Our Tastes-- Doggie Style Pale Ale

Doggie Style Pale Ale is where shit starts looking better in the mixed litter. Doggie Style is an American Pale Ale with a touch of West Coast in it (even though it's from CO). At first pour it has a beautiful reddish-light brown color and the aroma says "I'm not too hoppy for you to try" if you have the delicate palate. The lattice aka "foam legs" on this one seems to be more intricate as well. I really enjoy this one and almost wish Stout Mouth season wasn't coming.
Alcohol content: 5.3% ABV
Original Gravity: 1.052
IBU's: 36
Specialty Malts: 120L Crystal
Hops: Northern Brewer, Cascades
Process: Dry hopped with cascades during fermentation

Our Tastes -- In Heat Wheat

In Heat Wheat is the next beer I'm trying. It is a German hefeweizen NOT a belgian wit. Now first off this brew has a great straw color, but for me lacks in the taste dept. The proper method of pouring up a wheat is to pour half way down the glass, tilt the bottle back up and swirl the wheat proteins at the bottomw then pour the remainder into the pint. I noticed this particular "protein shake" has a unique off flavor (and I've had more than one out of diff cases to make sure it wasn't skunked). Bottom line, it ain't no Shiner hefe. I had it without any citrus which is the way I prefer wheat beer and a wedge of lemon would change the profile all together, but overall, an okay beer to try IF you are buying the litter of pups
Alcohol content: 5.1% ABV
Original Gravity: 1.048
IBU's: 12
Specialty Malts: Malted White Wheat, Munich Malt
Hops: German Perle
Process: Unfiltered for added flavor

Free The Dogs, Chain The Humans!!

Well I finally got around to taking a look (or gulp) at the fine brews offered by Flying Dog Brewery out of Denver, CO. So this month even though it is a short will be the Month of the Dog. Junk has donated a litter of pups to the cause and I'll be starting out with the "runt" of the litter..Tire-Bite Golden Ale Tire bite is a kolsch. I have been away from Flying Dog Brews for a while, but I'll have to admit Tire Bite was okay. It reminded me a lot in smell and color of Miller Lite. I'm sure this is their answer to that type of mouth.
Alcohol content: 5.1% ABV
Original Gravity: 1.046
IBU's: 17.5
Specialty Malts: Malted White Wheat, Munich Malt
Hops: German Perle, Hallertau
Process: Brewed with a unique proprietary yeast

Taster's Choice Awards (not the coffee)

I've had a few comments lately about the homebrew and wanted to share them:
BugMan1109 wrote--"I tried your APA alongside Olde Towne, and they were surprisingly similar. The Amber was good too. It had a sweet taste in the background.
We miss you , Rosa. ;-(" --nice closing BugMan. He also took the time to look up a homebrewers association featured on the History Channel's Brewing episode, of which I have taped yet not seen (finals will be over soon).
Maltose Falcons Home Brewing Society (Los Angeles Homebrewing) - Home Page
I recently gave a sixer to a prof here at school consisting of SS, IRA & EPA and he said just this Friday he went all the way down one side of it (after his hot H2O heater went out) remarking, "They were good", a man of few words, thank you Dr. Colorado;)

Brew Batch #15

Vanilla Cream Ale also went to the bottle tonight. I personally think this was the shocker batch of the year, of we are only into this year by 22 days and this is the first bottled batch, but I digress...2 clear and 48 long-neck brown with TURTLE CAPS!! I'll post a pick of them when I can figure out how to use Picassa on blogger. FG was a little discerning though (see previous post) 1.014 +0.00@66F to give us a whopping 3% abv. But I will say that it bottled as the clearest best color yet, a nice golden straw. Who knows, maybe I'll try another batch and leave it alone to see how it turns out.

Brew Batch #17

Closing in on that 8 batches before April mark in record pace, our British Bitter went to fermenter tonight. The brewing process has become definitely more stream-lined and efficient on these mundane batches. We have run into a problem with the OGs being a little lower than we would like on these session type beers but can't seem to figure that one out. Didn't do a yeast starter for this one because of the fear of yeast-bite. OG 1.024 + 0.001 @73F. This is our last ordered batch so new ones will need to be ordered ( along with some sanitizer, may try Listermann.com )

Brew Batch #16

We'll call it 42-A IPA since this is Junk's brain child. I haven't made an IPA batch since 12/2003 and it turned out okay. We had a few of them this week and I really got the taste back in my mouth. This time we put all of the LME in a hot bath in the sink which made them REALLY quick and easy to pour (and it freed up the stove). We also put a little water in each of the jugs to get that last little bit of extract out of them. Speaking of sugar did I mention that we added about 1 lb of cane sugar to this batch? Yeah, buddy! Jamie down at the AleHouse said we would be okay at about 15% but we went with 10% since it was easier to measure. It also had 4 hop additions: Nugget, Fuggle, Kent Goldings and Fuggle (which was interesting to strain out). Oh and we may dry hop with some Cascade I have laying around. It took a while for the larger boil to come down to 80F but we were jaw-jacking and smoking stogies and cleaning out the fridge for upcoming tasters. So right now it is 38F outside and 62F in our primary. I'll check it tomorrow morning to see how the starter affected it. I hope it's rolling. OG 1.062+0.00 @60F If this turn out to be a 7%er it is going to be perfect. The only problem it that we can't decide what type of bottles to use, but the crowns must be YELLOW.