Our homebrew competition entries, proudly wearing their ribbons.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Recent Brews
Lots to report since the last post, here's a quick catch-up.
Went to the Evergreen State Fair over Labor Day weekend to check out the judging of our entries in the homemade beverage competition. I was pleased to learn that our IPA earned a red ribbon and our wheat beer a white ribbon. White is nothing to boast about, of course, but then neither was our wheat beer, in my opinion. The IPA on the other hand was pretty good and earned a total score of 37 out of 50 points, just one point away from a blue ribbon. I think we'll enter again next year, and hopefully go home with a blue.
Here are our display bottles at the fair:
That same weekend, we brewed a 10 gallon batch our Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale clone recipe. We're calling it Festivus Ale. Kegged it last weekend. Looking forward to trying the finished product any day now.
After recently learning about fresh hopped beer, we decided to brew again when my homegrown Chinook hops were ready for harvest. We used the Hopitat IPA recipe and substituted the fresh hops for the Magnum that would normally go in at the beginning of the boil. That was on Sunday the 16th. Racked it last weekend. Very much looking forward to trying this one.
Went to the Evergreen State Fair over Labor Day weekend to check out the judging of our entries in the homemade beverage competition. I was pleased to learn that our IPA earned a red ribbon and our wheat beer a white ribbon. White is nothing to boast about, of course, but then neither was our wheat beer, in my opinion. The IPA on the other hand was pretty good and earned a total score of 37 out of 50 points, just one point away from a blue ribbon. I think we'll enter again next year, and hopefully go home with a blue.
Here are our display bottles at the fair:
That same weekend, we brewed a 10 gallon batch our Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale clone recipe. We're calling it Festivus Ale. Kegged it last weekend. Looking forward to trying the finished product any day now.
After recently learning about fresh hopped beer, we decided to brew again when my homegrown Chinook hops were ready for harvest. We used the Hopitat IPA recipe and substituted the fresh hops for the Magnum that would normally go in at the beginning of the boil. That was on Sunday the 16th. Racked it last weekend. Very much looking forward to trying this one.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Michael Jackson, 1942 - 2007
The New York Times reports that Michael Jackson has died. I'm not as familiar with his work as I should be, but he is well known as a friend of beer. More on his passing and his legacy is at beerhunter.com.
From the caption to a photo on flickr :
Michael liked to joke, "They say abstaining from beer will make you live longer. It's not true. It just feels like it."
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