I promise I haven\u2019t given up on home brewing. It was pretty clear in a couple of posts last year that it\u2019s difficult to brew in the winter time. The plan then was to brew a lot of wild ales and let them ferment for 12 months. Eight carboys are happily sitting downstairs just chilling out. It\u2019s a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m moving to a new house soon and will have some outdoor space and a spigot (finally) to pick up on things again. Soon, I\u2019ll do some carboy transferring and moving things around just a bit. I also just ordered a freezer to act as a fermentation area for some lagers. It\u2019s going to be a great time.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to continue the trend of brewing beers that are pricey or harder to get locally. I\u2019ll continue spontaneous wild ales and berliners along with larger Imperial stouts. The Brett IPA experiment will continue and I\u2019m going to experiment with some barrel projects but that\u2019s going to take some time.<\/p>\n
i\u2019m also going to sell my kegerator as it takes up a lot of space and electricity and get a cheap chest freezer that will serve two functions, a kegerator and bottle storage. The new place I\u2019m moving into doesn\u2019t have a lot of space so I\u2019ll store a lot of bottles in the chest freezer with a temp controller.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a shame that Matt Riggs was so wrong about my home brewing:<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m glad you slowed down with the homebrewing for a bit. Or is that permanent now too? I hope the latter, because you were also dishing out some bad advice.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Anyone looking at me for advice is their problem. I\u2019m brewing for fun and to have some cheap enjoyable beers in styles that I like. I don\u2019t aim to go pro and now that my pipeline of carboys is full, I stopped brewing for a bit. I can add Matthew to the long list of people who give a shit how I spend my time.<\/p>\n
I will probably post some tasting notes in May of my wild ales, porter and Hair of the Dog Adambier clone. that\u2019s also when I\u2019ll add Currants and Cabernet cubes to my Consecration clone and I\u2019ll brew my once a year Bourbon Imperial Stout and another Double IPA with Brett B but this time using a lot of wheat in place of 40% of the 2-row malts.<\/p>\n
Oh and I tasted my straight spontaneous lambic yesterday. WOW it smells amazing and tastes pretty good. Still needs a lot of time but it\u2019s cool that this beer was such a success so far. I\u2019m really hoping to keep that carboy for 3 years and keep adding so that I have 8-12 carboys full of \u2018VT Lambic\u201d that I can blend and add fruit to.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s all for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I promise I haven\u2019t given up on home brewing. 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