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9 Jun 2013
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Bottling the dark ale and other updates

Hi!

We had a busy day today.  Mikey came by and we bottled the Dead Guy Dark Ale I made two weeks ago.  We got 61 bottles in total and a final specific gravity of 1.012.  This should give us an alcohol content of about 4.4% once bottle conditioning is finished.  Since it’s a dark beer, I want to give it at least three to four weeks before trying it.  Home brewing is a waiting game…

My 61 new friends!

My 61 new friends!

The hops profile calmed down a little bit, which was good because I wasn’t crazy about it when it was just wort.  I think once the beer is given some time to condition in the bottle, it should turn out pretty well.  Hopefully things will all settle together and add some complexities and body to the brew.

After bottling, we also brewed up a porter, but I’ll do a separate post on that later.

In other news, we’ve also created two new sections.  The first one is Wildly Inaccurate Facts About Beer.  To counter this, we’ve also added a section called Wildly Accurate Facts About Beer.  The topics of these sections are pretty self explanatory.

That’s about it for now!

-Chas

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24 May 2013
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New section added!

Howdy!

I’ve added a new section called “Definitions and explanations”.  The purpose of this is to try and keep things accessible.  As Mikey and I learn more and more about the brewing process, we’ll discuss it and write it up.  Where possible, we’ll explain things in the article, but sometimes it doesn’t fit into the article, or if it’s been explained in a previous post we may not go into too much.

Feel free to refer to the new section.

-Chas

5 May 2013
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Brew day, but where’s the beer?

Today being Sunday means it’s Brew Day!

But, in the spirit of self control and ‘oh we really do have a lot of beer already’, there is no brewing today. Chas bottled the Lager back on Monday and my new porter is still sitting in the fermenter.

Next Sunday is Mothers Day. So, not sure what we’re going to do. The porter could be bottled, but chance that it might be worth waiting another week. The IPA will be ready to drink, and I’m pretty excited about that.

Keeping it short. Have a good one, and have a good beer.

-Mikey

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5 May 2013
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Brewing, it’s in the blood

So I got an interesting story from my grandmother recently…

According to her, my great grandparents brewed their own beer and spirits during prohibition times way back when!  Unfortunately my grandmother couldn’t remember too many specifics – I doubt my grandmother would have been born yet by this point either.

Supposedly, my great grandparents were brewing in their apartment’s bathtub, which was relatively common during prohibition days

Everything was going well until their brew started leaking into their downstairs neighbours, which I imagined put at least a temporary stop to things.  What lucky neighbours though to be getting free beer dripping from their ceiling!

Anyway, things finally stopped once prohibition laws were repealed.  Oh well!  At least I can say I have tradition of brewing in my family.

-Chas

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