…But it’s honest work. This is a Norwegian-inspired farmhouse ale utilizing juniper berries and orange peel. Turned out pretty well, and we are planning to put it on tap at the 2023 Boot Brew Festival in Eunice, Louisiana. Update: This beer took Third Place – Light European Ales in the 2023 Clash of Carboys in Louisianna. (5 gallon batch) Preboil: 1.039 Original Gravity: 1.049 Final Gravity:1.011 IBU: 70 SRM: 14 ABV: 4.9% Read More →
Well, we had been brewing for a while without any issues… and this brew day went perfectly. BUT, on day FOUR of fermentation, we had a blow-out in the ferm chamber in one of the fermenters, and this beer made a mess. On top of that, we don’t know how long it was exposed, and one fermenter of the set was oxidized. Then when it finished it’s run, it had a bad aroma, and we ALMOST threw it out. However, after running off about a pitcher’s worth of beer, the aroma disappeared, and the taste is pretty on point. We believe there were remnants ofRead More →
1st Place – Sweet Stout : 2023 Boot Brew Festival, Eunice Louisiana. This beer favors a porter and not a stout, but the bitterness will make it taste like a stout because of the coffee. I was torn as to what to call it. Our local brewery, Bakfish, recently started roasting their own coffee beans, so as a challenge, we decided to make coffee beers for February. I’ve enjoyed this fireside, but you must like coffee to enjoy this beer, as it is bold in coffee flavor. Note that this was a 10 gallon preboil volume that yielded just over 8 gallons at kegging withRead More →
Ok, so our Punch-Out Porter beer didn’t win a competition based on taste itself. Womp Womp. But the brew’s Little Mac label was selected out of hundreds of entries into the Brew Your Own Magazine’s (BYO.com) 26th annual beer label competition as the bronze winner! Today we received swag from BYO care of White Labs Brewing Company including FREE PUREPITCH YEAST. So it is time to brew more beer! Thanks to BYO for a fun competition. We have thoroughly enjoyed this year’s original Nintendo label theme and we look forward to revealing the new theme for 2022! It is coming quick… Update: WOOT! GrogTag, ourRead More →