It took 15 days but it finally got done fermenting. Racked to 2nd and dry hopped with 1 oz of Centennial. Figure it will be in 2nd for 10-14 days.
Still looking for the right trellis setup for the hops we are going to plant. They should be arriving in the next several days. Figure to have them planted by the 20th or so.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Weekend Operations
Brewery operations this past weekend included bottling of the Northern Brewer Extra Special Bitter (Saturday) that was brewed on 3/24. Opted to bottle all as I think this type of beer ages better in a bottle versus a keg. Should be ready for consumption on/about 4/5.
Sunday evening, got everything together and brewed a clone of Stone IPA. Used a recipe from a kit that was purchased from Austin Home-brew Supply. Increased the malt from 8 to 9.15 pounds of Pilzen malt and used White Labs British Ale Yeast.
SG came up to about 1.064. Should have been a little better than that as the orig recipe was for 1.066. Should have reached that easily with the extra 1.15 pounds of extract. Time will tell. If all goes well, this will be one of the first brews that will make it to a local establishment for sampling and (hopefully) the start of some sort of "demand" for products from the Broken Oar.
Sunday evening, got everything together and brewed a clone of Stone IPA. Used a recipe from a kit that was purchased from Austin Home-brew Supply. Increased the malt from 8 to 9.15 pounds of Pilzen malt and used White Labs British Ale Yeast.
SG came up to about 1.064. Should have been a little better than that as the orig recipe was for 1.066. Should have reached that easily with the extra 1.15 pounds of extract. Time will tell. If all goes well, this will be one of the first brews that will make it to a local establishment for sampling and (hopefully) the start of some sort of "demand" for products from the Broken Oar.
Monday, March 10, 2008
The trip to the Beerfest was a bust. Got there at 5:00 when they started selling tickets, stood in line for 90 minutes to have the Sold Out sign shoved in my face when I only had about 50-100 people ahead of me in line.
Had some other things to do Sunday so I could not get there for the final session.
Had some other things to do Sunday so I could not get there for the final session.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Atlantic City Beerfest
Heading to the AC Beerfest this afternoon. Several participants (vendors) there that of interest to me.
Stone Brewery out in San Diego will get a long visit. in 2007 when I was attending some training classes up in Quakertown, PA; I got a chance to go to the Spinnertown Hotel which had some Stone IPA on tap. Have had it several times since and even brewed a batch from a clone recipe (from Austin Homebrew.
I really like their approach to hopping.
Going to be a good day. Hope to get some other ideas while there.
Stone Brewery out in San Diego will get a long visit. in 2007 when I was attending some training classes up in Quakertown, PA; I got a chance to go to the Spinnertown Hotel which had some Stone IPA on tap. Have had it several times since and even brewed a batch from a clone recipe (from Austin Homebrew.
I really like their approach to hopping.
Going to be a good day. Hope to get some other ideas while there.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Post 1
Welcome to the Broken Oar Brewery blog.
I am new to this whole "blogging" thing so bear with me.
I am a Home-Brewer trying to develop some good beers. My intent is develop several different beers and to eventually open a brew-pub somewhere in Southern New Jersey. I have already touched base with a local (Atlantic City Area) restaurant and they seem interested in possibly placing one of my offerings on tap as a trial.
To date, I have brewed several different Czech Pilsners and a Schwarzbier for lagers. On the Ale side, I have done a dunkle, a heavy winter warmer, an IPA clone, hefeweizen, honey weizen, porter, and a small IPA called Tongue splitter.
Currently, I have a honey weizen on tap in the keggerator and I have an Extra Special Bitter in secondary fermentation. Looking at going back on the IPA trail next week.
I have traveled to some other brew-pubs in the vicinity (of which there are not many) and all have seem to have a variety of different offerings. However, I find myself not giving the establishment a very good rating if they do not have a good IPA.
My hope is to get a good IPA going, place it on tap at the local restaurant that is willing and see where it goes.
I am currently looking for a bargain conical fermenter so drop me a line if you have/know of one in the NJ/Philadelphia area.
I am new to this whole "blogging" thing so bear with me.
I am a Home-Brewer trying to develop some good beers. My intent is develop several different beers and to eventually open a brew-pub somewhere in Southern New Jersey. I have already touched base with a local (Atlantic City Area) restaurant and they seem interested in possibly placing one of my offerings on tap as a trial.
To date, I have brewed several different Czech Pilsners and a Schwarzbier for lagers. On the Ale side, I have done a dunkle, a heavy winter warmer, an IPA clone, hefeweizen, honey weizen, porter, and a small IPA called Tongue splitter.
Currently, I have a honey weizen on tap in the keggerator and I have an Extra Special Bitter in secondary fermentation. Looking at going back on the IPA trail next week.
I have traveled to some other brew-pubs in the vicinity (of which there are not many) and all have seem to have a variety of different offerings. However, I find myself not giving the establishment a very good rating if they do not have a good IPA.
My hope is to get a good IPA going, place it on tap at the local restaurant that is willing and see where it goes.
I am currently looking for a bargain conical fermenter so drop me a line if you have/know of one in the NJ/Philadelphia area.
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