It has been over a month since I brewed. Isn't that the sadest thing you've heard?
Well clearly, I haven't gone away from brewing, I just got busy at work. And kids having concerts at school. And being sick for 4 days. And mandatory work parties. And on and on and on.
Last night when I was packing up beers to mail to friends, I was talking with the girl child. She said "Number 98, Daddy? That means only 2 more brews and you are at 100!" Which I replied "No, 99 is in the fermenter- my NEXT beer is 100!"
I know, it's just a number, but it is a milestone too.
So I'm making a 10%, all-Centennial hopped IPA as the next beer.
Another brew I have coming up is a "Game of Thrones" brew- I am House of Arryn. Whatever that is. I clearly need to do some research, but one of the guys said "I don't want to see a MILK chocolate stout! Ha ha ha" If anyone can clue me in, that'd be great.
Our 12 Days of Christmas collaboration went great- we had a PERFECT get together. So fun. I now have 21 homebrews which were crafted just for our enjoyment- pretty damn awesome. We all had great looking labels, tasty brews- I mean- it was awesome.
Just bottled a Graf which is an 80% cider, 20% malt brew. So the cider gets some body. I really don't like homebrew ciders in general- too dry. I added the malt to help bump up the boy and complexity.
Brew on my friends, and Happy Holidays!
House of Arryn you can do a quick google search on. There's tons on the Wiki of Ice and Fire:
ReplyDeletehttp://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/House_Arryn
The "MILK chocolate" reference is to a scene in the HBO series where the Lady of House Arryn is nursing her six-year old child, Robert. It was particularly disturbing not only that a six-yr old would be nursing but if memory serves me, the scene was quite graphic and the child actor was just 10-years old at the time of filming.