Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Latest and Greatest (and perhaps even Nastiest?!)



Hola,

Here's the latest in Condo Beer News:

1) The Octane IPA came out JUST ok.  Not our best effort, but as explained 2 posts ago, the temperature in the condo was a little on the high side when the beer was initially conditioning.  It's not bad, its just not an IPA

2) The English Bitter (aka "Naughty Zoot") was given a label...



...and it came out pretty tasty!  It's a refreshing, light beer (or breakfast beer, or porch sippin' beer) that will be perfect in the DC humidity.

[We have about 5 cases of bottled beer in the condo at the moment, and it's truly and beautiful sight!]

3) A few nights ago, we brewed the latest homebrew kit we received and that was a honey wheat beer.  We decided not to rack this beer to secondary for a few reasons:

a) Fellow homebrewers feel this step is really unnecessary.  It only proves useful in instances of making high alcohol-by-volume beers or if you are going to do some sort of dry hopping (which I am a huge fan of, particularly Schlafly's Dry Hopped APA)
b) It's a pain in the arse
c) It's a wheat beer...its supposed to be a little on the cloudy side!

So, we skipped this step this time around

The beer is currently in bottles doing its thang.  We decided to take the pop-culture route and call it "Honey Badger Honey Wheat" (thanks to our friend JR for helping with the design!):



He don't give a $h*t

If you have no idea what I am talking about, click HERE immediately...then be sure to come right on back

And if you ARE familiar wit the nasty a$$ honey badger, I'd probably watch it again anyway

It's cool, I'll wait

4) The heat stick (remember this?)...



...proved to be most successful!  No one died (huzzah!) and we cut our brewing time by about 2 hours (oh the woes of brewing on an electric stove in a condo).  We tried it out on the honey wheat beer, and plan on using it again to finally do our first all grain batch.

5) Finally, our next progressive milestone will be entering into the world of kegging (dun dun dun...)

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