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Both of my marzen kegs kicked at my friends' Oktoberfest over the weekend. So last night I finally cleaned those kegs, and the line. Also I decided I had enough of the roggenbier, so I put the rest of that in a growler so I could put 2 new beers on tap (have another party this weekend, so need...

Update: The pH, efficiency, volume, and OG were all spot on their respective targets and the carboys are ripping already. Not bad considering we had 2 boil-overs, lautering was slow as hell, and we kind of guestimated the boil time based on how much we needed to get it down.

I just keg it and purge with CO2 as normal, but then disconnect the gas and shove it in the back on the kegerator.

Kegged the Lithuanian farmhouse ale and oatmeal stout. Developing quite the supply of brews now, so looking to chop something off my remaining (and fairly ambitious) brew schedule. Luckily I have 2 events coming up, so that should knock the volume down a bit.

Looks like I haven't updated in quite awhile... 4158 +5 gallons sahti +5 gallons roggenbier +5 gallons oatmeal stout +5 gallons Lithuanian farmhouse ale +5 gallons Belgian strong dark ale = 4183

Over the last week or so: I've kicked the sahti, cleaned the keg and tapline it was on, kegged and tapped the roggenbier, shipped out the last of my porter for a comp (it already got silver in one), prepped and brewed up a "Kaimiskas" (Lithuanian farmhouse ale) using Omega Jovaru for the first...

Drinking sahti and reading at camp earlier.

Different book in the pic, but I read that one too. This is my sahti. Every year I try to make it a little more authentic. This time I was able to use actual Finnish bakers yeast. Never used the juniper branches, just berries. It's one of the things I'm looking to do next time.

Super busy brew related weekend. Won judges choice at the southern Vermont homebrew fest: kicked 2/3 things I brought while there, and the other one kicked at a friends house that night. So everything got cleaned, which in turn freed up a line for the sahti. So I racked that pretty quick to...

So, tooting my horn a bit. I won best professionally judged beer again, this time for my porter (which had vanilla and coffee added). Summer HomeBrew Festival

Think of yeast options like dog breeds. All ale yeast is saccharomyces cerevisiae, just like all dogs are canis lupus familiaris. Yet, not all dog breeds are the same, and not all yeasts are the same. The ones we use are the ones with beneficial brewing attributes, be it flavor, brewing...

So I was sworn to secrecy, but it looks like the cat is out of the bag. A local place made a beer with this. Same flavor as chewing on grains. Not what most people are looking for in a lager.

@Dgallo and I were at the same table at the last one of these, but thought it better to divide and conquer this time. The judges said he and I had the 2 best beers there, but we could only officially submit 1 per table for judging (we used mine). So 3 tables altogether for our club overall at...

Brewed a sahti yesterday; missed most of my numbers. But the volume was spot on, and the yeast (authentic Finnish bakers yeast) got ripping in a hurry! Now to watch it like a hawk so I can rack it at the proper time.

Over the weekend I dumped the black IPA (keg had issues and the beer wasn't great anyway). Kegged the porter, and flavored half with vanilla/coffee; took a ton of vanilla to get it to come through. Also brewed in the heat yesterday.

3407 + 8 gallons marzen =3415

Brewed a nearly double batch of marzen yesterday (after drinking a lot the previous day...), complete with a decoction mash. And it was 90 when I finished...

Neither of mine advanced past the first round. Had high hopes for the schwarzbier, since it did great in a smaller comp. Don't agree with a lot of the comments, but oh well. Ironically, a couple of the subtle things I changed based on the other competition comments, were dinged at NHC. Ie, first...

Brewed my tried and true porter recipe on the 4th. Messed with my mill a bit beforehand to try to mitigate the efficiency issues from the last couple batches. Better, but not quite there yet. The design of the mill makes it difficult to measure the gap, so it's basically guess work.

I'm 4 batches behind on reporting so: 3184 + 5 gallons black IPA + 5 gallons wild ale + 5 gallons brown ale + 5 gallons porter =3204 gallons