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Good to hear. One of these is a Wee Heavy aged in one of my club's barrels for 4 months, the other is a non-barrel aged wheatwine (that I'm trading one case with one of the club's brewers who has theirs in the barrel). Guess it gets to live in my closet for a while!

Just went through a spat of bottling BIG (11% and up) beers from my club's barrel aging program. Problem is, I don't have the cooler space to keep all the bottles. Wondering if they will do OK staying in the 70* air conditioned house for a year...

Bottled up a 13.25% Wee Heavy brewed as part of my club's barrel project. Aged 4 months in a fresh Buffalo Trace Single Malt barrel. 46 Scottsmen On Parade!

You know you are a homebrewer when you have to remind people that, in addition to kegs and kegs of beer stocked up for the apocalypse, you are also not impacted by the resulting ammunition shortage.

Some people get attached to their shiny new aluminum CO2 tank. Not me. I've always swapped my tank when it was empty. Sometimes the tank is prettier than other times, but it's always in hydro, and if it goes out, the welding supply shop will swap an out of hydro cylinder that has their...

Well, now I self quarantined...

Judged a second day in the local competition. Managed to bring home hardware for an American Pale Ale (18B) and a Barrel Aged Maple Barleywine (31B-Alt Sugar-Maple, 33A barrel-aged, 22C american barleywine)!

I judged Autumn/Winter Seasonal beer in a competition. First time judging. Had a good time.

The competitions that I've stewarded (I fully recognize that I don't have the palate to judge beers, and am perfectly OK with getting to drink all the same beers without having to work at describing them) usually have that rule... for the most part it's been a 5-point spread. Still, I was a...

Putting together a great big old wheatwine, then salvaging a belgian wit from the second runnings (plus a little sumtin sumtin to cap off the mash, another half lb of mela and 2-3 lbs of pils).

It's far more likely that you have some yeast stuck on your Tilt causing it to float a little different, throwing off your gravity readings. If you aren't ready to take the beer out of the fermenter, then let it ride. If you are worried, go ahead and take a hydrometer sample and see what's...

Really came Saturday... but close enough! Digital Refractometer!

Knocked out a "single-hop" American IPA today: https://www.facebook.com/pg/SandStoneBrewing/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2812868372103744

Put together some bottles for competition season. A. Light Lager and Baltic Porter

Pressurizing a glass vessel not designed for pressure.

I made jackets for my HLT and MLT out of moving blankets. I do not remove the one around the HLT while heating liquids. I use 5500w ripple elements. I did not make one for the boil kettle because 1) response time / heat retention isn't as important and 2) didn't want to have a nasty gummy...

Conducting a forced diacetyl test on a Märzen before cold crashing.

Light American Lager... pilsner and rice. Used it to build up enough w-34/70 yeast for other beers. Turned out pretty good!

Brewed a Marzen... Putting in my last effort for 2019... 11 gallons of Märzen to go on top of the yeast cake from a Baltic Porter. Making the water... I got a RO system for x-mas. Getting 11ppm from my 450ppm well water. Cant' beat that! Modification to the element to support whirlpool...

11 gallons of Maerzen! that makes 10684 gallons.