feels like it was just yesterday when we started the beer blog. pretty sure no one reads this except for kris, myself, and kyler (think i spelled his name right) i'll make sure he recieves a bottle of peacemaker this christmas as a special thanks. who knows, maybe well have two fans by our 200th post!

bottled off the rest of el dorado today to make room in the keezer for our dry hopped fang maker. took a gravity reading on kimosabe reloads which is currently sitting at 1.020. higher than were hoping for so i gave the fermenters a little swirl and with any luck the final gravity will drop lower. i built a little pump line cleaner this weekend and tested it out while bottling. i am pleased to report that it works exceptionally well. nice for cleaning the keezer and beer gun lines without needing an empty keg to push starsan or oxyclean through.

parts list:

• pump garden sprayer
• #4 worm clamp
• 3/8" - 1/4" barb
• 3/8" - 3/8" coupler
• 3/8" - 3/8" compression fitting (remove nut and ferrule)
• liquid keg post (thanks kevin!)
• teflon tape

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triple threat holiday cheer. abominale snowman's revenge winter spiced ale, reindeer hunter winter spiced imperial red, the peacemaker vanilla bourbon imperial porter. got a special one for the archives, of course...

we brewed up 10 gallons of Kimosabe Reload today. decided to mash with 8 gallons instead of 7 gallons of water so we could mess around with some whirlpool effects, a bad idea as we undershot our estimated 1.061 og and ended up at 1.050. however, by doing this we got a chance to push our mash tun to its limit. during the mash we added some 5.2 buffer which is suppose to be some pretty awesome stuff.









also racked Fang Maker (7% abv) over to a keg and tossed in some dry hops.



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brewin up a re-hash of Kimosabe this weekend, we're calling it Kimosabe Reload. it's pretty much the same recipe as last time but with a slightly increased grain bill which should give it a little higher abv %.

i took a gravity reading from Fang Maker, she's sitting pretty at 1.012. we will probably rack it over to some kegs and start dry hopping on sat.

been looking at a bunch of the latest blichmann equipment lately. a good way to waste more money on some unnecessary yet awesome hardware. only problem is figuring out how to incorporate it with our current setup.

blichmann hopblocker


blichmann hoprocket


blichmann therminator


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