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Great to see you Swen!

Today is my first brewday in a while. Doing my modification of Dave's 100 Years War IPA. I added a bit more amber malt than the original recipe that brings it up to about 8% ABV when done. Thanks again to Dave for posting it a while back. This is my favorite extract/partial mash recipe.

Racked 5 gallons of my 6 month old Tart of Darkness clone onto 2 lbs dried cherries and 2.5 lbs dried figs. Gravity was 1.008 and base beer tasted really good. Will add oak cubes in a few months and probably bottle around 18 months total.



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Nuttin', absolutely nuttin'!...

And I'm running out...

Like the fig idea though Jeff...

GOTTA BREW SOMETHING SOON!

Since I have to take one of my kids to get on a bus in 2 hours, I am brewing in the middle of the night to pass time (no point in going to sleep now). But I'm keeping it simple. 1.045 SMaSH of pale malt and a couple oz of Styrian Aurora (1oz @20, 1oz @flameout, 30 minute hop stand with all the hops), and will pitch S-04. Should make a nice pale ale.

That Fig idea does sound interesting, no doubt.
Well here's a new one I brewed today. It's a new line(?) of beer recipes from Midwest Supplies called A Beer. Simply Beer. This one was a Pale Ale 5G Extract w/Steeping grains recipe. I bought the Pale Ale, Brown Ale, and IPA recipes.

I bottled my continuously hopped bohemian style (as in lots of sazz) pilsner that I used the swiss lager yeast in. It fermented warm, finished fast, and is still very clean, I would say "kolsch like clean" vs. "lager clean" but still pretty nice for a pilsner brewed in the 60s.

Next up is some kind of Belgian, maybe I will brew my regular patersbier but throw some of the lavender I have in it. Because I still have a lot of it. I'm calling it Belgian and Saison season at my house now since I had to turn on my air conditioner airborne brett infuser.

Bottled my Darkside Wheat this morning.  First Mr. Beer batch in a long time.  Tasted interesting at bottling.

Bottling 5 gallons of Not Fat, Stout.  Oatmeal Stout, including adding an ounce of cold steeped coffee concentrate into 40% of the bottles.

Just finishing up a second batch of the Simply Simarillo Session IPA. I get to use my new toys!

Well that didn't go so well with the RCE. Ended up .05 points too low because I jacked up my mash out and/or didn't boil hard enough. And burned a hole in my brew bag.

Then found a bee floating in the boil when transferring.

Not my best brewday, but it'll make beer.

Bottled 16 last night for our local club comp. King Of The Mountain, 2 each of The Mather Steamship, Divergent IPA, Traveling Irish Red, Beyond The Dark Extra, Beyond The Dark Bourbon Barrel, and Bottoms Up Brown in American Brown and Bottoms Up Pub Brown for English Brown (since I have had some Borgies and local brewmasters mention it has an English ring to it). Then one each of PGA Cider and The Mather Steamship for a special Founders Cup sessionables only competition inside the competition, it is in honor of our clubs Founder who passed away @ 45 on St Patricks Day w/proceeds going to his daughters education.

I bottled my Styrian Aurora single hopped pale ale.

just bottled 2.8 gals of sd-slims simply limeade (avec lemonade ) hefeweizen. (from another forum...still a great recipe slim wherever you are)
next to bottle on sunday, a witbier made with grains of paradise, Valencia orange peel and the tiniest bit of coriander... and a dash of honey for fun.
the week after that I rack my RIS to secondary fermenters for 2 months..perhaps 3. the banana has finally subsided. eager to try this one.
soon.. doing an Eldorado / ahtanum IPA with gold lme and carapils. plans on the books for : saison, another stout, and either patersbier or trippel.
the brew bug is alive still.. now if only the heat would go away. .. and the damn wasps.

I brewed something totally dumb to prove it can be done. LOL.