Oct 30
What a great day! Started out with biscuits and gravy, watching some football, and bottling my oatmeal stout! So, bottling beer is a lot of sanitizing and making sure everything is clean before you bottle. So, gallons of sanitizing solution later I have things clean and ready to bottle. One important thing is to calculate …
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Oct 23
I’ve brewed this bad boy many times, and I love it! 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 lb crystal malt (I used 60l crystal), 1/2 lb chocolate malt, 1/4 lb roasted …
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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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