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A FeBREWary Session!

13 Monday Feb 2017

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ale, beer, blonde, brewing, craft, craft beer, guy, homebrew, hot blonde, jalapeño, Jalapeño Blonde Ale, regular, regular guy brewing

See what I did there? I used BREW instead of BRU in the word February. Because we brewed in February. Get it? I’m so clever and original. Pretty sure no one has ever spelled February like that before. I’m a laugh riot. 

So, if you’re a regular reader of our little blog, my nerdiness should come as no surprise. What might come as a surprise is that the weather in February was warm enough to pull off a brew session! We were beyond excited. See…

Brian is beyond excited.

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It’s a Tuesday morning update!

26 Tuesday May 2015

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ale, beer, blonde, brewing, craft, craft beer, guy, homebrew, hot blonde, jalapeño, regular, regular guy brewing

It’s the first day of the work week for most, so it feels like a Monday but it’s actually a Tuesday. This is good for two reasons:

1) Your work week is only four days long instead of five.

And

B. It’s time for a Regular Guy Brewing Monday (Tuesday) morning update babies!

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It’s Monday, let’s update!

06 Monday Oct 2014

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ale, beer, blonde, brewing, camping, carbonation, craft, craft beer, D'Arcy's Pint, disc, disc golf, dudes, fermentation, fire, golf, guy, Hot, Hot Blonde Jalapeño Blonde Ale, IL, jalapeño, keg, regular, regular guy brewing, Scheels, secondary, Springfield

This Monday morning update is a little different than the other updates. It’s not all about brewing or brewing activities. All I can say is, I have a DAFCAE hangover.

What’s DAFCAE? It’s the Dude’s Annual Fall Camping Adventure Extravaganza! Every Fall the Regular Guys go camping and engage in all kinds of manly activities. We drink a ton of beer, play a ridiculous amount of disc golf, have massive bon fires and burn random items, shoot things with guns all while eating unapologetically. It’s a weekend of male bonding at its finest.

Seth and I did manage to get some beer related work done on Friday before we took off to the great outdoors. Have a look.

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Secondary was complete for the Hot Blonde Jalapeño Blonde Ale so it was time to keg that sucker! Here it is going into keg one.

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The beer leaves keg one and then gets filtered.

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Then it enters keg two where it’ll be carbonated. She’s a pretty beer!

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We also put some stain on our serving station.

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Here’s a closer look at the top. Turned out nice!

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What our setup will look like on the day of the competition.

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Little bit closer.

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Even closer yet. The two stands on the side will be for our vote collection containers, one for each beer we’re bringing to the competition.

We also finally transferred the Bacon and Brown Sugar Storter to primary fermentation and pitched the yeast. I have no pictures of that though. Sorry.

Want to see some pictures from DAFCAE? I’m going to post them anyway so you might as well be into it.

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Seth brought some wood, this was gone the first night.

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Yes that’s a spice rack.

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Pallets make good bon fire material.

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Not even sure what we’re burning here.

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Posing with honest Abe Lincoln at Scheels. Scheels is probably the biggest sporting goods store ever. It has a ferris wheel inside.

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Hanging out at our favorite restaurant, D’Arcy’s Pint. Their horseshoe sandwich is actually made by angels. It’s the best thing you will ever eat in your life. Ever.

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We found this kitten crying in the woods while we were disc golfing. She was a sweet little thing. After a while of holding her and passing her around to toss our shots she jumped down. We thought she was going to run away,  but she followed us through seven holes of disc golf. When we stopped to throw, she stopped and waited. So damn cute. She needed food and water desperately so we took her to a no kill shelter near by to get cleaned up and checked out. The ladies were gushing over her and swore she would be adopted really quick.

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We named her Simcoe after our favorite hop variety.

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She took a liking to Seth.

I don’t have very many pictures of our camping adventure. When you’re drinking and having fun, the pictures kind of go to the wayside. Maybe I’ll remember to snap some more next year, but probably not though!

I’m going to dedicate this trip to our newest member of the RGB crew. Our Regular Cat, Simcoe.

