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| By David Ankenbrant on Feb 15th 2007, 3:53 pm | Permalink |
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Well, it was a snow day for me yesterday and I had off work. I brewed a wheat ale (6lbs pilsner, 1/2 lb crystal 20L, 3 lbs wheat, and 1/4 lb quaker instant oats, saaz hops, T-58 yeast) and I cleaned out some well overdue fermenters that were sitting with yeast sludge in them. I have been very busy lately and this is the first time I brewed in about 3 months. It was a good break though to think about what direction I wanted to go with my brewing. My 'old ale' that I used molasses in it, I don't like very much. I can taste the molasses in it and although I like molasses on butter bread I don't favor it in beer, at least the one I made, lol. My friend Ray was over the last few weeks ago and he had a few and said it was good. Everybody has their own opinion. My porter has been bottle conditioning for at least 3 or 4 months now and when I let some bottles chill in the fridge for a while, it is good good good! I had a Dead Guy Ale about a month or so ago at a casino in PA somewhere and it was good, Denny has a clone recipe of it and I want to try and brew it. I used my corona mill for the first time and cracked my grains for my wheat beer and the corona mill works great, in my opinion. THe only thins is I thought my efficiency would be much higher than it was, but efficiency really is not at the forefront of my concerns, just knowing how my system works and know how to make great beer with my system and ingredients. I am going to pick two beers, my wheat beer and the dead guy ale cone from denny, and keep brewing them over and over, until I tweek them to how I like them. I have done this in the past with one beer, and it works, but now I want to do it with two beers and keep switching back and forth, brew the wheat beer, then the dead guy clone, wheat beer, etc, and make them into GREAT beers! I need to get to readying and posting again on TB, even though I have been reading a lot of TB, probably about 2 times a week. I have been busy with other things, but I have to get back to brewing too. That's it for this entry. |
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