Mary and I will sit down and actually review the beer ourselves (I have a review of our porter written that I need to type up), but I just wanted to share some comments we got from the home brewer’s club last night.
I went to a Tampa Bay BEERS meeting last night and after listening to a speech from Jeff from Boulder Brewing, everyone got up and went around trying everyone else’s homebrews.
I brought in two of the belgian wit, but was too nervous to walk around by myself so my gracious and personable friend DT walked around and introduced the beer for me. About twenty people tried the beer and all said it was good!
It got a hearty nod from the brewer at St. Somewhere and positive feedback and reviews from Jeff from Boulder :D
Some of the comments we got were:
One guy said he didn’t normally drink light beer but he liked it. And then later came by and asked for another sample!
That’s all I can remember for now. It was really exciting!
<3, c.
January 8th:These are pictures from our first brewing day. We are making a porter called “Fat Man Porter.” Mary picked the recipe out of a book when she bought the brewing supplies. It’s a simple recipe with chocolate grains, malt extract, and two types of hops. Our friend Miles, who used to home brew a lot, came over and led us through the process.
We ended up boiling the malt longer than we were supposed to, because it never settled down from a rolling boil, and some of the volume boiled away, so we ended up with less than the five gallons the recipe is supposed to yield, getting around 3.75 or 4 gallons.
We measured the abv to be around 11% (wow!) and left the beer to sit and ferment in Mary’s laundry room in an ice bucket.
It has been 10 days and we will be bottling the beer tonight, again with the help of Miles. We are very excited. Expect more pictures soon!
