Stauffbier
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So what will your last brew of the year be? And when?
I'm brewing BM's Cream of Three Crops with a few tweaks tomorrow morning.
I'm brewing BM's Cream of Three Crops with a few tweaks tomorrow morning.
Vienna lager; maybe a bock.
Three gallons of Kolsch style. Which is a wonderful style.
This is also on my list. What yeast are you using?
(I work in an LHBS)
Brewing my dark ale tomorrow and might run out and get the yeast for making my caramel ale either Sunday or Monday. Also looking to finally get my uber-mead going this weekend (been slowly warming up the bucket of honey).
I'd really like to try a good mead to see if it's something I'd want to brew. I've never had one.
I never had any until I tried a bit from one of the guys at the LHBS I used to visit. I made my first batch soon after that (day before Thanksgiving 2010).
If you have access to some really good/great honey, then I'd just read up on current methods (Got Mead? forums) and go for it. I wouldn't bother with a 1 gallon batch though. Smallest would be a 3 gallon batch. Most of mine, now are about 4-4.5 gallons at the start. That way I get more than 3 gallons to bottles.
You can also make a maple mead/wine. I started one of those early December 2011. Bottled it up after a year. About 14% ABV and came out great. Just be sure to use Grade B syrup, not that grade A crap. Formulate it so that you'll have some residual sweetness left and LOOK OUT!! Especially once it warms up to above 50F (if you put it into the fridge). I'm planning on making another batch of that once a friend gets some syrup from his uncle up in Canada. Probably going to go to at least 16-18% next round.
I just don't know if I'd want to invest that kind of time in something if I don't know if I like it. I'm not a huge wine fan as it is, and to be honest I don't know if mead is similar to wine or not. I might try to find someone online that is willing to trade a bottle of mead for beer or something...
I just don't know if I'd want to invest that kind of time in something if I don't know if I like it.
10 gallons of Scottish Ale
So what will your last brew of the year be? And when?
I'm brewing BM's Cream of Three Crops with a few tweaks tomorrow morning.
I'm brewing a Pliny the Elder clone today.
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