big brew day today. brewed up the abomin-ale snowman returns, transferred tommy's orc to secondary on syrup(fg 1.019), peacemaker to secondary on vanilla (fg 1.026), and el dorado to the kegs (fg 1.023). made the spice mixture for tommy's batch which will be filtered into a keg in 10 days. we also bottled up the rest of the crunchmaker and sb's nut brown. the brew session went fairly smooth, until we ran out of propane, hooked up the backup propane tank and ran out of propane again. we were planning a 90 min boil but ended up around 60 mins. due to this we missed our estimated og of 1.112 and ended up around 1.096. still the highest og beer we've made to do. we finished up the brew session rocking horde mode in gears of war 2. speaking of, we'll need to have a 'beers of war' batch ready next april when gears 3 comes out.



vicious red hue


weighing cinnamon, anise, and orange peel


peacemaker primary aftermath


adding scraped and chopped vanilla beans to peacemaker


-bake