September 14, 2006
Brewing News
I realize I haven’t brought this up in a while. I’ve been brewing beer, but had a bit of lag in drinkable beer due to the type of stuff I was brewing. My Belgian Strong Dark Ale (Clone of the Stone Vertical Epic 06.06.06) is aging right now, and will be hitting it’s stride about the end of this month and into next month. My Imperial Stout is about to get bottled, and will be drinkable about 2 months after that (maybe late November). Those batches took up a lot of time in my fermentation vessels, cutting down on the amount of stuff I could have in the pipeline.
But now that pipeline is going to be bursting! My Victorious Boilermaker IPA went into the keg last night, so I’ll probably start drinking that on Monday when I get back from Indiana… It will be a great way to celebrate the Boilermaker victory that I’ll be watching on Saturday. A week ago, my neighbor brewed up a batch of the Sierra Nevada clone. Last night I brewed an Irish Red Ale that I’m thinking will make an excellent session beer. Monday the neighbor will be brewing a crazy Rye Pale Ale that he’s shooting for an ABV around 10% with his recipe. And next weekend I’ll be brewing something to follow up that Irish Red. I haven’t decided on a recipe, but I used a specific yeast to get my Red the way I want it, and I’ll need to tailor my next recipe to that strain.
We’ve started to get the process down of doing all-grain batches. My Victorious Boilermaker IPA had an absolutely beautiful color to it when I put it into the keg, but as I mentioned a while back, I didn’t really hit my target numbers. The Irish Red last night was right about the efficiency I should be hitting, and the process really went smoothly. I hit good numbers and it certainly looked like a great beer. I’m sitting back thinking I need to drink that IPA quickly to make room in the keg for the Red!
It’s going to be a blurry fall season!
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