Kegging and such

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!

If you brew it, they will come

07 Monday Apr 2014

Posted by Justin in Brewing

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Apple, beer, craft beer, Porter, smoked

It was a chilly Friday night. Dark, damp and dreary (pause for effect). Three Regular Guys set out to do what no other man has ever done before. They would brew…beer!

Ok so brewing beer isn’t revolutionary, but what we brewed just might be. WARNING : You are about to view beer porn. If you are in a room with a closed door and value said door, you may want to open that door because this picture has the potential to blow doors down.

That’s right babies, we brewed our Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter. Need another picture?

There you go. Yeah, that’s real live smoke in the background for amazing visual effect. You probably have questions and we would answer those questions in a conversation that would go like this:

You: “If you just brewed this beer on Friday how is it already fermented, carbonated and ready to drink?”

Regular Guys: “Oh sweet innocent you, we’re magic, don’t ask questions.”

Then you drink it and rejoice.

This obviously isn’t our first batch of Smokey Grove, but we did do a few things differently. We used a different type of apple this time and put some in the boil and will use some in secondary.