Spruce Beer

[rabjr]

My brew is on day 8 and still fermenting nicely! :grin:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Excellent!

:thumbsup:

LD

 

[rabjr]

:haha: Fermenting has slowed but its still going at the two week mark...

 

[Trench]

Are you going to take a specific gravity measurement? I'd love to know the alcohol level if you do.

 

[rabjr]

I could I suppose, if I remember lol. The yeast I used are pretty active buggers lol.

 

[msuspartan]

LD,
not to offend ANY of my American bretheren, but I heartily agree with you. Spent two and a half years in Germany and drank many a pint/liter of true beer/ale/lager/pilsner etc.

We are having a wonderful beer revolution here with many micro breweries popping up all over with some fantastic libations. :thumbsup:

Miss John Courage tho' cannot get it locally. Shame, really a shame.

Cheers, DonK

PS, from a true beer snob.... :v

 

[Loyalist Dave]

yeah that's the problem with craft brewing at home..., there isn't much OTC brand beer you can take after having the real stuff.

LD

 

[hawk]

Well how are the suds coming boys??

 

[Trench]

Well, I drank all mine. :grin:

 

[rabjr]

I racked it at 3 weeks, aging it now.

 

[DTCoffin]

:rotf: :thumbsup: , I could not agree more! Watered down skunk urine

 

[BillinOregon]

Dave, Dave, my dear UK friend, what you call American swill we call "lawn-mowing beer," and properly so.
The down side is that it is thin, watery and without much character. The up side is that after your first four pints of Guinness, a couple of Busch Lights will leave you feeling much less full and over time, not nearly so obese, owing to the reduced caloric intake ...

:wink:

Swampy, eagerly awaiting your report!

Message posted from the heart of microbrew country, Oregon.

 

[BillinOregon]

By the way, wish I had seen this thread back in April, when we had fresh spruce buds. Any particular species? We have Engleman, Sitka and a couple of other species here in Oregon ...

 

[rabjr]

My Cuz was down from Vermont a week or so ago and had to get into my Cyser. While we were he talked me into taste testing this Spruce beer even though I tried to tell him it was much to soon...well we both pretty much at the same time said it tasted like old shoe leather. :haha: Not that either of us know what old shoe leather tastes like to begin with....we'll see what it is like at 6 months.

 

[msuspartan]

And just for your drinking pleasure, Guinness, while a better beer is not that much more than Miller (barf) Lite.

Miller Lite, 4.2% alcohol, 96 calories and 3.2 carbs

Guinness 7.5 % 175 calories and 10 carbs
As a diabetic I can have one. OH YEAH......

Cheers, DonK

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Guinness isn't "beer". Neither is Miller Lite. Though for different reasons.

LD