30 Monday Nov 2015
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beer, brewing, Chocolate Milk Stout, craft, craft beer, extra pale ale, guy, homebrew, pale ale, regular, regular guy brewing, stout
Ladies and gentlemen the Regular Guys have another successful brew in the books, this time we made a Chocolate Milk Stout. This is a special brew, not only because we’re going to age half of it in a bourbon barrel, but this beer is being made specifically for Brian’s lovely wife, Kate. Continue reading
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…
14 Monday Apr 2014
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ale, beer, blonde, brewing, carbonated, carbonation, craft, craft beer, fermentation, fermenting, guy, hot blonde, jalapeño, pale, pale ale, Porter, regular, regular guy brewing, secondary
Friday night we got together and kegged our Hot Blonde Jalapeño Blonde Ale for carbonation.
(In case you forgot what this pretty lady looks like)
When we opened the fermenter, what a delight for the senses it was! It was a beautiful hay colored brew. The smell of the jalapeños really came through and the flavor was incredible despite not being carbonated. I can only assume that if your beer is enjoyable before carbonation, it’s going to set the world on fire when it is!
We may have some exciting news about the Hot Blonde that I’ll fill you in on after it happens. Easy biggin’ you’ll find out on Friday.
We also transferred our yet to be named Extra Pale Ale to secondary and dry hopped for that extra boost of hops aroma and flavor. This beer has only been fermenting for two weeks and I wanted to sample it already! Wonderful aroma, citrusy and floral. I’m excited for this beer!
We didn’t do much to our Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter because it’s only been fermenting for a week, just watched her bubble away and make alcohol.
We also made a schedule for our next three beers we’re going to brew. A couple of redemption beers and something brand new! Stay tuned because it’s going to get exciting!
11 Tuesday Jun 2013
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ale, beer, blonde, brew, brewing, guy, jalepeno, pale, pale ale, recipe, regular, regular guy brewing
As all two of our followers know, we brewed Friday night and things went well! Don’t get me wrong, we had a few hiccups, but HEY! It had been a while, we were a little rusty! In the end all of our ingredients combined and made BEER! Sweet glorious beer! Ten gallons of sweet glorious beer!
We are always looking for new suggestions and recipes to try out, so if any of our fellow brewers out there have a favorite recipe, drop us a line. If anything, we could always brew our family renowned jalepeno blonde again!
Until next time…
24 Sunday Mar 2013
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ale, apologies, apologize, beer, brewing, guy, I'm sorry, milk, milk stout, pale, pale ale, regular, regular guy brewing, stout
I must start with a big fat I’m sorry! I know all of our two followers were anxiously awaiting the pictures and/or video I promised for Friday night’s brew session. I’m not going to beat around the bush or try to sugar coat it.
I cannot tell a lie…I got to drinking and I forgot all about it. I dropped the ball, and I hope the two of you can forgive me.
As far as Friday night’s session is concerned, we kicked some ass! Seth’s brew tech stuff is an out-of-this-world creation! Brewing is so efficient now! As far as the beer, I’m pretty excited about the new Pale Ale recipe. It’s hops aroma and bold taste were a great start to what will hopefully be an amazing beer! This will also be our first time dry hopping. Exciting stuff!
On a different note, we opened up our Milk Stout. While still a bit premature, it had great flavor. It was smooth and thick and it was black as night! Another couple weeks and she’ll be ready.
In summation, I apologize for not keeping my word with pictures and/or video and we had another successful brew day!
Until next time.
Regular Guy Brewing 