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What time is it? BREW TIME!!!

06 Monday Jun 2016

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I guess I should say, what time was it? It was BREW TIME!!! Because we’re not brewing right now, we brewed on Friday, past tense. The exclamation points still stand because I’m still very excited! Why am I so excited? We brewed 15 delicious gallons of my all time favorite beer, our Red Rye-der!

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Monday is for updates

17 Monday Aug 2015

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Good morning and thanks for coming. Guess what guys? We brewed on Friday! I know, I know, it had been a while since we were able to brew, but we’re back on our six week brewing schedule again so we’ll have plenty of updates and pretty pictures to share. You can all rest easy again. Continue reading →

Sometimes you just can’t brew

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…

A chilly Monday update!

17 Monday Nov 2014

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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!

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The bubbles from the sanitizer froze in the bucket and all over the driveway.

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Can you see a face in the frozen sanitizer bubbles?

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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.

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Seth rinsing one of the kegs. Note the ice on the driveway from spillage.

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Red Rye IPA being transferred from secondary into a keg.

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Filtering the Red Rye IPA. It goes from one keg through both filters and into its new home.

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The filtered IPA filling up the keg.

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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…

A short update for a long Monday

10 Monday Nov 2014

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When brewmaster Seth is away, Brian and Justin will play…the PS4! Yes we did get a video game session in, but we also proved that we can be an asset to Regular Guy Brewing. It was up to us to transfer the Red Rye IPA to secondary and dry hop that sucker, and we pulled it off! High fives and flying chest bumps and sprays of champagne filled the crisp night air. I was able to snap a few pictures if you’d like to see them.

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After a VERY vigorous fermentation the Red Rye IPA is ready for secondary and a hearty dry hopping. According to the refractometer, we’re right on track for 6% ABV.

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Brian really likes the Amarillo hops.

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NO BRIAN THAT’S NOT WHAT WE DO! See what happens when Seth is out of town?!?

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Filling the buckets. The Amarillo swirling around in that pretty red beer!

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One more picture, just to rub it in! Beautiful!

Well, that’s it. I’ll spare you the details of the video game session, just know that many beers were drank, a good time was had and Seth was dearly missed.

Until next time…

 

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