Doing a quick catch up here on things while we are “emptying” a few kegs for summer use.

Proud to say that the Beet Saison did in fact win the Copper State Wort Challenge. Besides being a damn good Saison, it looks great and is very easy to make.. and that’s what probably was the deciding factor.

Next up.. a few brew days. Had a dual Mash and Boil brew with Maxwell back in March. We did some Irish Reds.

I actually was not very impressed with mine. I left it to ferment down at the store. It was on the floor against the outside wall. So it was probably fluctuating between high to low 50s. Not so detrimental, but will most likely take a bit extra for it to come around as they say. Its now awaiting it place in the fridge rotation.

A few weeks ago I won a bunch of grains from the Bull Falls Golden Growler contest. Some Golden Promise and something called Stout Malt. Presumably a Maris Otter-like malt?

Used the Golden Promise and brewed up the Hobgoblin clone that I brewed back 2012. That beer was beyond fantastic. Still in primary, but hoping to get it kegged up within the next week. (Soon as I can finish off a keg)

And this past Saturday I did a quick and usually easy American Wheat with Amarillo hops. I say usually because I decided to use Beersmith instead of my own calculations and ended up with some wonky water volumes. Some of it my fault, some of it not. But nothing too detrimental. Should be a good beer that’s still fermenting well right now.

And the rest of my week will be getting the TTO beers labled and ready for drop off. I don’t have as many entries as usual, but the ones I do have are pretty good.

Next up, I will be doing something with that stout malt.