While I am behind my normal schedule for brewing my TTO beers, I am by no means in a rush. I do have a Porter, a spiced beer, a barleywine and an Imperial stout that are ready. And have just brewed the American brown yesterday. (expect a post on this soon)

Except for maybe the Porter, I feel I don't yet have anything that will go anywhere, but I haven't yet gave any thought to my “main” beer yet. The stout. I have always put in at least two stouts. The Fogger dry stout and the Black Feather American stout.

And after last years fiasco with the Fogger being split into two beers, and being able to taste them side by side, I decided that there needs to be a change.

I can taste in my head the beer that I want. And Fogger split-off, Betazoid was very close. Very close. But It was a accident beer really. I was brewing off-world and forgot some ingredients, and had super efficiency for some reason that night. (or the scales there were off) But we came out with a beer that was soooo good.

It was so much more a dry stout than what I had been brewing. But at almost 8% it was far too big for a dry stout. I put it in as a foreign extra. As mentioned, I already have this years “big” stout in play. We now need our everyday stout.

I think I will do a walk thru in my designing my stout as I did in the http://9stripe.blogspot.com/2014/09/building-my-porter.html post a few months back. (oh, and by the way, that porter is flippin great!) 

Next up,, building my stout.