Wrye Wit #2

Remember how last time I said this had to be the best beer ever before I'd brew it again?

About that.

Brand New Spawn

My friend Allan and his wife just had a new son, who they named Paul. In trying to come up with ideas for a beer to brew for this new son, I turned to the Apostle Paul, which led to this recipe, that I'm calling Paul's Road to Damascus.

Summit Saison Update

With fermentation going, I've added 13 ounces of regular table sugar to the beer. This should increase the gravity about 7 points, bringing it up to 1.068. I'll probably pitch some champagne yeast tomorrow or so.

Summit Saison

Ever since I first tried my friend CJ's summit APA, the only thing I could think about was how much I wanted to use those hops in a saison. So I did.

Recipe was pretty straightforward - mostly pilsner with a little munich and wheat thrown in for good measure. Hopping additions at 60, 10, and 0 (.25 oz, 1 oz, and 1 oz respectively - those Summit hops are potent for bittering) to give it some flavor and aroma. Going to add some plain table sugar after fermentation gets going a bit to push things along and if fermentation slows before I'm ready for it to quit, I've got my champagne yeast ready.

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Purple Pilsner - Round Two

I don't think I posted about the first time I tried to do this beer - it predated this blog by a bit. A buddy of mine had a baby girl he named Violet, so I got a hankering to try out the black rice mentioned in Radical Brewing that mentioned a purple color. I used a pound of it in a straight pils and while it was purple-ish in the fermenter, it came across more as gold in the glass. Tasted great, but the look was wrong.

The Naming of Beers

I've been thinking about the naming of beers, and the dork in me keeps wanting to come out (it doesn't take much for it to break through the thin veneer of normality).

Right now I've been kicking around the idea of naming each beer as though it were an actual family member, mostly started by me wanting to have a Crazy Uncle Aaron's Seasonal Special. I could have a barleywine named Grandpa X's Old Something, or something. And a Brother David Abbey Something for a dubbel. I figure through this I could get a Grandpa, Grandma, Father, Mother, Uncle, Aunt, Brother, Sister, and Cousin without getting too strained. I may have to play with it a little more, but mostly I wanted to record the thought before it got lost in the maelstrom of monotony.