Our first tasting party

Was a huge suggess!!!

Everyone loved the raspberry amber, so apparently the changes we made to the recipe were spot on :) I (erin) love it as well. Patrick really wants to try making it a tad hoppier, so we may dry hop it next time, just to see what it does. But we have a for sure winner either way.

The BrEd was received alright as well, although not as strongly as the raspberry (kind of what we expected). The BrEd is for someone with a definite affinity for that style for sure.

In other news..... We are brewing today! It's time for an ESB (Extra Sexy Brew).
The recipe we're using is:
6lbs amber malt
1lb crystal grain 120L
amarillo hops (1.5oz for starting boil, 0.5oz for final boil, these 9.1%AA)
wyeast 1098 british ale
irish moss


We'll let you know how it turns out :)


edit: brix for ESB: 11.2

We've also come to the conclusion that we need to get back to our weekly meetings. This will be much easier now that I've started a new job and finally have set hours. Tuesdays are now firmly set aside for brewing slash business meetings! I'm sure there will also be some beer chat on monday's as well since that is our new jogging day :) We figured that since we're drinking all this beer we should go jogging together once a week. Right? :)

That's all for now, have a hoppy day :)