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We hope you find a loving family and have a happy life.

Well, now it’s back to the daily grind, back to reality, back to the day jobs.

Until next time…

A new experience for RGB!

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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ale, Apple, beer, blonde, brewing, craft, craft beer, Grove, guy, Hot, Hot Blonde Jalapeño Blonde Ale, jalapeño, Porter, regular, regular guy brewing, review, reviewed, reviews, smoked, Smokey, Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter

This week, like most weeks, started off with an update about our brewnanigans (yes I just combined brewing with shenanigans, deal with it!) that took place over the weekend. This week, unlike most weeks, comes with exciting news, an experience the Regular Guys haven’t had yet.

Let’s rewind to two Wednesdays ago.

It was a day like most other early September days, incredibly hot, terribly humid. After a long day of work I found myself at a FedEx with two packages. One package addressed to Nick from Nick’s Beer Blog the other to Lee from Beerin’it. I was sending our beer out for sampling and review. This is something that we’ve never done before. Sure we’ve given friends and family and a few local strangers samples of our beer, and while we value their opinions, it tends to be ever so slightly biased. Anyway, finally we were going to get an honest review from people who know beer.

Thursday. I didn’t think much about the delivery as it wasn’t going to arrive at the destinations until Friday. My only concern was that the packages would make it in one piece.

Friday. I checked the status of the delivery on the FedEx website every hour on the hour. I gave updates to Nick and Lee every time I checked until finally it had been delivered. Then I proceeded to bug them more about when they were going to sample our beer! Not my most professional behavior, I must admit. Nick came right out and said he wouldn’t be sampling until early the following week. Lee put his in the refrigerator right away, but kept me on pins and needles until last Sunday when he posted this to Twitter.

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The complement and beautiful photo were well worth the wait! I felt like a giant weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Someone from a different geographical area enjoyed and appreciated our beer! It’s a wonderful feeling. You can read the full review here.

Now Nick kept us waiting a bit longer, but we just so happened to send our beer to him when he had five other beers to review. Sucks to be him right? So I did get an idea of how his review was going to go when he sent me a direct message on Twitter last Tuesday that went a little something like this.

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One of the best porters he’s ever had? That’s a huge compliment coming from a guy who reviews beer all the time! You can read the full review here.

Two beers positively reviewed from two different parts of the country, not a bad start for Regular Guy Brewing! Nick has two more reviews coming, one for our Hot Blonde Jalapeño Blonde Ale and one for our currently unnamed and not quite finished EPA. I’ll share those as they become available.

Until next time…keep the shiny side up!

Want an update? No? Too bad!

15 Monday Sep 2014

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ale, Apple, beer, blonde, brewing, carbonation, craft, craft beer, fermentation, Grove, guy, Hot, jalapeño, keg, kegging, Porter, regular, regular guy brewing, secondary, smoked, Smokey, Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter

Another weekend has come and gone too fast. At least we got a little work done on Friday. We have a homebrew competition coming up in October and we are taking five gallons of our Hot Blonde Jalapeño Blonde Ale and five gallons of our Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter. It’s a pretty neat concept, it’s more of an informal competition, but there will be about 200 tasters. That’s a lot of exposure!

Anyway back to Friday. Secondary on our Smokey Grove was complete so it was time to keg. Once the kegging was finished, we snuck a taste of the leftovers. I have to say, this was by far our best batch. The smokiness and the apple sweetness were perfectly balanced. Our last batch was a little heavy on the smoke, but this one was damn near perfect. Kudos to Seth for not only creating an amazing recipe, but also for achieving the proper smoke flavor to balance the whole thing out.

I don’t have many pictures to share this week, but here they are!

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Secondary fermentation is complete and we’re ready to keg!

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Brian is doing…something?

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Seth is the beer whisperer. They’re having a conversation right now.

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Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter into the keg. Carbonate and let it sit until the competition. It’s going to be tough to not sneak a few pints!

Well, that’s it! Another brew in the books! I hope you all have a great week. Big brew weekend coming up with StolzeStyle Brewing, our super top secret brew is on deck!

Until next time…

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