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El Dorado is so skittles forward, I feel like it needs something a little harsher/spicy/grapefruit or something like that to back it up.
I've been considering Galaxy or Columbus to go with it. Maybe Amarillo.Posted 34 days ago.
Pizza Port's in-house beers are awesome, they make a ton of awesome malty/English styles that never get distributed (session sunflower seed bitter, anyone?). Their Big/hoppy beers are good, but they're old school late 90's style and aren't that impressive any more.
Posted 34 days ago.
Im not sure i'd like sunflower seed flavor in my beer. I love the things, but 95% of the addiction is shelling them and all in your mouth. Its more about something to do than the flavor...
Maybe mosaic is berry, and thats what im getting and dont like it. It just tasted...weird...
And ive used centennial/cascade with it i think, though the last time or two was mosaic/citra, and citra comes across a bit too sweet for me as well. I think i might go back to cascade/centennial mixes, or using those two by themselves. Grapefruit flavor in beer seems like it'd be weird, but for an easy drinking pale/amber, damn is it tasty.
Maybe mosaic is berry, and thats what im getting and dont like it. It just tasted...weird...
And ive used centennial/cascade with it i think, though the last time or two was mosaic/citra, and citra comes across a bit too sweet for me as well. I think i might go back to cascade/centennial mixes, or using those two by themselves. Grapefruit flavor in beer seems like it'd be weird, but for an easy drinking pale/amber, damn is it tasty.
Posted 34 days ago.
Surely I wasn't getting that resin/earthy/pine from Galaxy or Amarillo? Surely that was the Mosaic talking?
Posted 34 days ago.
Mosaic definitely has a bit of a resin character... it is what makes it so interesting as a single-hop beer - it tastes like a multi-hop beer.
Posted 34 days ago.
Here's the one I'm talking about:
https://untappd.com/b/pizza-port-seeds-of-wrath/770748
Seems most folks didn't like it as much as I did, but I thought it was pretty unique/tasty. And it was only $3/pint!
Posted 34 days ago.
I like Mosaic a lot, and while I do get a berry character from it, I get more pungent overripe fruit bowl with a touch of resiny dank. I know of a few people, JP from The BN included, who perceive it as kerosene. I've never had kerosene, but if that's how it tastes, I might be willing to try it...
Posted 34 days ago.
Why do you think this blend will be more estery than a single yeast? The range of esters and tastes will be wider, but the amount of ester will not be 'more'. On a single pitch it behaves as if it is 'one' yeast, each cell producing it's own spectrum.
Posted 34 days ago.
It's because it's lots of ester-forward strains. It might not be more estery per se, but my experience w/ White Labs' frankenbeers is that they're *super* ester forward (opinions on their brew quality aside).
Posted 34 days ago.
So, estery in comparison with the current trend of clean clean cleaner, yes.
Posted 34 days ago.
When you write the article, you'll need pictures of the starter strapped to a medical exam table with electrodes attached. That should be alongside a picture of a lightning strike. Perhaps you should be wearing a tinfoil cap as well?
Posted 34 days ago.
But then, it might arc and get me!
Posted 34 days ago.
