Apparently We All Suck At This

According to this video, he has presented the proper way to pour a beer. Problem is, I don't agree with him. At least not in all cases- A good stout, for example, should be poured aggressively and will usually end up as his first 'bad' example. Just the way it is.

http://www.chow.com/stories/11289

I FRAKKING FROZE IT!

So, we're about a week away from the Candy Cane Porter being ready for drinking, but the temptation was simply too great. We had to try it.

No problem. Take some beers, stick em in the freezer, and head out for a pitcher or two. After all, Kools had both Magic Hat and Shiner Bock on tap.

So, less than an hour later, we get back to try the latest creation, and we get beer slushies. And not in a good way.

So now we wait- It definitely needs another week, and frankly I don't feel like weezing the juice right now.

Christmas Beer

Well, it's that time again. This year, in addition to the wife's abundance of cookies, we have a special Christmas Porter we're working up. Currently we are part way through the primary fermentation of the Porter, and I've whipped up a bit of Candy Cane Simple Syrup. Hopefully it's early enough in the fermentation that the sugars can meld, yet far enough along for enough alcohol to have generated to properly infuse the candy canes.

We shall see.

In other notes, the Vanilla stout is bubbling away nicely.

About that whole "Rewarming Beer Skunks It!" thing...

After a party, i find myself with well over a case-and-a-half of iced undrunk beer... As in the beer itself had not been drunk yet, not necessarily the people who drank the other 50 bottles worth of it.

So, it being on ice, i find myself with a predicament. I need to store this stuff, preferably with all of my other bottle-aging beers in my beer closet. (Yes, i have one. And so should you!)

Fortunately, as I had long suspected that whole rewarming-cold-beer thing to only be a mere wives tale, especially after properly learning to make and bottle it, a little research confirms everything.

To wit:

http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/first-draft/2008/05/02/Beer-Storage-Tips#page1

It is promo video time

Dos Codenbraus (Well 48 to be exact)

We've botteled up our Mexican style Cerveza which came out with a very Dos XX's amber look to it. We were very pleased with the outcome of the color and the taste. We are both under the impression now that we've been kicking our own asses by trying to bottle 7 gallons of beer and wort another five gallons all in one night.

We now own enough supplies that we can easily have a couple of batches running at the same time and so we don't need to be killing ourselves trying to do it all at once.

The pilsner we brewed up is on it's last few bottles. It has aged quite nicely and we are very pleased with out it has turned out.

There is a red fermenting away right now and we talking about what we want to make as a Christmas Ale for gift giving.

Yes, it is time to think about this sort of thing.

Bottles. We Has It.

Another bottling day is upon us. No, we're not promising a liveblog, because it's really not that practical, and getting the laptops wet sucks. Tomorrow we have up to 56 bottles ready for the Amber Cerveza, which hopefully has matured into a very fine beer by now. It's our first steeped brew, so it certainly marks a passage of skill level.