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I think that as homebrewers, our expectations are higher than what most commercial brewers can turn out.

pacman wrote:How do you guys think a drop of hop extract would go in a stubbie of Hop Thief?

That's an interesting concept.. I pondered that whilst drinking Cascade Light at the cricket last year.

How would you go taking a bottle of hopped & lightly malted water along and adding a dash to each glass of craptastic lolly water they call beer?

Hi pixelboy, just visited your homebrew site - very impressed. Where do I learn to create one of these? Any links?

My query re use of hop extract in JS Hop Thief was prompted by my finding the brew over malted & under hopped for my taste.

Will answer my own question over Easter & report results.

pacman wrote:Hi pixelboy, just visited your homebrew site - very impressed. Where do I learn to create one of these? Any links?

Thanks mate, I am a web develeoper and I built it using my companies CMS... Its just a basic blog style. If you dont know any coding Id head over to Blogger and sign up for a free blog.. Its pretty simple

Am having one of these now and although its a drinkable beer i wont be goin back for more in a hurry, cant rave about it and certainly dont think its under hopped

last time i remember enjoying it a lot more.

Just got some for my birthday. Very drinkable for a commercial beer.
I wouldn't want it any more bitter, it would be very out of style.
Interesting blending oh hops as well.

I'll still take my amarillo apa over this any day.

Just found a 6-pack of this at my local Ritchies/IGA supermarket booze section. Dearer than Cellarbrations but there was some more 6 packs there.

It's the Ritchies in Berwick if anyones interested.

Can't comment on the taste yet as they're still getting cold.

I finally tasted this on Sunday. I have 3 stubbies and it wasn't too bad for a commercial beer.

I found it tasty but I'd been waiting to find it for a while and It didn't live up to expectations. Just didn't seem to have the character that I expected. Give me a JSIPA any day

pacman wrote:Hi pixelboy, just visited your homebrew site - very impressed.

Agree, great effort pixelboy but I'd like to look at the photo of the beers on the railing without the screen spoiling the view.

Thats the view from my front balcony

>> http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 225&size=o

And since my wife just had a baby a designer mate of mine thought it needed an update
>> http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id ... 385&size=o

LOL!!!

Thanks pixel, you're a lucky bloke.

The second pic is hilarious! Although it has been my sad experience that once the container on the right appears, the two others quickly vanish.

Just having one of these now - I have always meant to try it - and found it here when I was at the bottle shop.

I really don't enjoy it. It isnt awful - but it certainly isnt anything special. I agree with KEG's earlier comments.

It tastes like a home brewer playing with hops for the first time... and I dont know what hops they using - but it also smells and tastes like a funky estery type smell in there too... For my mind it smells like something you would smell if having a IPA with your mate and he burped on you. Not for me.