Busy Weekend
This last weekend was really busy, mostly due to brewing related stuff. Patrick and Tyler from The Bruery sacrificed their Sunday to let a bunch of homebrewers run amok in the brewery and brew up about 8 barrels of wort. We all took the wort home with us to ferment on our own schedules. I’m using the brewery’s house yeast and all three of my fermenters had a 1-2″ thick layer of krausen when I woke up this morning. I’m planning to add some brett to one of my fermenters to funk it up a bit, probably from some Orval dregs or Roselare.
Of course, my fermenters were still holding my pale ale, so to get ready for the brewday I needed to keg it. It ended up finishing at 1.012 (3° Plato) which is just about what I wanted. The amazing aroma from the last sample had faded some and now I wish I had some more summit or simcoe so I could dry hop it. It still smelled and tasted pretty good even if I’d like a little more intense hoppiness. I ended up cleaning 3 kegs, kegging the pale ale and then running BLC through my draft lines on Saturday afternoon/evening/night.