Black Cascadian Ale #84

Black Cascadian Ale #84

7# LME
0.5# C80L
0.5# Carafa III
0.25# Chocolte Malt
1.0# Cane Sugar

0.75 oz Columbus - 60 min
1.50 oz Cascade - 20 min
1.50 oz Cascade - 10 min
1.00 oz Cascade - 0 min
1.00 oz Cascade - Dry Hop

Safale US-05

OG = 1063
IBUs = 60
FG =
ABV =

Notes:
Same as the Centnnium Falcon - no chiller used.
All the Cascade hops are from the Mosquito Hopyard.
Didn't add the sugar (10 oz Belgian candi + 6 oz cane) until one week later. Dissolved it in boiling water first.
I think I'll dry hop with some of the Hopyard's Centennial, too.

SPOILED AND DUMPED. :(

Centennium Falcon #83

Centennium Falcon #83

12# 2-row
1.0# Crystal 40L

1.25 oz Centennial - 60 min
1.25 oz Centennial - 20 min
1.25 oz Centennial - 10 min
1.00 oz Centennial - 1 min
1.50 oz Centennial - Dry Hop

Safale US-05

OG = 1060
IBUs = 86
FG =
ABV =

Notes:
Didn't use a chiller at all on this one. Left it in the cool night for a few hours, then overnight in the basement.

2010 Hop Harvest #2

Cascade 1# 11oz -> 6.5oz
Centennial 3.5oz -> 1oz

Happy Birthday, Nedward

Nedward Flanders is two years old today!
Check it.

Today the solventy taste is dissipated.
Aroma: Definitely has the horse hair aroma. No hops.
Appearance: Orange. Good head retention. (Quickly force-carbed in a plastic bottle.)
Taste: Not a lot of sour. Touch of sweet. Not bitter.
Palate: Dry, astringent?
Overall: Sticks with ya some. Makes ya wonder if it's too funked. Maybe it is and MAYBE IT IS. But in a good way. Might have to bottle some and see what that does.

2010 Hop Harvest #1

Picked 3.5 oz Cascades from the Mosquito Hopyard a couple weeks ago.

After fermenting the Rauchbier in the kegerator, the kegerator stopped working.

Girard Hopyard 2010 #2

Planted some new Cascade 'zhomes from the Mosquito Hopyard.
And moved the Centennial over to the dead/never grew Goldings area.
Then I added mulch on each plant.

Here's a "map" of the yard. X means there's a plant growing.

	_XXXXXXXXX		Cascade
Centennial	__XXX	X__XX	Chinook
		XXXXX	Zeus

Mulberries!

All around the mulberry bush....
I picked 2.5# last night. And there's many more to go!
Wondering what style or yeast I should use this year.
Thinking Belgian....

...and 3# more equals 5.5#. gonna be a berry-y one.

Perry #82

Perry #82

5 gal (20 one quart bottles) of Gerber Pear Juice
1 tsp Fermax yeast nutrient

One sachet of Nottingham Ale yeast

OG = 1055
FG =
ABV =

Girard Hopyard 2010 #1

Still 14 out of 26 rhizomes active.
Need to get some borders around them to keep the gardener from mowing them.

Here's a "map" of the yard. X means there's a plant growing.

Centennial	_XX_X	_XX_X	Cascade
Golding	_____	X__XX	Chinook
		_XXXXX	Zeus

It's the same as last year. So no surprises. The tallest one is the back corner Cascade at about 3 feet!