Another brew day come and gone. A pretty uneventful brew, save for the broken fridge we found when looking to get the fermentation going on the brew. In two weeks, we'll probably be ready for bottling and we'll see how this highly-experimental beer turns out.
The second competition we entered was at the Orange County Fair. We were out of our English Pale, so we entered our American Stout and our Sweet Stout. We have not yet received notes back yet, but our American Stout did not place, however, our Sweet Stout won first place! Both Scott and I (Blake) are extremely excited with this win and we hope to make a full 5-gallon batch in the future (right after our Imperial Brown).
If you are a home-brewer and attending the private party at the fair today, look for us and our first place Sweet Stout. And thanks for your support!
Today we removed the cherries from our Olde English style Cherry Ale. The process went pretty smoothly until we realized our second bucket does not have a lid. Luckily, all four of our 3 gallon fermenters were available, so we quickly transferred to that, added the Brettanomyces, and put in the fridge to ferment.
