Brew Batch #92 Orange Creamsicle

My first attempt at a sour, not a kettle sour, but sour, there is a difference. OG 1.040 @110F (yes that's right) which by the way is perfect for what our calculations said. So simple non-hopped wort at 100F sits in the garage with 8oz of Lacto ready to sour away for about 48hrs. Then 1056 in my 500ml starter chews up the rest. Then in 10 days, 16oz of Orange-Aid gets blended with a Madagascar vanilla bean Vodka extract I'm starting tonight to give hopefully a great 4%abv result.

Brew Batch #91 Dangling Fruit IPA

Second in the BP series went in to the keg today with a healthy FG 1.010+ 0.000@ 45F to give 7.6%abv. The aroma is heavy grapefruit citrus, tasting notes and posting to Untappd come on the morrow. A slightly different color than Shepherd's with more of a green/dark mustard hue.
(Update: the aroma is pineapple/grapefruit but the tropical notes are washed away by the full force of pine on the taste from the Cascade)

Brew Batch #91 Dangling Fruit IPA

Second in the BP series. Same base grain bill as Shepherd's with a change in hops to Cascade, Azacca and El Dorado. Using the new mashtun we hit the OG within -0.002 at 1.068, then vorlaufed to get all the goodness from the kettle we could as we conducting brewing during this rainy Daddy Daycare Beat-12/OTB Collaboration. Things took longer than we expected but a great brewing first nonetheless. See ya in 8 days for kegging!

Brew Batch #90 Peanut Butter no Jelly Time

Why not throw my hat into the foray of "nutty" beers. Short of a slightly underwhelming Pecan porter, I've never done any. So for a special friend and after enough research to choke a horse, today I mashed in Peanut Butter no Jelly Time porter. An imperial all grain based off of a previous Baltic extract recipe that seemed to marry well with almost anything. Except today I slid 30oz of PB powder into the boil and have flavoring waiting for thief samples before kegging. I owe this ole girl for some "non-surgical" work...twice. Kettle cleaning was a nightmare and I hope the 2112 can chew up an OG 1.110 +0.00@65F! Gonna throw some nibs in there for a touch of chocolate, I think.

Our Tastes-- Gingerbread Stout

A Fairhope offering and Alfalfa Train bootleg, Gingerbread Stout is the real holiday deal! Wanted to finish this howler before the spices got too squirrely, but this beer other than a bit too much clover is spot on. I understand that gingerbread cookies have their fair share of this item in them but too much in an alcohol base lends to a metallic almost tininess. Dark brown in color with a wonderful sweet ginger nose. Taste and mouthfeel are a bit thin and leaning towards metal but I mentioned that previously. I'd have at least 2 pints of this before I was done fo sho'