Weekly Update, 11/10/10

Newly bottled Over-the-Fence Weissbier

Ad-Seg IPA - tastes great.  Almost done conditioning in the bottle. 

Rolled Up Irish Red - in the bottle.  Very alcoholic (8.5%) to the taste at bottling - probably will take a couple of months to reach best flavor.  Good now, but too much alcoholic burn.

Hard Cider - in the fermenter for a few weeks.  Used Wyeast Sweet Mead yeast and it's fermenting like crazy.  Didn't expect it to be so fast or furious.  Had to install blowoff tube.

Early morning bottling crew

Short Timer Stout - ready to rack to secondary.  Tastes great.  This one's a keeper.

Planning on brewing a brown ale (Nuts 'n Butts Brown Ale) this weekend.  It's the last beer I'm going to try and get done before Christmas.  Here's hoping!

Weekly Update, 11/4/10

I haven't posted in a while, mostly because I haven't brewed since the Bottom Number Blonde.  However, I have done a couple of things worthy of note:

Ad-Seg IPA - carbing slowly, but at last taste is going to be fantastic.

Contraband Chocolate Stout - bottled and carbing.  Seems quick on the carbonation end - after four days in the bottle I popped one and it was over half done.  A tad green tasting, but very good.  This is going to be a great Christmas beer.

Rolled Up Irish Red - due to be bottled in a few days.  Great flavor and a very high alcohol content - by brewing efficiency on this one was somewhere in the 80% range.

Brevis Bock - bottled with a very slight grainy taste.  Hoping that mellows in the bottle.

GN14 Hard Cider - threw some Tree Top apple juice, sugar, honey, and sweet mead yeast into a carboy to see what would happen.  Fermenting faster than I expected.  Hoping for a good batch of 8% or so hard cider.

On deck I'm planning on brewing a Dry Stout akin to Murphy's tonight, Short Timer Stout, then on Saturday shoot for my newest recipe, MJ14 Special Dark.  Next week I'm thinking of trying Nuts 'n Butts Brown Ale.