Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Brewing Day

IPA

7lbs. Light malt extract
1 1/2 lbs. 80L Crystal
1 lb. Victory malt
2 oz. Nugget, 13.6% all the way from the grain sparge
2 oz Nugget, 60 minutes
2 oz Willamette, 4.5%, 30 minutes
1 oz. Goldings, 4%, 10 minutes
1 oz. Goldings, during cooling
Irish Ale yeast, #1084

Half the brewpot was full of hops after the sparge. It should be nice
and hoppy. My goal, I finally realized yesterday, is to fill the
kegs...all of them. We are planning on cheating a little, though,
because we are going to fill two of them with water in case of
emergency.

Next on the list is another lager, possibly our first 10 gallon all
grain batch, if we have the time this weekend.

Also in the works is the very dangerous idea of putting a strong beer
in a keg, and the not so dangerous idea of putting up a Marzen for
Oktoberfest. As we get closer to summer, we will put together a Wit, or
maybe just a Wheat, and some other, more perishable beers.

Cheers!

2 comments:

Ms. Hill said...

I am commenting for two reasons: the first is that my own out-of-school email is out, so I can't communicate with you, and the second is to ask how many kegs we actually have. I keep on forgetting to count them when I'm in the cold room.
la

Jeffrey J. Sparks said...

We have 13 kegs. If we fill two with water, then that leaves 11 kegs to fill with beer. That is a lot of beer.

lj