Well Happy New Year! Here's to a great 2013! It's been a LONG time since we have done any updates to this blog! April 2012 to be exact! OUCH! OK, to recap most of last year... We have added new equipment and replaced the FTCU with a Freezer and a Ranco temperature control unit Allowing us to ferment within 2 deg. of the yeast's spec published by White Labs! The Beer has been coming out MUCH tastier!. In June 2012 we entered the San Diego International Beer Festival's Home Brew competition! The Beers we entered were Death Row Red (Irish Red Ale), Hopical Parrot IPA, Our Agave Pale Ale and our Smoked Maple Bacon Brown Ale dubbed Bacon Explosion! Below is our line up!
Much to our surprise, we took FIRST PLACE in the Specialty category #23 for our Bacon Explosion! The Beer really is that good! It had aged for 8 months at that point and had finished out way beyond our expectations!
Since then I have bottled the rest of the batch and have had many different people tasting it from Professional Brewers to Home Brewers seeking feedback on how we can do better! The consensus was that the Beer is well balanced and has better aromas than it's actual taste (Although everyone said it's taste and finish was lovely). Based on that and some tweaks on our Award winning recipe, I decided to redevelop the recipe and came up with an Imperial Bacon Brown Ale for 2013's competition. Hopefully we can uphold our position! The new version of Bacon Explosion is now brewed and aging! I tasted the beer at the time of racking about a month ago and it was truly awesome! It has very good potential and we are hoping for the best!
As for the rest of 2012 and first month of 2013 we have been working on IPA recipes and developing some more specialty Beers to this years competition! I will talk about those as we brew them in more detail! In the mean time I do not intend on neglecting this blog as bad as last year. Just been to busy to keep it going. That will change with new and different content and stories related to Home Brewing! Thanks for checking us out!
Much to our surprise, we took FIRST PLACE in the Specialty category #23 for our Bacon Explosion! The Beer really is that good! It had aged for 8 months at that point and had finished out way beyond our expectations!
Since then I have bottled the rest of the batch and have had many different people tasting it from Professional Brewers to Home Brewers seeking feedback on how we can do better! The consensus was that the Beer is well balanced and has better aromas than it's actual taste (Although everyone said it's taste and finish was lovely). Based on that and some tweaks on our Award winning recipe, I decided to redevelop the recipe and came up with an Imperial Bacon Brown Ale for 2013's competition. Hopefully we can uphold our position! The new version of Bacon Explosion is now brewed and aging! I tasted the beer at the time of racking about a month ago and it was truly awesome! It has very good potential and we are hoping for the best!
As for the rest of 2012 and first month of 2013 we have been working on IPA recipes and developing some more specialty Beers to this years competition! I will talk about those as we brew them in more detail! In the mean time I do not intend on neglecting this blog as bad as last year. Just been to busy to keep it going. That will change with new and different content and stories related to Home Brewing! Thanks for checking us out!
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