Oct 30
What a great day! Started out with biscuits and gravy, watching some football, and bottling my oatmeal stout! Plus my wife is hot and a total babe and I’m madly in love with her, so having her always puts me in a good mood! So, bottling beer is a lot of sanitizing and making sure …
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Oct 23
I’ve brewed this bad boy many times, and I love it! My wife is also excited to have some of this, as she loves stouts! It’s been 3 years since I’ve last brewed (11/3/2019), so I’m long overdue! This classic Charlie Papazian recipe calls for 1lb of quick oats, 4 lbs of 6 row, 1/2 …
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Dec 21
Saturday night I finally got around to bottling my beer. I had help from some of my kids. So, before I could begin I had to clean the kitchen- can’t have an unclean environment when bottling beer! Bottles got bleached, then sanitized as I didn’t know what could have been in my bottles given how …
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Nov 03
I’m sick of not being able to brew beer. So, despite some horrible personal news that should have derailed all my plans, I pushed on and brewed two batches of beer. Well, one batch of beer and a mead that I’ve been meaning to make for over a year. The mead recipe: 15lbs honey, yeast …
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Oct 20
I bottled the beer tonight, with the help of my friend Rob. I also helped him bottle two beers he’s been sitting on since March. At least they’re beers that mature well with age! Final gravity came out to be 1.024, which would give me an 8.7% alcohol by volume. Nice! Of course, we tasted …
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Oct 12
Gearing up for a beer tasting party next month and need to cap it off with a good stout. Was planning on doing my old stand by Oatmeal Stout, which I love, but I wanted to do something bigger. Something better. Something…. imperial! So, here’s what I came up with for a recipe: 2 lbs …
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Jan 06
Bottled the stout tonight after a 2 hour delay, thanks to uncontrollable circumstances. Final gravity came to 1.020 for an alcohol percent of 5.00% even. Got 94 12oz bottles and two 22oz bottles out of it. Should be ready to drink by my party on the 15th. Looking forward to it.
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Dec 28
Went to F. H. Steinbart’s yesterday and bought ingredients to make 10 gallons of oatmeal stout. Ingredients: 2lbs of rolled oats, 8lbs of Six Row malt, 1lb of crystal malt, 1lb of chocolate malt, 1/2lb of roasted barley, 7lbs of dark malt extract syrup, and some Wyeast 1084 Irish ale yeast. I had the gypsum …
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Oct 30
Tonight I decided to bottle all my beer, which is my Pilsener I’ve had in my fridge for 2 months, and the Oatmeal Stout I did a week and a half ago with my friend Mike. Bottled the Pilsener first, getting 46 out of it. Final gravity came out to be 1.012, giving me an …
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Oct 21
Last week my friend Mike and I went to Steinbart’s to check it out, as he’s never been there before. Of course, I can’t walk in there without getting something, so we left there with ingredients to make an oatmeal stout. Now, I’ve made this particular stout before, and it turned out awesome! This time, …
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