Tuesday, August 4, 2009

MUDMAN Dirt Brown Ale #95


Here's Mud in your Eye! An awe-inspiring image from Outside Magazine, June 2005, by Dawn Kish. Yucko!
Coming to bottles and mini-kegs in the middle of August!
Cheers!

CPR Ales #94


I confess to an "early learning curve" in my all-grain brewing process, and I failed to properly crush the grain for the primary fermentation of this ale, resulting in a very weak beer. Not to worry, I simply set aside an evening for some grain mill adjustments, and an additional mash of 12 pounds of grain. Then I removed three gallons of the primary, and replaced it with three gallons of a very rich grain mash. The yeast, which had previously eaten through the primary in a record 30 hours, as if to say, "Is that all you've got?", proceeded to chow down for another three days, and I harvested some very nice ales. Michael Moore graces this label, in honor of his ground-breaking movie, "SICKO", a seminal piece of work intended to initiate CPR on our health insurance industry.
Cheers!

Hillary's ESB #93


To the right is the Guest Label Contest Winner from the 2008 Homebrewers Ball. Agustin Goba is our lucky winner, and I'm ashamed it took so long to brew this beer, but that's another story for another time.
Cheers, Agustin!

On the left, from the same grain mash but brewed with my Saison Yeast, is a heavily-hopped Belgian. Yum!