Thursday, August 30, 2012

I took a bit of a hiatus from brewing over the summer because of family plans and garden chores, but I've got the shop cleaned up and am back at it again.

 The latest brew is a cream ale partial grain that I tweaked a little to be easy on the hops. I made a full 5 gallon keg and am planning on taking it up to Mississippi with me in October for a peanut boil/shin dig. Nice medium gravity fall beer and easy on the hops so as not to be a shock to the non beer snobs in the crowd.
For this brew, I took one of my Corney kegs and converted it into a primary fermenter.  This allowed me to keep the beer from coming into contact with oxygen until it pours into a glass. 

I was pretty fond of this method, and I think I'll be using it a lot in the future.