bottled inki's brown #1

bottled homemade brown ale

ryepa taste test #2

4 days after bottling, rpa is still green. ok, not going to open until at least 8 days!

ryepa bottling day

Bottled the ryepa. accidentally poured a whole bag of one step into the bottling sugar water! Got 3*12 + 5 beers. coulda gotten 2 or 3 more if the siphon hadn't crapped out. wernt werrrr. next time: backfill with more water at ferment time and read the labels of the bags of white stuff at bottling time!

ryepa in secondary, 1st inki brown

Racked rypea to secondary so i can boil the home recipe brown ale tomorrow morning or late tonight. should bottle ryepa in 2 weeksish (8/12). gravity was about 1.015. so far the most behaving brew

brewing my version of big river brown with amber DME instead of the LME. had to measure grains by volume since no scale (6T hopefully equals 2oz). munton's cheap yeast, used DME in starter for first time, hopefuly good.

midwest ryepa, brown ale first taste

yikes! waited a long time to do ryepa. followed midwest recipe pretty closely. 1.045 before yeast. Will bottle on 8/12 maybe. gonna do the primary-only for 3 weeks. i added whirlfloc at 10 minutes, we'll see whether that make a difference.

brown ale turned out good. tried a bottle after 8 days, just fine.

brown ale bottling day

bottled the brown ale after 3 weeks in primary. gravity was still just below 02. we'll see how it turns out. sample tasted good, but i could taste the priming sugar. next boil soon.

brown ale continues, first taste of red

brown ale is at 1.015-02, forgot to get the og, probably was 1.04. i'm on the fence about secondary for this one, so i'm going to take another gravity 2 days in a row and move it to secondary if it seems done. crap, i'm tempted to just rack it anyway so i can get the ryepa in the fermenter! might try irish moss on the ryepa.

red ale that was bottled on 6/15, first taste: very carbonated! not super flavorful. yeasty smell when the bottle was opened. fair bitter dry aftertaste. not syrupy like i was afraid it would be. had a bit of the chill haze. gave a sip to joe, who said "good", as he does to anything that doesn't suck.