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Aquatic Pumpkin Ale Tasting

We cracked open the Aquatic Pumpkin Ale tonight to give it a taste.  We might have even cracked open a couple.  The ale is a bit cloudy, but that shouldn't scare you away.  The tones of pumpkin are apparent in this light-tasting ale and it has a spicy finish that reminds us of mom's pumpkin pie.  We know what we'll be having on Thursday along with our pie.

If you'd like to get your hands on a bottle of the Aquatic, give us a holler.

Stout Family: Small Batch

Yesterday marked the bottling of the Stout Family.  The base for the group of beers was a Cream Stout batch.  We divided the priming sugar up and boiled 2/5 of it with some Belgian cocoa powder.  Half of that was used as priming/flavor for 10 bottles of Post-Race Recovery Chocolate Milk Stout.  The other half was mixed with a cup of very strong cold-pressed coffee to create 10 bottles of Early Riser Mocha Cream Stout.  The remaining 3/5 of the priming sugar was used for two other variations.  We used an additional cup of the cold-pressed coffee to make 10 bottles of Early Riser Coffee Cream Stout.  Finally, the remaining cream stout was bottle with no additions, creating 23 bottles of Podium Cream Stout.

French Press

I spent the better part of tonight on a mission to find a french press, and I don't even drink coffee.  The search went: HEB -> Wal-Mart -> Target -> HEB.  The result is I now have a french press full of an Ethiopian coffee cold brewing in preparation for bottling.

I've currently got a cream stout in the secondary fermenter and it's begging to be bottled in the next couple days.  The idea is to divide this batch into several variations:

- 2 gallons of cream stout
- 1 gallon of coffee cream stout
- 1 gallon of chocolate cream stout
- 1 gallon of mocha stout

In other news, the Aquatic Pumpkin Ale will be ready to drink by the end of the week.

Current Beers in Bottles

American Ale
Johan Brew-neel (Belgian White)
Dunkelweizen
Oktoberfest