Monday, April 28, 2008

Clone Ale #21

Rain.
Not sure how I feel about it. Love it sometimes, hate it others.
Camping - been in warm rain and hated it, freezing rain and loved it.
The house - wanted to work in the yard tonight, but it's raining, which my new plants really need, so.
Decided to rebrew the Clone Ale tonight. Extract-based again. Total last-minute decision, but the CFO's gone this evening, and I feel guilty for having all empty fermenters.

Monday, April 21, 2008

SNPA Clone #20 => Clone Pale Ale #20

Wowsa.
After only two weeks, I'm drinking the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone #20 I made.
I like it so much, I've renamed it Clone Pale Ale - keeping with the Star Wars naming theme, and the word "clone" denotes an attempt at recreating a commercial beer, in the homebrewing community.
Anyway, this started out way too low for my recipe (OG = 1.040), and FG was around1.013, therefore ABV = 3.5%. Great lawnmower beer, and can't wait to make this my house pale ale, esp since it's an easy extract recipe with only a primary.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Sam Adams + Chunks of Glass = ??

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2008/04/07/daily8.html

Scary.

The affected products are embossed on the base of the bottles with the following marking: The letter "N" followed by the number "35" followed by the letters "OI".

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Batches 19 and 20

You may have noticed that my batch number has decreased on the right.
(You dind't notice - you don't love me.)
Well, I took out all the experimental small batches and the cider and mead.
All Beer Now.
Anyway, I made #19 Centennium Falcon IPA, and #20 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone today.
Let's see how they turn out.

The Alderaan Alt is nice. Nice 'n bitter. Funny how it's a weird beer, then you remind yerself - it's a German pale ale, and yer like wow that's good.
Bane Stout's nice and kegged too. Been havin' that. It's a lil strong, but like I care. Went well with last night's flourless chocolate cake.
Then there's the Fingernail Ginger Ale. Man that stuff's gingery, but that's what we were going for. Next time, needs more body (more caramel) to balance it out, and maybe a secondary with fresh ginger?

Oh, and the numbered batches. Unless I get a large number of "no" votes soon, I'm gonna stick with the numbers prepended to the name. Even if it's something I've made before. (See #19 Centennium Falcon IPA above).