Batches brewed in 2011

dfess1 · Dec 13, 2011

5 Gallon:
Dry Stout
Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout
Oak aged Bourbon Porter
Wee Heavy
Pilsner
Schwarzbier
Maibock
House Pale Ale x3 (extract version)
Christmas Ale
SN Tumbler Clone
Ruination Clone
Dunkelwizen

10 Gallons
House Pale Ale x3 (all grain)
House Pale Ale w/Rye x2
Franziskaner Clone
Westmalle Double

Would like to get another one or two brews in before end of the year, but all depends on how christmas shopping goes this week! Still, 140 gal of beer seems like quite alot. What is more depressing, I only have 4 kegs at the moment, and will be depleting 3 of those at christmas!

imtrashed · Dec 13, 2011

dfess1 said:
Would like to get another one or two brews in before end of the year, but all depends on how christmas shopping goes this week! Still, 140 gal of beer seems like quite alot. What is more depressing, I only have 4 kegs at the moment, and will be depleting 3 of those at christmas!

No, what's depressing is that I don't feel like that I've had all that many people helping me drink it. Not sure where my 100 gallons went. Actually, many of them are going to have to age a while (Barleywine, Apfelwein, Mead, RIS), so those 20 gallons haven't really been touched much yet, except for sampling. That also leaves me with about 8 or 9 cases of bottles that I can't use and fill with new batches. I've hit somewhat of a logjam for new batches, since I need to empty more bottles to have the space! I'm sure I'll have plenty of help around the holidays to empty bottles.

dfess1 · Dec 13, 2011

yeah, next week i'm taking the following kegs with me: Christmas Ale, SN Tumbler Clone, House Pale w/ Rye. My in-laws already think we're a bunch of drunks. But we got my BIL who will be in town from HI into homebrewing 2 years ago. And he drinks like a fish. This way we don't need to go buy beer. We'll be good for the 5 days we'll be at their place (we better be anyway..)

JonM · Dec 13, 2011

JonM said:
Robust porter
Saison
Yooper's oatmeal stout
Kate the Great RIS clone
4 variations on a Maris Otter SMASH
A simcoe/amarillo IPA
A Citra/Centennial iPA
OhioBrewtus's Hoegaarden clone
EdWort's Rye IPA
And a wheat that didn't turn out so well.

Yeah, that robust porter got a gusher infection.

I followed it up with these (all small 2.75 gal. batches)
A different oatmeal stout
Wee Heavy (leaving that sitting until April or so)
Three variations on a Two-Hearted clone - one all Citra, one all Simcoe, and one all Amarillo
Revvy's Haus Amber
A Left Hand Milk Stout clone
Another Munich/Centennial SMASH
A Kolsch that is currently lagering
And a couple of small cider experiments.

imtrashed · Dec 13, 2011

dfess1 said:
This way we don't need to go buy beer.

I haven't purchased any beer at home since 2010 (except for a few craft beer bottles to harvest yeast from). Definitely feel a sense of accomplishment for that.

JonM said:
Yeah, that robust porter got a gusher infection.

I have a stout that seems to have a gusher infection also. I get about 10 oz of drinkable beer from every 22 oz bottle after all of the foaming. Tastes fine, so I'm still drinking them. Very odd. Haven't had any contaminated batches in all my time brewing. Not sure what happened with this one, but I did have a friend of mine do the bottling for this batch while we were brewing another one of mine that day. Not sure it's coincidence.