saturday 9/18 :

5gal abomin-ale snowman's revenge : kegged
10gal pumpkin maker : secondary (with pumpkin spiced rum)
10gal chupacabra orc amber : bottled and labeled
5gal reindeer hunter imperial red : brewed
5gal sanitized water : poured all over baker (thumbs down)





ended up with 90 or so chupacabras for tommy's wedding, baker has to drink at least 40 to add a hash mark to his keezer









finally using some of the whole leaf cascade we have stockpiled



picked up an 8gal fermenter from brewmaster's for this one since it should be about 1.116og, which would definitely blow the lid off the regular buckets. we couldn't get a gravity reading on it because of how much foam had formed in the wort, but if anything it will probably end up higher - giving us a 12%ish abv.

-kris

one of my co-workers commissioned us to brew him a holiday beer that he could have for his family xmas party...but he said i could pick whatever kind i wanted to make. and i don't have the kind of restraint baker does to make a delicious beer with a reasonable abv content. so, soon we'll be brewing up the highest gravity (had to get a bigger fermenter for this one), reddest (25% of the grain bill is a mixture of cara-hell and cara-red, which also resulted in the 2nd abominale's bloody color), biggest grain bill for a 5gal batch (almost 22lbs.), and with any luck will end up being a serious 12%abv monster beer. we're calling it the reindeer hunter.

-kris

brewed up pumpkin maker this weekend. the brew session was pretty smooth and we ended up hitting an og of 1.052. hopefully it drops to around 1.014 and hits an abv of 5%. we taste tested tommy's oatmeal raisin cookie amber for his wedding, it has been on the gas for about a week and was pretty damn tasty, just needs more carbonation. should be ready for bottling in 3 weeks. we also racked peacemaker (8.5%) on top of some bourbon in a keg which tasted delicious, and moved the abomin-ale snowmans revenge (10%) to secondary. note to self, don't take a huge whiff from the primary bucket of a 10% beer ever again.

baking 60 oz pumpkin










racking the abomin-ale snowman's revenge


racking peacemaker onto bourbon


- bake