Sippin' on Summits at the Springsteen Concert

Enjoyed a few Summit EPAs last night at the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert!!!   They played no stop for over 3.5 hours!!!  Over the course of the night Bruce crowd surfed the pit, brought an 88 year old on stage and danced with her, and had the crowd going all night!  No wonder they call him the Boss.

Cheers,

Philip

Spooky Wagon Pumpkin Ale

Spooky Wagon Pumpkin Ale

Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Type: All Grain	Date: 10/30/2012
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.000 gal	Brewer: Fluke Brewing
Boil Size: 6.090 gal	Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min	Equipment: Fluke Brew ( 5 Gal/19 L) - All Grain
End of Boil Volume 5.460 gal	Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 4.750 gal	Est Mash Efficiency 73.5 %
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage	Taste Rating(out of 50): 30.0
Taste Notes:

Ruby Imperial Red Ale

Ruby Imperial Red

American Amber Ale

Type: All Grain	Date: 9/12/2012
Batch Size (fermenter): 6.000 gal	Brewer: Philip Dunn
Boil Size: 8.195 gal	Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 90 min	Equipment: Fluke Brewing 5 Gal - All Grain
End of Boil Volume 6.500 gal	Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 5.500 gal	Est Mash Efficiency 75.0 %
Fermentation: Ale, Single Stage	Taste Rating(out of 50): 0.0
Taste Notes:

Hop Yard Build & Harvest! 2012 Part 4

A few months have passed since the last Hop Yard update. It is a busy time of year for us but we managed to find time to harvest our first batch of home grown hops. I will cut straight to the stats and spare you the agony of reading on anymore.

Our totals looked like this...

September 1st we harvested 6oz of mature, Cascade hops and used them to wet hop our first attempt at a Harvest Ale which turned out great.

Roughly a week later we harvested the remaining Cascade hops which totaled another 2lb of wet hops. After drying this equated to roughly 13oz of dried, leafy hops.

Finally, in the third week of September, we harvested the Centennial hops which equaled out to 0.5lb wet and after drying resulted in 1.5oz of dry leafy hops.

Monster Cascades ready for harvesting

Busy Week and a Broken Flask

Hey everybody!

Sorry for the lack of activity lately.  This fall has been crazy busy and unfortunately brewing has been put on the back burner.  To get back into the mix we have a big week planned.  Wednesday we will be brewing up another batch of the DangerRoss Pale Ale.  Followed by a double brew day Saturday,  where we will be brewing up our famous Octane Wayne IIPA and a new Pumpkin ale recipe.  In conjunction to brewing, we will have some meat cooking on the smoker.

Last night we made a starter for our upcoming brew day on Wednesday.  Everything was going smoothly and we were only 10°F away from pitching our yeast, and THEN....

Just Chillin'

OUR FLASK BROKE!!!

Broken Flask!!!

Luckily no brewer was hurt during the incident and the starter was saved.  We carefully transferred the starter to a growler, ensuring no glass ended up in our beer.  Look for more updates from our upcoming brew days!

Cheers,

Philip