14 Monday Sep 2015
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Apple Smoked Porter, beer, brewing, craft, craft beer, guy, homebrew, IPA, Porter, Red Rye IPA, regular, regular guy brewing
My brain is mush on this Monday morning. Too many late nights and early mornings over the weekend, and I have nothing fun or witty or interesting to say at this point. I’m sure there are plenty of you out there that feel the same way today. So let’s get right to it then shall we? Continue reading
08 Tuesday Sep 2015
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beer, Breese Fall Festival, brewing, craft, craft beer, guy, homebrew, Hot Blonde Jalapeño Blonde Ale, Recess Brewing, Red Rye IPA, regular, regular guy brewing, Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter
Hey everybody! I hope you had a lovely and safe Labor Day weekend. Now that everyone back to work from their three day weekends and probably feeling pretty rough, let’s reflect on our busy brewing weekend! Continue reading
31 Monday Aug 2015
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beer, Breese Fall Festival, brewing, craft, craft beer, guy, homebrew, IPA, Porter, Red Rye IPA, regular, regular guy brewing, Smokey Grove Apple Smoked Porter
Ladies and gentlemen, beer lovers of all age…over 21 years of age, I have some very exciting news for you on this muggy Monday morning!
We. Brewed. Beer. Continue reading
22 Monday Dec 2014
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beer, brewing, Christmas, craft, craft beer, guy, holiday, holidays, IPA, red, Red Rye IPA, regular, regular guy brewing, rye, thanksgiving, wedding, weddings
Hey everybody in blog land, doing all the blog stuff you do. How are you? It’s been a while. Too long? Maybe, but hey, life is that way. What a great segue into the topic of this blog post! Brian, Seth and I would love to give you a blog post full of brewing pictures and beer porn every Monday, but sometimes when you’re trying to coordinate three very busy schedules, things just don’t work out.
Let’s put together a time line shall we?
October 24th, 2014 – we brewed our Red Rye IPA. We hit our target numbers, efficiency was great and the session went relatively smooth.
November 7th, 2014 – Brewmaster Seth was out of town and it was up to Brian and I to transfer the Red Rye IPA to secondary and do a little dry hopping.
November 14th, 2014 – dry hopping had gone long enough and we filtered and kegged our Red Rye IPA.
November 21st, 2014 – we bottled our Red Rye IPA and had our first taste of the carbonated masterpiece and have been enjoying it ever since.
November 28th, 2014 – we wanted to get a brew session in, but it was the weekend after Thanksgiving and our Brewmaster had family stuff going on. No big deal.
December 5th, 2014 – we wanted to get a brew session in, but Recess Brewing had just opened up and felt it was pretty important to pay them a visit on their opening week. Plus it’s beer, so…
December 12th, 2014 – Brian had a Christmas party to attend. When the brewery is in Brian’s garage, brewing becomes a little complicated.
December 19th, 2014 – I had a bachelor party to attend on Saturday and there was no way I could expect to spend Friday night brewing and all day Saturday drinking beer and playing golf and hanging out with friends until the wee hours of the morning.
December 22nd, 2014 – this is today. Now let’s chat about future brewing possibilities.
December 26th, 2014 – this is the Friday after Christmas. Probably not going to happen.
January 2nd, 2015 – I have a wedding rehearsal and dinner and a wedding the next day so count me out. Brian and Seth could possibly pull together a session without me though…nudge nudge, wink wink!
January 9th, 2015 – this is realistically the next possible day we can brew. That is if the weather cooperates and it’s not so cold our pumps will freeze up.
So we haven’t brewed a beer since October 24th, haven’t done anything brewing related since November 21st and probably won’t be able to brew until January 9th. Wow! Am I having brewing withdrawals? Yes I am!
Until next time…
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…
Regular Guy Brewing 