11 Monday Apr 2016
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beer, brewing, craft, craft beer, guy, homebrew, hot blonde, Jalapeño Blonde Ale, kegging, regular, regular guy brewing, XPA
Hey there fellow beer lovers, it’s Monday! You out there making this Monday your bitch? Kicking so much ass you don’t even have time to consider taking names? No? Me either, it’s Monday, why would we be, right? On the bright side, I have a butt load of pretty pretty pictures to share with you! Let’s skip the how-do-you-do and get right to it! Continue reading
17 Monday Nov 2014
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beer, brewing, carbonation, cold, craft, craft beer, frozen, guy, ice, IPA, keg, kegging, red, Red Rye IPA, regular, regular guy brewing, rye, winter
Happy Monday! Said no one ever. I do, however, have some good news and pretty beer pictures to brighten your day! Friday we got together on a rather cold night to keg our Red Rye IPA. It was a brisk 20 degrees and we had two kegs to fill. Now I know our friends up in the Great White North would consider 20 degrees shorts weather, but after a few hours outside in the cold, playing with water we were ready to call it a night! Ok, no more crying about the weather, let’s see some pictures!
The bubbles from the sanitizer froze in the bucket and all over the driveway.
Can you see a face in the frozen sanitizer bubbles?
Brian is a trooper and true bad ass! He was the one who dipped his arm into the sanitizer to retrieve the sanitized parts we needed. Rumor has it, his arm had to be amputated on Saturday.
Seth rinsing one of the kegs. Note the ice on the driveway from spillage.
Red Rye IPA being transferred from secondary into a keg.
Filtering the Red Rye IPA. It goes from one keg through both filters and into its new home.
The filtered IPA filling up the keg.
Two full kegs being carbonated, it’s a beautiful sight! It’ll be ready to bottle on Friday.
Even though it was incredibly cold, we toughed it out, with a whole bunch of whining (mostly by me, “I’m freezing, I can’t feel my toes” blah blah blah) but the end result was well worth it!
Until next time…
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!
Secondary fermentation is complete and we’re ready to keg!
Brian is doing…something?
Seth is the beer whisperer. They’re having a conversation right now.
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…
28 Monday Jul 2014
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ale, beer, bottling, brewing, carbonation, craft, craft beer, extra, extra pale ale, guy, keg, kegging, pale, regular, regular guy brewing
Friday night, as usual, the Regular Guys got together to do something brew related. This time we had our EPA all carbonated and ready to be bottled. We’ve brewed this recipe three times now, and with minor adjustments along the way, I think we may have nailed it folks! She’s a gorgeous beer.
See I told you.
Here’s our night in pictures, enjoy!
Here’s our EPA all carbonated and ready to go. Seth had a “hand” in the bottling process, get it?!? I’m hilarious!
The bottles are eagerly awaiting the EPA. They’re so excited! You can tell if you look closely.
The EPA has a beautiful thick foamy head.
For all you Brian fans out there, he’s giving the eyebrow of approval. That’s how you know it’s good!
Seth, the bottling filling champion of the world. He has a trophy to prove it.
I AM THE CAP MASTER!!!
I was trying to look super manly, but I came off looking more like Garth Algar. It’s Wayne’s World!
Ahh yes! Freshly capped beer ready to share, or keep for ourselves if we feel like being stingy.
Well, that’s it. Go back to work.
Until next time…
21 Monday Jul 2014
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ale, beer, blonde, blotting, brewing, craft, craft beer, dry hop, extra, extra pale ale, fermentation, filtered, filtering, guy, hop, hops, hot blonde, jalapeño, kegging, pale, pale ale, regular, regular guy brewing, secondary fermentation
It seems just as we say hello to the weekend, we sadly have to say goodbye. The Regular Guys had a pretty productive Friday night. We got together and bottled our Hot Blonde Jalapeño Blonde Ale and kegged our EPA. Then we had a well deserved night out for research and development of course!
Let’s start with the Hot Blonde. Lately we’ve been tinkering with our recipes, taking everyone’s comments and suggestions to heart and combining them with our own ideas and meeting somewhere in the middle. We then make minor adjustments to our recipes and see how it turns out. The Hot Blonde may have been a little too spicy and we’ve been trying to figure out exactly at what point all that spiciness comes in. Well, we figured it out and an incredibly delicious beer was born!
How about some pictures? Ok!
We know this isn’t a “proper” glass for a blonde ale, but we aren’t picky. This is hand model extraordinaire Brian showing off the color and clarity of our brew. She’s a pretty beer!
This is also Brian enjoying the Hot Blonde. You can tell he approves by his eyebrow.
Let the bottling commence!
Seth is a pro. He’s the only one we trust to fill our bottles. I’ve tried, and was really bad at it.
Up next is the unnamed EPA. We’ve brewed this beer three times now and we’re hoping this version will be the recipe we can stick with.
Let’s picture shall we? We shall!
Secondary is complete and by the aroma, the dry hop went splendidly!
Brewmaster Seth is overseeing the transfer of the EPA to keg number one.
Brian is keeping a close eye on the filters.
Here’s a closer look at the filters. There’s some ridiculously good looking beer in there!
And finally, the filtered EPA is being transferred into keg number two. It is now being carbonated and we’ll get to test it out on Friday!
I hope you all have a fantastic week or at least a tolerable one!
Until next time…
Regular Guy Brewing 