Last night, I decided to crack open another bottle of the Special Bitter. While my palate isn’t very well trained, I think I detected a bit of tartness- at first I thought it was due to tannin extraction, but chatting with the guys, the consensus is that the beer might be infected. I hope not- [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2008 by mapu
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Well, we’ve been drinking the Mild Ale for a little while, and it seems to be aging nicely. I do need to get some bottles over to some of the other Beer League guys for their assessment. last night, though, I dropped by my neighbor’s house with a bottle of the Mild, a bottle of [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2008 by mapu
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I finally decided it was time to bottle the Special Bitter- especially since it has been sitting in the bottling bucket since I repitched. Repitching didn’t do too much, but zee mentioned that I should have created a starter, and possibly let the started go for a little while to build up some alcohol tolerance [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by mapu
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I finally impulsively ordered a barley crusher. I am picking up a 50 lb bag of 2-row malt, and I have a few pounds of specialty grains- none of which are crushed. So- unless I want to truck down to snafui’s every time I need to brew- I needed a way to do it myself. [...]
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by mapu
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Well- finally a nice day where I have little else to do but brew! I am brewing an American Pale Ale from the BCS book of course. Luckily, I checked the errata page and found that the hops amounts printed in the book were incorrect. Right now, I have 6 minutes left to mash-in. I’ll [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by mapu
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