Pics cause it happened =)
Thanks for sending them!
Poured nicely into the glass, I think ...
Had a really persistent head and lacing galore ...
And a color not all that dissimilar from my IPA ...
There's a very different hop taste relatively, mine was Columbus and Citra, and this one I can't put my finger on because my IPA game is super limited ...
There's a flavor I can't put my finger on, that's like the taste of my open-fermented saison, that was fermented out in the house w/ a fermwrap ...
Mine was more exaggerated, and there was some other shit going on with it, but yours def has a small bit of that same taste ... albeit not enough to be off ...
There was a lot of yeast ...
Enough that I was able to coat the whole cylinder of the bottle ...
I don't bottle, but I get a couple glasses w/ yeast like this to start of a keg, and I enjoy when it ends ... so I think you might have something to look forward to in starting to keg!
There's a huge difference in mouthfeel ... it's much, much, much lighter in body/weight than my beer ... almost sparkling ... but I mean, I do everything in my power to make syrupy, chewy, malty beers, so I'm sure that's why it's so divergent in this regard ... mine are probably 'wrong' lol ...
It has a little taste of my beer batches when my pH's were high and the water was unfiltered ... something I never put my finger on here, and still can't tonight ...
I changed to filtered, bought citric acid, and added temp control to the storage at the same time, and it went away, so it could have been any of those or something unrelated, but I do recognize it as a subtler instance of the same taste ...
Interesting, but nothing that prevented me from enjoying it!
Next!
Nice job filling, notably minimized headspace
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Poured nicely!
Sexy ...
Perhaps oddly translucent, but I have much more extensive familiarity w/ stout than porter beers ...
I can't see my finger through more of mine than not, but I can see it through your porter ...
That's cool ... because it's definitely a porter by taste ...
It's light in perceived mouthfeel, but I've decided that that is me, because I often feel that way about commercial beers too!
I thought it opened up a bit as it warmed, and was pretty tasty ...
So many ?'s now ... and intense desire to bottle some of mine and share, but good job and thanks for the gift and opportunity!
And now ...
Keep on truckin' ...
Probably the water difference. So what did you think?
This. Now I'm DYING to take readings next brew day!
