June 10, 2010

Thus, proposed brewing schedule for a year

Brew days are almost all Sundays. Get some sun, do chores, run errands on Saturdays, then an all-grain brew on Sunday. Fall weekends compete with UF Gator home football games. The football games will always win.

Jun 20 American Rye

Jun 27 Belgian Dark Strong Ale, solera start
Jul 11 At ICES meeting
Jun 18 Just returned from ICES meeting
Aug 15 Lagunitas Censored Ale clone from CYBI
Aug 22 Scottish 70/- Ale
Aug 25 Flanders Red 2010
Sep 12 Belgian Blonde (wish it were twins!)
Sep 19 Classic American Pilsener, my first lager attempt
Oct 03 All Brett. or Jolly Pumpkin clone, CYBI
Oct 10 Cumbrian Double Brown Ale, yum
Oct 24 California Common
Nov 28 Solera #2, BDSA
Dec 12 Northern German Alt
Dec 19 Brown Porter
Jan 23 Munich Helles
Feb 20 Kolsch
Mar 20 Maibock/Helles Bock
Mar 28 Solera #3, BDSA
Apr 10 Swartzbier

Added 23-Jun-10

I've just been to a web application called TimeGlide that can generate a timeline. I used it to put in my last homebrew, Moose Drool clone to give it a try. Here it is so far. I'll be adding all of the above brewing sessions later and the ones prior to 22-Jun-2010 once these are done. What do you think of TimeGlide?

A link to my public homebrewing timeline.

Here is some code I copied from TimeGlide to embed this here in my homebrew blog



June 09, 2010

Future drinking schedule

Assumption: each corny keg has forty eight 12 oz. serving portions in it after filling, and I will drink two per day, which is what various health sites recommend for a man. Thus, each keg will last for 24 days, give or take. There are quite a few styles I have yet to try. Some I don't have a strong reason or feeling to try. I've already brewed some of my favorite styles I like after drinking a few craft brews of them.

So, here is the 'Rick's drinking list', with the date I'll need to start drinking them and the name of the beer or style. The start date is one day after emptying the previous keg. Thus, this beer should already be in my 'dispensing' temperature controlled chest 'freezer' and fully carbonated. Hm. Why won't the following table start just after this paragraph? There are NO HTML tags between the close of the paragraph and the start of the table?




















Start date
Brew
Now
English Best Bitter
12-Jun
Moose Drool
06-Jul
Oud Bruin (just for a few days as I'm going on a trip)
18-Jul
American Rye Ale
12 Aug
Scottish 70/- Ale
05-Sep
Cumbrian Double Brown Ale
01-Oct
Belgian Blonde Ale (maybe, maybe not)
26-Oct
Brown Porter
20-Nov
Classic American Pilsener
14-Dec
California Common
2011

07-Jan
Lagunitas Censored Ale
31-Jan
Northern German Altbier
24-Feb
Wry Smile Rye IPA
20-Mar
Munich Helles
13-Apr
Kolsch
06-May
Maibock/Helles Bock
31-May
Swartzbier

June 08, 2010

Brewing history of RickBrew through May 22, 2010

This is my second year of new-brewing. I've got a lot of styles I want to try, so I can better pick those I do best and also like to drink (of course,otherwise, what's the point?). Since discovering sour ales or wild brews, I'm trying more of these, even though they have an aging / conditioning time of a year or more.


















Date Brew Description
2009
Sep 26 Waldo Lake Amber Northern Brewing all-grain Limited Edition Kit of an American Amber Ale with Denny's 50 yeast strain
Oct 08 Raspberry WheatAmerican Wheat with 1 can Oregon raspberry puree added to secondary
Oct 24 Wry Smile Rye IPANorthern Brewer all-grain Limited Edition Kit of an American IPA with Rye malt and, again, Denny's 50 yeast strain from Wyeast.
Nov 11 Petite Saison d'EteNorthern Brewer Limited Edition kit with Wyeast 3711? Saison yeast strain
2010
Jan 06Notre Dame d'Golden ValleyA Northern Brewer extract Limited Edition kit of an obvious Orval clone, making this a Belgian Special Ale style
Jan 17Golden DragonNorthern Brewer all-grain Limited Edition kit with Wyeast Belgian Golden Ale yeast. Actually a Belgian Dark Strong Ale style
Jan 24 Oud BruinFrom Brewing Classic Styles, all-grain. Secondary pitched with Al's Bugfarm III, a sour mix donated by Al of Burgundian Babble Belt forum fame
Feb 14 Dusseldorf AltbierCowboy Alt from Brewing Classic Styles all-grain (BCS from now on)
Mar 06California Common from BCS, all-grain
Mar 17 Lambic #1from BCS EXTRACT recipe, pitched with Al's Bugfarm III for secondary
Mar 25 Lambic #2from BCS EXTRACT recipe, pitched with Wyeast's lambic blend
May 02English Best Bitterfrom BCS. All-grain. WLP002 London ESB
May 09Oud Bruin 2010 annualfrom BCS, all-grain. Mixed secondary pitch - White Labs sour blend, Wyeast Roeselare blend - but VERY old, a bit of starter from Al's Bugfarm III
May 22Moose Drool cloneRecipe from The Jamil Show on Brewing Network, all-grain. "Can You Brew It". CLONED!