Belgian Ale

I'm a big fan of Listermann's brewing supply in Cinci. Smaller operation, good prices, unique shop!

A view of the partial grain in the bag, getting ready to steep...

Close up of the cracked barley, ready to steep.

Close up of the hop bag, first addition.

Bavarian hefe, meet belgian ale.

All the fermentables coming to a boil, very pretty!

2nd hop addition, all parts integrated now...

Chilled down using my immersion wort chiller, into the fermenter, looks like an OG of 1.074.

Decided to go all carboy, single primary fermentation this time, no transfer to secondary. Should lend itself to a fuller bodied/hoppier brew, I'm hoping.

Took a gravity reading a couple weeks in and we're at 1.016. Roughly 7.6% ABV so far, we'll see how it plays out.

Funny story.... 20 hours into fermenting, the pressure from CO2 built up so much it shot my wort into the ceiling of the basement! Nice little stain up there. HA!

Cheers everyone!

More Pics coming soon!

Good day! I've got a Belgian in the fermenter and quite a few pics to update, but our little daughter is keeping us super busy, as she just learned how to crawl!

The belgian is registering at 7.6% ABV before bottling, so it's gonna be a humdinger. Backatchya with pics asap.

In the meantime, go out and try this brew: Full Sail Session Lager - Red or Black. Great stuff!

Honey Wheat Bottling - 03/17/10

Here is a pic of a nice half and half fermentation! Yeast cells doing their job, then falling to the bottom. Very gradual process.

Honey weiz came out a nice golden color!

Stout, meet your cousin, Honey wheat brew!

Final moments of the rack from secondary to bottling bucket...

Nice yeast cake at the bottom, pretty trippy. Bottling was same as usual from here. Ended up with over two cases which is where we like to be! Next up: Hefeweizen, the second part of this double wheatdown.

Cheers!

The Double WheatDown

Honey Wheat bottling pics and Hefeweizen pics coming soon.

Natalie's Honey Weiz has been in bottles for a week, come tomorrow. The Moriarty's hefeweizen is in the secondary fermenter and should be ready in about a month. More asap.

Cheers!

Honey Wheat in the secondary 02/22/10

Natalie's honey wheat beer in the secondary on her B-Day. Happy Birthday honey! This has a wonderful aroma to it. It looks like butterscotch in this pic, but it has a nice mellow yellow honey hue. Can't wait to try this one next month!

Withoutadoubt Stoubt

Distributing a few at quittin time today! Hope everyone will enjoy!

Cheers!

Stout pics... Aw yeah...

A nice deep brown/black coloring... Very smooth! I'm really happy with how this turned out.

Big stout, small glass! This is in the sampling glass from Alefest Columbus 2010. I called Listermann's in Cinci to ask how long I should wait and the guy there acted like I was an idiot for not having tasted it already! It had only been in bottles for a week, but I went for it and I'm sure as hell glad I did. REALLY tasty stuff.

Will be perfect to bid a fond farewell to this cold ass winter!

Cheers!