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By Bryan Peretto on Feb 20th 2005, 7:55 pm	Permalink
Just kegged two beers that have been long overdue: Irish Red Ale (4.6%) and a Dopplebock (7.6%). I force carbed but am letting them sit on pressure now. I haven't tasted them carbed. But the DBock... Oh... my... god! It's got this caramel-malty slightly toasty thing going on. This is definitely an award winner! Time to go cleanup the brewery...

By Bryan Peretto on Jan 31st 2005, 9:48 pm	Permalink
Thanks Eric. Last weekend I purged my old hops and got rid of some of grain, too. Then I looked at what's coming up and re-stocked for the next 7 beers. The order came today and I re-inventoried. 41 oz of hops and 389 lbs of grain. Hey- if you're not going to do it to excess, ya might as well not do it at all!

By Bryan Peretto on Jan 15th 2005, 7:52 pm

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'Just got back from our club competition. Each year we have a members-only competition where every member has to submit one beer that they brewed. Josh and I always brew together, so we each entered one beer that we both brewed. The judging is according to what beer best fits the style (not which tastes best because that's too subjective and usually bigger beers win out). You also can't judge your own beer. Anyways, out of the 13 beers entered. Josh and I tied for 1st place which we thought was really funny. In the end, our russian imperial oatmeal stout took 1st place (which josh entered) and our vienna lager took 2nd place (which I entered).

Some other good ones (3rd place) was the belgian dubble by bruce stott, the aha 2003 homebrewer of the year . A nice barley wine from john (which just needs more aging). A tasty Alt from Frank who is usually one of the top rated brewers in new england. And a lot of other good beers.

By Bryan Peretto on Dec 15th 2004, 12:54 am	Permalink
Well, another milestone: I kegged my first beer today (2 actually). Our HB Club brew- an american amber. And the other 5 gallons of my Fraoch which won 1st place in albany. I force carb'd it, but don't plan on connecting the beer line for 2 days. I'm going to have to play with the length to balance the system.

By Bryan Peretto on Nov 7th 2004, 2:26 am	Permalink
judged my second competition. Categories were badly collapsed and prizes only awarded for those groups- not individual categories, so it was pretty tough! Still, we took home a 1st (heather ale) and 2nd (chamomile pale) place. All done on the typical converted keg setup with fly sparge