Posts Tagged ‘ stout ’
So, I didn’t give my friends a lot of time to decide if they were going to brew or not. I decided Saturday morning that if I am going to get another brew in this year I’m going to have to do it tomorrow. We have a trip planned and Christmas to deal with so [ READ MORE ]
Ahh the Russian Imperial Stout. I have been reading up on the history of this wonderful brew and here is what I have found. In the year 1796 Thrale’s Brewery in London created a beer that was meant to satisfy the Czars of Russia. They had tastes for the finer things in life, the best champagne [ READ MORE ]
So, my airlock blew out… here is the stout on my blow-off tube! [ READ MORE ]
The Imperial Stout is now fermenting at a break-neck pace. The co2 coming off of it smells good (not sour) and the kraesen is looking really scary good (or just scary depending on how you see it…) Now, I bought some extra yeast that is going to be coming to my door today with another all-grain [ READ MORE ]
Okay, no pictures like I promised. Jake needed to get back home so we needed to rush. It all went really well, only got 47 bottles out of it… which is actually more than I figured we would get. I do have another issue though. The stout has not started fermenting at any reasonable rate. I have [ READ MORE ]
Wow, that went textbook! Sorry, I don’t have pictures of the steps this time… Jeremy and I spent our extra time wiring the garage for cat-5 so we could watch the football on a mythtv frontend (my laptop). Next brew I think i’m actually going to run the wire nicely (not from my basement window to [ READ MORE ]