Cider Label Picture

So what you think? This is the pic we plan on using for background, just need to add the script.

Willy Blanks

BrewDay Pics

Unnamed Vanilla Coffee Stout-Brew Day

The batch has been brewed and is currently in hibernation for the mid-December time-frame.  Should be a good one; Erin and I had fun brewing this one for sure-until the kids got home and slowed the process down.  All that aside it is done and brewing as we speak, hope to crack the crown soon. Specific Gravity= O.G. - 1.050

Willy Blanks

Jack's Rotten Apple Hard Cider

So it keeps rolling on.  Fermentation has stopped after a week and a half in the secondary so got some conditioning going on-gonna wait till next thursday before bottling.  Hoping I can pick up another carboy or two so I can roll three brews at once, a nice ale would be nice but the Vanilla Coffee Stout is next up to be brewed on Monday.  Will keep the updates coming.

Willy Blanks

Welcome

So I have finally gotten off of my duff and invited everyone so welcome and feel free to post and comment as you see fit.  As you sign on I will give author priviliages-gracias, j.will

Jackassery and what next

So within recent days I have not gotten much sleep; not due to the wife wanting to spend more "quality time" with me, kids sick, school stressing me out or the to-do-list looming above-but beer. Not just any beer, but the beer of possibility. The beer that has not been made, but needs to be. It is actually rather comical when in your everyday drab banter between the zombies of this world that beer comes up. Everyone is an expert, regardless if they drink horse piss (Coor, Bud, MGD, etc.) or the good stuff. Also everyone has an ear to the word "homebrew" for to them it signals: A-free beer; B-a welcome opinion on what they think should be made; and C-an attempt to be made by them to perform the jackassery that accompanies their apparent lack of knowledge on the subject of homebrew by supplementing it with a form of mental diarrhea, spitting out any form of information that seems to float around in the hollow shell of a dome they possess.  Furthermore I plan on NEVER doing the Betty Crocker form of homebrewing again-I found no personal satisfaction, no brain wave development, but did the duty for a first batch and it was fun hanging with my buddy Mark. Where now...? We have come up with some possibilites that I feel great about-so look out jackass's the brew is coming....

Pumpkin King's Rotten Apple

The cider is now brewing!