A lot has been going on today in our beer world. Scott has been making some great strides in the science/art of kegging homebrew. We've also gotten our calendar together as well, so you can follow our beer's schedules and events we are hosting/attending.
We're so proud of our new Cornelius kegging system, which Scott procured from the local home brew store. We messed up and over-oxidized the Stout when kegging, but its a mixed blessing cause it give us incentive to drink it faster.
Our Racking of our IPA went smoothly. The smell that greeted us opon opening our fermentation bucket was pleasant and without off flavors. We then dry-hopped an ounce of East Kent Goldings, with a 4.6 alpha acid percentage. We'll be doing secondary fermentation for about two weeks, then one more week for bottling (since we only have one keg) before we can give you our review.
In other news, we are planning to start a new side project. Its going to be a slightly sweet, sparkly clean version of an Irish red. We're aiming for around 6% abv, and going for a clean, multi-tiered flavor profile. This is going to be our first project with our all grain brewing setup we expect to be starting up in the near future. The working title is "Red-Headed Stepchild", owing to the offbeat combination of styles, but it may change in the future.
The beer tasting we mentioned before might be delayed until next weekend, owing to some scheduling issues, but that should give anyone who wants to voice their opinion on our sample list to get their preferences heard. We should be back soon with another exciting update on our next brew day.
Stay thirsty fellow brewers,
-Bloomington Beer Bloggers.
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