Bad News on the Pumpkin Ale Front

26Oct08

I’ve opened three separate bottles of the pumpkin ale so far, and they’ve all turned out to be volcanic in the carbonation end. Maybe I’ll post a video of one of them, but I’m not optimistic about getting to drink any of it. That means both the fall beers that I tried to [...]

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Mocha Stout–Brew Night Report

08Oct08

3 gallons distilled water, 1 1/2 tsp. gypsum
Warm to 100 degrees, steep the 4# of crushed grains. Leave at 150F for 20 minutes. Heat to 200, pull grains.
Bring to boil.
Add 6.6# LME and 1# Lactose, 8oz of cocoa.
Bring back to boil.
After 10 minutes, add hops. At 50 minutes, add finishing hops.
It looks [...]

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Updates

08Oct08

I added a new page to the blog, “On Deck” which lists what’s in the fermenters and bottles that is not ready to drink yet, and what’s coming up.  You can follow the fermentation of the current batches there.  It’ll be a little easier to manage having a third secondary now.
Tonight is brew night.  Come [...]

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Safe Arrival

04Oct08

Today, excepting the cocoa, espresso and molasses, all of the ingredients for two entire batches of Mocha Stout arrived at my house.  Including a new, second, glass secondary, which means I can be aging three batches of beer/wine at a time in secondaries.  That will be helpful.
I’m using a different yeast this time, and adding [...]

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Coming Soon: Mocha Stout

01Oct08

Tonight (or last night of sorts) I ordered enough ingredients, save the cocoa and the coffee for two batches of my ever popular Mocha Stout. This will be batches 3 and 4 of the product, and to date it is the most likely to be a favorite among the friends (read: people who come [...]

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