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8 wired hop wired down, have showcased it before. Cracking New Zealand beer, mosaic dominant.  Next up is the Stone ruination double IPA 2.0.  Candied hop resin, seriously that is the dominant flavour.      

5 lb of beer braised hickory smoked beef short ribs underway... 

I only boiled once, couldn't bring myself to denature all of the heat out of them!

Starting with the Youngs Special London Ale. 6.4%  Malty biscuit with medium bittering and spice with some seville orange marmalade flavours on the finish. Thinking EKG and challenger hops.   Very nice indeed! 

These came home with me from the markets today  :party: to keep me going until the english IPA is carbonated and we are tap in business again.     From the left   Rochefort 8 8 wired wireless IPA (fermented with brett) Nogne 0 baltic porter Aventinus Eisbock Sam Smith chocolate stout Young's...

Nice signature Tinnie, thanks! 

Will be brewing alongside though.  My oatmeal stout and a pliny style double IPA I found online that I want to try this week.   Oatmeal stout Ingredients  1 lbs 0.8 oz Oats, Flaked and toasted for 35 minutes at 300f (1.0 SRM) Grain 1 7.7 % 11 lbs 0.4 oz Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain...

Happy to play when things get interesting.       Lol.  Just figure if I am going to allocate 5 hours - I may as well do something I really want to drink 5 gallons + of.  Out of interest, did you end up doing a pliny clone? I remember some discussion about it but don't recall if you did one.  

smash - no, probably not.  Oatmeal stout and a double IPA Pliny the Elder style this week though.

Haven't been on properly for a bit - will have a look now, what's brewing?  I am kegging an english IPA and a blackcurrant cider today, so the fridge and fermenters are free...

  Fresh batch of aji amarillo paste.  Yummmmmmmm!     

Some pics of peppers!  picking over a kg a week now.     Reaper in half, gnarly red bhut, bunch of peppers going in for smoking and some aji amarillo about to be turned into paste, and lastly a pick of a weekly haul! 

Beer snacks!!!   Apple wood smoked almonds with red bhut powder (also smoked in apple wood and fresh out of the dehydrator) cumin powder, brown sugar and salt and a little macadamia oil to bind.  Going in the oven now.  

Welcome!

The size of the leaves... seriously!!!!  Not tempted to top them and encourage laterals? 

Thoughts go to the good people of Brussels as terrorist attacks unfold.

  Sure   The first is the gnarly bhut, the second is the stubby (?) bhut and the third is a pic of a more mature reaper, following on from an earlier conversation.  Apols for the rotation of the pics, iphone... 

Congrats!  Great looking pods. I will overwinter my reaper.  It seems they need a long season to get going, so a I think a second year plant will go gang busters.  

I have eaten around the world, and had some amazing food.  Life changing, best meal ever?   Mum's chilled tomato consomme using a variety of heirloom tomatoes.  This blew me away, one of the freshest most flavour packed dishes I have had.