xfer day

so this beer is boggling. like extremely. argh boggling. we are now thinking that our initial brix reading must have been inaccurate, because the reading we got tonight it 7.5. that makes absolutely zero sense. everything looks totally normal. it smells amazing. tiny taste test is right where we want it to be. what the heck is going on with this beer?

#PerplexityCity

Brew day! Bottle day! It's a holiday!

no work for either of us today so we decided to do beer related things. oh so much better than work. re-brewing the BP, with a few changes. also going to bottle the previous batch of BP.

New BP:
1/4 lb black patent
1/4 lb crystal 40L
1/4 lb chocolate
1/4 lb honey
6 lbs pale malt
2 lbs dry amber malt
.05 oz Willamette hops 60 min (4.7% AA)
1 oz Nugget hops 30 min (11% AA)
Wyeast 1469 W. Yorkshire

heating the honey up this time. still gonna add it to the wort. we'll add it when its time for the wort to cool.

brix: 11.3. Which gives us an initial gravity of 1.046. Brew pal predicted 1.074, sooooooooooooooo, yeah. Guess we'll see what happens :)

Total bottles from the previous batch = 23.5 22oz bottles.

BP

So our final brix is 10.8 which gives us a final gravity of 1.028. Still too high, technically, but we're going to re-brew this one next week. We are thinking that the honey is likely the culprit and we plan to play around with it a little next week. We will likely try to heat the honey up before adding it to the wort and possibly use less (a small taste test revealed that this beer is sweet, more so than we want). Thinking maybe 25 % less honey, heated up, and this should be one damn amazing beer. If you are at Beer as Art on Sunday April 1st you will get to taste it ;)




so, as previously mentioned, Beer as Art is coming up!!! Yay!!! I know you're just as excited as we are, or maybe close :) if you would like to come please continue reading!

This is an event where local home brewers celebrate their art, that of which is fantastic and marvelous beer!

Location: Viking Fire Foundry in Ballard, 4710 Ballard Ave NW

This event is 21+ only, must have valid ID.

This event is RSVP only.

This event is entry on a suggested donation (last year 10$). Very suggested. We don't get paid for this. You can help pay to keep this thing going!


VERY IMPORTANT!!

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY IF YOU PLAN ON ATTENDING:

1) you MUST rsvp to raincitybrew@yahoo.com and CC erin@mtolympusbrewing.com. If you do not rsvp, you will not get in. If you do not rsvp EARLY, you may not get in. This event sells out every time. AN RSVP VIA THIS FACEBOOK EVENTS PAGE IS NOT AN RSVP!

2) if you are unsure of going, PLEASE DO NOT rsvp. This takes away a spot for someone who really wants to go. My own mother was not able to get in last year.

3) if you are coming, PLEASE have a designated driver or plan for getting home. We all get pretty tipsy here, let's not forget.

4) if you rsvp with the purest intentions of coming and find yourself unable to come, PLEASE UN-rsvp so that someone on the waiting list can take your spot.



Are you an artist? Are you interested in making art inspired by beer to be on display at this event? Email erin@mtolympusbrewing.com for details.

Are you a DJ? Do you have your own gear? Are you interested in dj'ing this event? Email erin@mtolympusbrewing.com for details.