Brewing Schild Brau
Today we are brewing Schild Brau. Yesterday we made Colony Oatmeal Stout.. and it is foaming over in the fermentation room.. something that we take as a good sign!
Last weekend we had the THIRSTY Classic Homebrew competittion in our new warehouse. You can see the results here. In first place was Joe Hetrick, one of Thirsty’s loyal members. Good job Joe! He made a very excellent American Style Pale Ale. I had the joy of judging both the Wheat beer category, and the Hybrid Ale category. There were some very fine beers, and we truly took our time in judging them. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so I don’t have any pictures to show you ;(
Tommorrow Paul from the Old Capitol Brewpub and I are going to the Barrel Aged Beer Festival in Chicago. Hopefully we will learn a thing or two, and maybe have our own Barrel Aged Beers in the Future. I’m not very interested in making a bourbon style beer, seeing as I don’t really like bourbon, but cellaring one of our own beers in a wine or port barrel would be something I would like to investigate. I’ll report more when I get back from the trip.
Pumpkin our new kitten is doing great. She is a surpringly vocal little kitty, and a real attention hog… but we love her all the same! Teresa even made her a cat bed, using an old blanket that has black cats and jack o lanterns on it.. pretty cool!