We tried out the pumpkin ale the other day. Not our favorite, but still pretty good. The first sip had a strong pumpkin flavor and left a sweet after-taste. The following sips tended to lose the pumpkin flavor, resulting in an odd flavored sweet beer. We ended up making some black and tans, which were mighty tasty.


On 10.29.09 the abomin-ale was moved from primary to secondary.

killed off the dogfish head ipa today. the final glass.


finally have room for the pumpkin ale. should be ready in a week or two. when i pulled out the dfh ipa keg, i noticed a big chunk of mold was forming on the bottom of the keg. it has to be from the beer dripping out of the line out. i'll need to figure something out to keep that from happening again.

we made a holiday spiced ale last night. were calling it "abominale snowman". color and smell was awesome. the boil was pretty weak, so we ended up with about 5 1/2 gallons, resulting in a OG of 1.050 instead of the 1.060 it should have been. oddly enough, this is the first all grain batch we've missed our OG on. a keggle or bigger boil pot sure would relive this type of problem. right now we are using two 5 gallon kettles. preventing a boil-over is a pain in the ass. here are some pictures from last nights brew session.

abominale snowman



racked drunkin pumpkin to a keg, just need to free up a spot in the keezer now.


kris doin' work.


mixed some coconut porter and ipa. oddly delicious

got to finally taste the chocolate coconut porter on tuesday (10/6). it turned out great. filled a growler and took it over to merrill's new place. the porter had a chocolate liquor/rum smell to it. when tasted, it had a nice chocolate flavor, with a hint of coconut. actually, the coconut appears to be more present with little sips. i tried some fresh off the tap today, it tasted even better. i wonder if that could do with the tempature, plus the beer pouring into a glass instead of getting all whipped around in a growler. either way, its delicious.

nobody puts chocolate coconut porter in a corner