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Had a nice sharp gingerale with dinner. It was a bit overbubbly but it had a nice warm spicey ginger kick on the back end, and not too sweet. Very enjoyable.

Recently tried a route beer, aged 66 to perfection. A hint of a syrupy taste, but a strong rooty flavor. Very pleased with it.

Heard about the butter beer and am curious to try it. Anyone had one lately, and if so what are your thoughts? You like the head of foam on top, I hear some prefer the frothy concoction without said froth.
 
Go to a gas station near by, one that has root beer in the fountain. Preferrably A&W, but Mug works in a pinch. Barq's, although good, doesn't work.

Put ice in the cup to your normal amount. Slowly, very slowly, put in some root beer. Tap, tap, tap. Get it to fizz up. Fill to Just barely covering the ice. Then the rest with Pepsi.

It's glorious.
 
I don't keep up with it religiously but it's a great blog for beer in Utah. I think it's also one of the only places online to find previous years Beehive Brew Off results. He gets them up pretty quickly after they are released.

Speaking of the Beehive Brew Off, https://www.facebook.com/events/446199938882153/ I'm gearing up and fine tuning recipes to enter this year. I'll be doing my first ever double brew day this weekend for two of my intended entries, Third Cousin (Scottish Ale) and Pistol Porter (English Brown Porter). Then once I get those out of their fermentors, about three weeks, I'll be doing another double brew day to brew both my British Bitters, YES (Strong Bitter) and Worker Bee (Ordinary Bitter).

The style guidelines have changed for the first time since 2008. https://www.bjcp.org/docs/2015_Guidelines_Beer.pdf

What was the English Pale Ale category is now the British Bitter category and within that category what was Extra Special Bitter (my most brewed style and what I call YES, Young's Extra Special) is now Strong Bitter. Scottish ales have changed as well. What was Scottish 80/- (eighty shilling) is now Scottish Export Ale. And Porter used to be a main category but the various styles of porter are now spread amongst various other main style categories, so Brown Porter is now in the Brown British Beer category with Dark Mild and Brown Ale. Baltic Porter is now in Strong European Lagers and there is an American Porter in the American Porter and Stout category.

Anyway, wish me luck. Although the category name has changed I'm hoping to get my 4th gold in a row in the British Bitter category with either Worker Bee (2014 gold medal winner) or YES (2012 & 2013 gold medal winner).

I hope my Scottish Export, Third Cousin, comes out well because it's the beer I make that I like the most nowadays.

Cheers!

Maybe you need a Jazzfanz pre-tasting so we can tell you how good it is?
 
Something like that might be possible.

in Chicago perhaps?


anyhow, I was just reading somewhere that the latest craze in artisan home brewing is ROOT BEER

Also, that Pepsi will be experimenting with self-serve soda fountains where you create your own mixes

(I'll try to find links)
 
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ok, here's the root beer story, guess I misunderstood - it's a beer (with alcohol content) that has root beer overtones (or undertones?? whatever...)

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/dining/sc-food-0605-drink-boozy-root-beer-20150601-story.html

Kovac, brewmaster at Small Town Brewery, believes root beer is the next big thing in craft beer. Granted, I can see where he's coming from. After all, the main output from his Wauconda-based brewery is Not Your Father's Root Beer, an alcoholic root beer that is quickly growing — between April and May it expanded from availability in eight states to 25 states. That's despite, or perhaps because of, its hefty 10.7 percent alcohol by volume when on tap (there's also an even bigger 19.5 percent version; the bottled version is a more modest 5.9 percent alcohol by volume).

"It reminds you of when you were a kid," he says. "At the same time, this is an adult drink. It's a whole new category that I'm sure others will soon join."

and here's the Pepsi story

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pepsi-to-launch-new-line-of-fountain-sodas-1433441285

By Mike Esterl
Updated June 4, 2015 6:21 p.m. ET

PepsiCo Inc. is trying to ride the craft beer craze by rolling out a new soda fountain that will deliver exotic sodas like agave vanilla cream and black cherry with tarragon when restaurant-goers pull on a lever that looks like a draft beer tap.

The beverage and snack food giant said the new soda line called Stubborn Soda will be naturally flavored and sweetened with sugar cane instead of high-fructose corn syrup.

PepsiCo is trying to tap into the growing demand for natural and artisanal products after watching small craft brewers in the beer market swipe market share from mainstream lagers like Budweiser and Miller with exotic offerings like cherry wheat ale and maple bacon coffee porter....
 
I cut on booze quite much this late 1 or 2 years. I congratulate and handshake myself. Now Ramadan is up and I'll go cold turkey in Turkey.
 
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St ides 40 malt liquor bishes
 
Haha.. Awesome!!!!

Tequila
Vodka
Bourbon
Beer
Zima

I like all that.

Zima was the first thing I got drink on. Bout 20 years ago
 
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