Brewing a Green Flash IPA clone with my brother. It’s part of his Christmas present.
10:15 – Mashed In. 152F, 5.3pH.
11:52 – On the way to boiling …
12:20 – Boiling, added the 90 minute hop addition.
That’s a lot of hops….
16:30 – Done cleaning, wort is in the fermenter coming down to pitching temp. Hit the [...]
Finally brewing again after several busy months! I’m really excited to get this beer brewed in the new fermenter system, since it picked up my house off-flavor the last few times I’ve brewed it. This time I’m also using the White Labs Kolsch yeast, WLP029, to see how it works in the beer.
0945 [...]
I just finished kegging the RyePA I brewed in November and I’ve got some mixed emotions. Everything was looking great, the fermenter system worked excellent this time around and racking to the kegs with co2 was really simple. I got just the right volume to fill two kegs, and the sample I took [...]
I’m taking this week off from work in order to use up some vacation hours that I’ve accrued. This gave me an opportunity to brew twice in a month for the first time since I went back to school. I really love an IPA when the nights are cool, but I was also considering brewing [...]
I just finished kegging the cream ale. It tastes fantastic, the hops may be a little too upfront for the style, but the citrus-y, earthy notes compliment the beer really well in my opinion. I couldn’t stop drinking the sample I pulled. It also attenuated really well, finishing at 1.006 (1.5 P). [...]
It may be a little out of season, but I’m brewing a cream ale today. I’m really excited for this batch because I’ll be trying out my new Sanke keg fermenter. I’m still a little worried about how I’m going to keep it cool, but I’ll figure something out. Here’s a quick shot of the [...]
I’m cleaning some kegs today, which led to this sad scene.
To envision this properly you should be playing Taps in your head right now. Mind you, the actual act of dumping this beer is an act of mercy and is not sad in the least. What is sad is the infection that left this beer, [...]
Last Saturday I added 4lbs of Turbinado sugar to the fermenting barleywine. That really woke the yeast up and got them going again for a couple of days. I just got back from The Bruery’s Black Tuesday party and checked the gravity on the barleywine. It’s currently sitting between 1.018 and 1.020. [...]
I took the day off to brew today. I’m making a big American style barleywine that I’m hoping to drink at Christmas. I know this isn’t enough time to properly age a barleywine, but as long as the alcohol isn’t too overpowering I think it will be a nice beer after only a few months. [...]
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