It's been a pretty busy month in the Bearded Brewery. I brewed the second version of my Green Beard IPA, simply an IPA using all organic ingredients (I usually don't use all organic hops). I had bought a large order of hops from Seven Bridges in California, and included was a high alpha organic hop, American Summit. In the Green Beard, I used the hop for bittering and all other additions, using 3 ounces in total. I chose not to dry hop, but instead split the batch (as mentioned in the previous post). I bottled both the Green Beard and Orange Beard (2 gallons of the GB on fermented on top of mangoes.) I'm pretty excited for both, the Orange Beard tasted amazing at bottling and I'm excited for this one, but might have to come up with a filtering technique to get less mango pulp in the bottles.
The Green Beard smells great, very citrusy and at bottling was also looking like its going to turn out to be a nice citrusy, hoppy IPA.
In addition to brewing the IPAs, I brewed a hefeweizen for my annual fantasy draft. More to come on that as well.I've been really happy with the turn out of my hoppy beers lately. It was something I was trying toget better at, and between the IAPA Pale Ale, Bearded Fury IPA, and the Green Beard, I'm feeling pretty good about my hoppy beer brewing. So onto another area I want to perfect, dark beers. Winter is thankfully months away, but I'm getting excited to start brewing some darker beers. I'm planning on a porter, an Oatmeal stout, and a Negro-Modelo-ish dark lager (winter version of the Gringo). But I wanted to start my dark beer brewing with one of my favorite styles, a milk stout. I'm a big, big fan of Left Hand Brewing Company's Milk Stout and wanted to try one. Last year I added lactose to my Cherry Stout, but wanted to brew a straight milk stout, so I brewed La Vaca, which will be ready in time for the start of fall. I had wanted to try putting cranberries
into the secondary, but have opted to split the batch and put cranberries on 2 gallons, and save 3 for the straight milk stout. Should be good. I'm excited to see the turn out, I'm planning on transferring it in the next day or two, so I'm anxious to see how it's tasting.More to come...
Salud!
Bearded Brewer
3 comments:
So tell us mate, how did the cranberries and milk stout turn out? I was never much of a home brew fan, but have recently given it more and more thought after reading all the posts on your blog. You almost convince me. Now for someone who has never much liked dark ales or home brew, what would you suggest as a starting point?
I hate to even admit this on this board, but I was always a fan of the watered down commercial types. But find now as I get older that they are just that, watered down and lacking in substance. Ok, there I said it. Now where to find a good drink in a local watering hole. Any suggestions on what to start with?
Ocala, thanks for the post. I have yet to try the Cranberry Milk Stout, so we shall see. But as for your other question, I think I would start with a similar light beer to the "watered down commerical beers." I would start with a pilsner, or a belgian wit. Belgian wits, or sometimes referred to as Belgian whites, are light ales that don't have overpowering flavors, but are more flavorful than your typical American lager. They are good "gateway" beer I think.
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