Quiet night, extra pale ale
House O Beer, By Roxanne
To kick the evening off, DJ dropped by to discuss his latest business venture, Meals in Minutes. Or, maybe Seven-Minute Meals - I’m not sure, I wandered away before the conversation was finished. (Matt says it’s still Meals in Minutes).
Then, Hitesman came over, and the brewing began. Tonight, we, or more accurately, they, made an extra pale ale, which happens to be my personal favorite. Rock on, boys!
They also cleaned some stuff, finished off the Irish Draught and kegged Nick’s Cream Ale (which sounds a little dirty). They decided to not keg the dunkle (uncle? I’m not really sure) since Bart wasn’t here and there were no kegs available anyway.
After much debate, and vows to keep brewing into the summer, they ordered a raspberry wheat, for which they only plan to use half the raspberry extract. Maybe they should call it rasp whe. At any rate, I seem to think this was my sister’s favorite. She should come visit to help us drink it…
Participants included Chuck, Samantha, DJ, Jason, Matt and Rox.
Jason, have fun at David Gilmore!
May 1st, 2006 at 2:24 am
What a great kick back brew night and amazing way to unwind after some busy weeks so I was totally destressed for Gilmore the next night! I’m sure I would have enjoyed that concert even if there were people poking me with hot pointy sticks the whole time but having a nice relaxing brew night just before definately did NOT detract
That cream ale sure took it’s own sweet time - and having finally tasted it this past friday at J’s birtday party I can say it was worth the wait! I was going to say something about not knowing why it took that long as the first few I drank I sure didn’t taste much alcohol…but based on how I ended up at the end of that night…it was definately in there and the time mellowed it nicely!
Not a big fan of the raspberry wheat myself…but I’m itching for that Pale Ale as we’ve done far too few of them this year!
Will we keep brewing all summer? No-one knows yet…but if we do I can guarantee I’ll be coming up with an all grain PA to do a 10 gallon batch of so we don’t run out anytime too soon!