Fiery Sword
Well-Known Member
Man, this has been a long week.
First week at new job (misc stress), tripled commute time (sucks, but worth the $), worked yesterday at the bar, was too tired to do anything last night and ended up konked at 9:30. I was going through HBT withdrawal (dont want to do too much internet surfing while a new employee) but yesterday I was just too tired to log on and catch up on a weeks worth of unread material (aside: anything scary happen like new member/slow burn/fireworks finale/ban!?!) Then today. Nice out, almost 60 degrees, and the Beer Gods redeemed an otherwise long and annoying week.
I had a pretty good operation set up for today, including: cleaning (2) 5gal and (2) 2.5gal cornies, jumping keg-conditioned stout to new cornie, splitting up the Pilsner into the 2.5s, kegging the IPA in the 5, then mixing up a Vinoka Pear Cider kit that Northern Brewer was (is?) unloading for $35 (Im just intrigued, but SWMBO was actually into putting it together .cool :rockin: ).
Scrubbed everything, sanitized, set up. The keg cleaning went fine, and while everything was drying me and SWMBO went at the Cider. Very straight forward process, went well. The stuff smelled pretty good. After primary is done Ill be throwing in a little bottle of their Pear extract them racking a few times before kegging/forcing. This all went perfecto. I had some Milagro Anejo and Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat at hand, the windows were open and I had The Byrds Play Dylan cranking on the dbxs. (Note: Never saw/had the Leinenkugel before, but its a pretty good wheat. Quite possibly better than Blue Moon.)
Ciders pitched, capped off and in the <warm> closet, on to the kegging. I had hauled both the Pils and the IPA onto the kitchen table, switched the Byrds to some Ramble Tamble (my official force carbonation song/music I highly suggest it.), and had all three kegs shook up in no time. Threw them in the keg fridge, rigged up the gas, then jumped the stout. ("This is quite possible the best beer I've ever made" - but I also might just be buzz-over-hyping!!) Finished everything, cleaned up, and here we are. There is significantly less tequila hanging around, but technically there is much more beer (after all I just kegged/moved 15 gallons!).
Oh, and did I mention that three racks of baby backs have been smoking since 8:00AM? The Mets are going to open up the season in 3 hours, so Im going to stop typing and queue up every song that reminds me of beer, baseball and summer and go smoke a cigar in the yard. Its been a good Sunday.
First week at new job (misc stress), tripled commute time (sucks, but worth the $), worked yesterday at the bar, was too tired to do anything last night and ended up konked at 9:30. I was going through HBT withdrawal (dont want to do too much internet surfing while a new employee) but yesterday I was just too tired to log on and catch up on a weeks worth of unread material (aside: anything scary happen like new member/slow burn/fireworks finale/ban!?!) Then today. Nice out, almost 60 degrees, and the Beer Gods redeemed an otherwise long and annoying week.
I had a pretty good operation set up for today, including: cleaning (2) 5gal and (2) 2.5gal cornies, jumping keg-conditioned stout to new cornie, splitting up the Pilsner into the 2.5s, kegging the IPA in the 5, then mixing up a Vinoka Pear Cider kit that Northern Brewer was (is?) unloading for $35 (Im just intrigued, but SWMBO was actually into putting it together .cool :rockin: ).
Scrubbed everything, sanitized, set up. The keg cleaning went fine, and while everything was drying me and SWMBO went at the Cider. Very straight forward process, went well. The stuff smelled pretty good. After primary is done Ill be throwing in a little bottle of their Pear extract them racking a few times before kegging/forcing. This all went perfecto. I had some Milagro Anejo and Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat at hand, the windows were open and I had The Byrds Play Dylan cranking on the dbxs. (Note: Never saw/had the Leinenkugel before, but its a pretty good wheat. Quite possibly better than Blue Moon.)
Ciders pitched, capped off and in the <warm> closet, on to the kegging. I had hauled both the Pils and the IPA onto the kitchen table, switched the Byrds to some Ramble Tamble (my official force carbonation song/music I highly suggest it.), and had all three kegs shook up in no time. Threw them in the keg fridge, rigged up the gas, then jumped the stout. ("This is quite possible the best beer I've ever made" - but I also might just be buzz-over-hyping!!) Finished everything, cleaned up, and here we are. There is significantly less tequila hanging around, but technically there is much more beer (after all I just kegged/moved 15 gallons!).
Oh, and did I mention that three racks of baby backs have been smoking since 8:00AM? The Mets are going to open up the season in 3 hours, so Im going to stop typing and queue up every song that reminds me of beer, baseball and summer and go smoke a cigar in the yard. Its been a good Sunday.
