Current fav

I don't have a current favorite batch, probably because the 'Thunderstorm Bitter' I just finished is still green in memory. I made it on a thunderstormy day in July - one of the few beers I made this summer. It is no fun to boil five or six gallons of wort for an hour or so when it's hot, so I either don't, or try to take advantage of cool days. When I saw black clouds I bought malt, and, I notice now looking back, I treated my soft tap water with gypsum and epsom salt per some nut - maybe Noonan? I forgot all about that. All this time I thought it might have been the electrical storm - or the relief that the power hadn't gone out in the middle of the brew - or something unique to beers brewed in July - but it was the water. Maybe. I'll have to try that Epsom salt trick again.