Drinking a growler of their new Ginger Twins IPA. Very nice, balanced brew with the right amount of hop bitterness to make it an everyday beer. I was a little disappointed after I was told that it would be a seasonal. It drinks well enough to be a six-pack regular.
Overall, well worth the stop and the $12 growler refill.
And I picked up a Half Acre pint glass!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Help! We screwed up!
This is sort of embarassing. We made a Founder's Breakfast Stout clone last weekend and thought we had put together a masterpiece. That is, until I tasted the ridiculously sweet concoction, glanced at the recipe, and realized we had made the all-grain and extract recipes into one 5 gallon batch. You see, we intended to do partial-mash and failed to see that the recipe mentioned full-grain and extract, not partial-mash. We now have a 5 gallon batch which, according to Hopville recipe calculator, should produce a stout with abv at 16.5% with an astounding 535 calories per 12 oz. serving.
We screwed up.
So here is where your help comes in - can we salvage this or is it a tosser?
Two ideas:
1) Blend it with another 3-4 gallons and dilute the powerful blend we inadvertently created.
2) Run a tertiary and quaternary fermentation with different yeasts and hope that we can eat up the tremendous amount of sugar.
Any other ideas?
We screwed up.
So here is where your help comes in - can we salvage this or is it a tosser?
Two ideas:
1) Blend it with another 3-4 gallons and dilute the powerful blend we inadvertently created.
2) Run a tertiary and quaternary fermentation with different yeasts and hope that we can eat up the tremendous amount of sugar.
Any other ideas?
Sunday, February 7, 2010
And another thing ...
We bottled the IPA we made a few weeks ago. I am anxious to try it with carbonation and a bit more time to bring the flavors together. We tried it out of the bottling bucket yesterday and it tasted very good - very citrusy with a nice strong hop aroma. Very nice sugar as well which is what I wanted to create.
Breakfast Stout
I will post pictures soon, but yesterday the kpsl(nr) brewing team put together a Founder's Breakfast Stout clone. We may have made a mistake in using too much grain AND extract. No matter the outcome, I loved every minute of it. Different aromas, cold press coffee, chocolate, different grains.
It was a sticky mess but something I would very much like to do again. We will let it sit for 4-5 days in primary fermentation. After that we will check the gravity and move it to secondary fermentation where we will add more coffee. We are using two Metropolis roasts, so we will have a nice local product of which to boast.
After a few weeks in the secondary, we will check the gravity again. If our liquid still had too much sugar, we made need to make some tough decisions on the fly.
All issues aside, making beer is nothing short of great fun. And to make beer with good people is even better.
It was a sticky mess but something I would very much like to do again. We will let it sit for 4-5 days in primary fermentation. After that we will check the gravity and move it to secondary fermentation where we will add more coffee. We are using two Metropolis roasts, so we will have a nice local product of which to boast.
After a few weeks in the secondary, we will check the gravity again. If our liquid still had too much sugar, we made need to make some tough decisions on the fly.
All issues aside, making beer is nothing short of great fun. And to make beer with good people is even better.
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