brewers at the local joint where they tapped a small keg. I was kind of drunk, but I believe I remember them pointing out it was straight from the tree.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
GORDON wrote:FLAVORED. All kinds of peeps pour in a bottle of syrup after they brew. That's some weak ass shit compared to what I am doing.
Not syrup, not flavoured. I vaguely remember talking to the brewers at the local joint where they tapped a small keg. I was kind of drunk, but I believe I remember them pointing out it was straight from the tree.
They were probably saying it was "straight from your mom" but you just don't remember.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
GORDON wrote:FLAVORED. All kinds of peeps pour in a bottle of syrup after they brew. That's some weak ass shit compared to what I am doing.
Not syrup, not flavoured. I vaguely remember talking to the brewers at the local joint where they tapped a small keg. I was kind of drunk, but I believe I remember them pointing out it was straight from the tree.
They were probably saying it was "straight from your mom" but you just don't remember.
I remember them distinctly referring to your mom.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Let this batch of beer sit for an extra week to settle and hopefully ferment the last of the sugars. Just bottled it. Final gravity came in at 1.010 which brings me to 4.5% ABV.
Smelled and tasted awesome. Hope it carbonates properly... I had overcarbonation last time I used regular sugar for bottling. As the sap glucose was always there for the yeast to eat during fermentation, hopefully we wont have that happen again.
Back in 2 weeks for tasting.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I honestly don't know how to bump the OH content. Once I added more malt to a known recipe, and that didn't work. I know different yeasts can produce more OH, but then that isn't really beer when you are using champagne yeast.
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