Posted in Strawberry, Tasting on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
As we had some guests round on Tuesday, we opened one of the half bottles of Strawberry wine, os that the girls could have a glass each with their meal:
(Please forgive the quality of the last few images on here - my camera is still full of holiday pictures and I keep having to delete [...]
Posted in Merlot, Tasting on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
As intented, with today’s Sunday lunch, I had a glass of the Merlot that I bottled yesterday.
As you can see, it looks the part. Tastes pretty good too
I am really pleased to report that this is definitely a decent quality Merlot. I’m very pleasantly surprised. It already has a complex, fairly deep flavour [...]
Posted in IPA, Tasting on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
My first brew has now had over two months in the bottle. After throwing away the Light as detailed in the post below, I decided to see how the IPA is now. I opened one of the beers bottled in the cheap lager bottles (and my initial suspicions with these bottles is that they don’t [...]
Posted in Linthwaite Light, Tasting on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Oh dear Phil and I cracked open the first 2 bottles of the 3 week old Linthwaite Light. It is not good. I find it hard to describe it, other than to say it had a very cheap beer taste and smell. There was a, perhaps yeasty, taste that hits you almost before its [...]
Posted in IPA, Tasting on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
With Phil and another mate, Chris, round on Tuesday, I decided it was time to crack open a few more bottles of the IPA, and see how its doing at the 4 week (since bottling) stage. I seem to be swinging back and forth with my thoughts on my first brew as I’m back to [...]
Posted in IPA, Tasting on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Three weeks after bottling the IPA, and a couple of weeks since the first (very early and slightly disappointing) tasting, I decided it was time for another go. I hoped this time, given we are approaching the 4 week mark where some suggest the beer should be at its best, the beer would be much [...]
Posted in IPA, Tasting on February 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I debated when to open the first bottle of my very first home brewed beer. I had intended originally to leave it at least one month, but some expert advice stated that it could be at its peak after as little as 4 weeks. This advice went against my experience when tasting Phil’s homebrew (see [...]
