Brewing recap: a lot got done
Despite starting earlier than normal, we actually had a fairly late night last night. Things weren’t quite as smooth since Jeff couldn’t get there till later and Joel was suspiciously “out of town” for work. Methinks not.
We had a good turnout and brewed another batch of our popular Eye Patch Ale. We also had all 3 beers on tap, which was both rare and awesome.
However, we also had a lot of non-brewing tasks to complete, such as:
- Cleaning Joel’s dirty beer kegs from a private, non-sanctioned MNB event (his sister’s wedding). Seriously?
- Dry-hopping and draining an Eye Patch Ale
- Transferring our experimental stout into 2 batches, one with bourbon-soaked oak chips and the other with cherries and vanilla. Yes, we’re excited. We went a little light on all ingredients since we’ve had some bad luck with overdoing things the first time around. *cough* spruce beer *cough*
Thanks again to all who showed up. Sorry if Jeff and I seemed a little frazzled. Actually, Jeff was probably fine. But I was frazzled. It won’t happen again (it might happen again). I just need to relax and have a homebrew. Fortunately we were able to unwind at the end of the night and drink a few beers:
Man, I love our end-of-Monday-night ritual, even though it makes Tuesday morning tough. I also love Jeff’s weird dribble stain on his shirt. I think it’s yeast. Or dribble.
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