HomeBrew Wednesday # 1

Happy Home Brew Wednesday  

 

This will be my first home brew Wednesday blog post. Today I will talk about what I have been doing in the brewing world and some of my up grades in my home brew equipment.  

 

 

Back on January 10 one of my local breweries (Draft Line)  had an event called Brew and Chew.  As the Head brewer said " we will BREW some home brew and  CHEW on some brewing facts. There was around twenty homebrewers on hand. All brewing our own 5 to 10 gallon batches. I brewed a Pale Ale with all Nelson Sauvin hops and cultivated Wyeast 1272 from my last brew of ESB.  What a great brew day.

 

(in the center) Jamie McMillan , Draft Line Brewing head brewer
-Photo courtesy of Kellie Evans

 



A great angle of brewery with me in the middle with the hat on
-Photo courtesy of Kellie Evans-

Wort Chilling with an awesome immersion chiller.
-Photo courtesy of Kellie Evans-





Yeast starter cultivated from my ESB batch. (Wyeast 1272)
-Photo courtesy of Kellie Evans-

 

 

From the Brew and Chew I picked up a few techniques to bring my Brewing up to the next level. Up until that day I had only batch sparged, but from some of the other home brewers I was able to get some ideas on how to build a fly sparge system, which I used on my next brewday.

Diagrams for my fly sparge system

My Fly sparge system in action.

 

Brew today, See you Tomorrow. 

 



Contest Winning Brew / Double Axe Nano Brewery

Good Afternoon my fellow craft brew drinkers. I am working my way to the nano brewery level.  In my last post I brewed an End Of Summer Citra IPA. I entered that beer in a home brew competition at my local home brew shop, which I won third place.  Coming in behind second place an Oktoberfest and first place a Baltic Porter.

Here are some pictures from my last brew day. I brewed a Pumpkin ESB. 

Brew Today , See you Tomorrow

Citracada , The end of summer IPA

Citracada

The end of summer is near and here in North Carolina that means Cicadas. On this brew day I was brewing a Citra IPA. Here is my brew day in photos. 

Brew today See you tomorrow.

Belgian Brew Day

Belgian Abby Ale

OG 1.070

That is right I went all grain. Here is my brew day in pictures.

 

Brew today, See you tomorrow.

Beer of the day

Lagunitas SUCKS

• It poured a golden amber color with a nice one finger white head.
• It smelled of earthy hops and sweet malt.
• The taste was bitter, over malty and slightly tasted of hops.
•  It also had an alcohol burn, but at 7.85 ABV it gets the job done.

Brew today, See you tomorrow.

Citrus IPA

PICTURE OF THE DAY

My citrus IPA wrapped in a custom label. Painted with water color, courtesy of my father-in-law Rob Phillips.

Rowan's Farm
Painted by Rob Phillips

                           If you would like to see or purchase painting from Rob Phillips go to                      http://www.etsy.com/shop/foggyholler

Snow day Beer

I heard the snow was coming to my town. Everyone was going out to buy milk and bread , I went out to get a local NC beer. Here are some pictures of what I bought.  HighLand brewing company's  Kashmir English India Pale Ale.