BrewMagician\’s Blog

So, I’ve bought more kegs to keep around to meet my supply.  I don’t know why I’m brewing so much now, the bug has bitten me and the only cure is lots and lots of brewing…

 November 15th:

Brewing 5 gallons of a Mackeson XXX Stout clone, then 15 gallons of my AM Wheat.  I will spice one of the wheats (5 gallons) to taste like pumpkin pie.  The other two may be raspberry again or apricot.  I really liked those extracts from William’s…

Then, maybe over Thanksgiving, I’m brewing a pumpkin ale using neck pumpkin instead of porch pumpkin in hopes that quality will increase, my Oatmeal-Espresso Stout, and maybe a red ale….

I’m going to start cask-conditioning my beers to increase the time between having to empty out my keg fridge…  Or maybe I just need another keg fridge….

We’ll see, I need to get ingredients from Chris Hunt before this weekend, and get my starters going…

I will need 7 lbs of Gold / Light Malt Extract for the All Cascade pale ale. 

I’m thinking about an All-Cascade Pale Ale, so I’d need some Cascade hops too (~5 oz @ 6% IBU). I’ll use that beer as a starter for my California V yeast, then when it’s done, pitch 15 gallons of a wheat on top of it.   

So, at the end of all this, I’ll have: 

1)      5 gallons of Cascade pale

2)      5 gallons of Spiced Holiday Ale

3)      2-3 gallons of Mead. (Yuck.  I judged 2 meads at the competition, and if I never taste a mead again, I’ll be a happy dude.)

4)      15 gallons of Wheat I’m also making a Mackeson XXX Stout clone for December… 

Also thinking about making a Baltic Porter (Just sounds delicious) and a breakfast stout (Oatmeal and Coffee – Cause that’s what I eat for breakfast. )

 Oh well, enough rambling…