Batch #165 - Juniper Brown Ale

"Slow Down Juniper Brown Ale" is another chapter in the juniper berry series, this time labeled to celebrate the "Slow Money" network, and our local chapter, the "2Forks Club", making zero-interest loans to local farmers and food entrepreneurs.  The local food revolution is underway, and we're all doing our parts to bring our food production and processing back, closer to home, to keep our resources within our communities, to regenerate our soil and our health.  This homebrew is also dedicated to the "Gift Economy", which advocates gifts of homebrew to like-minded friends, and gratitude for gifts given to me.  Just say NO THANK YOU to currency.

Rahr 2-Row malted barley
Dark Munich malt
Breiss Chocolate malt
US Golding whole leaf hops
Columbus whole leaf hops
Juniper berries
Saffbrew S-33 dry yeast
organic cane sugar for bottling

Brewed 2017.Jan.15

Batch #164 - Juniper Pale Ale

Beginning again to experiment with dried Juniper Berries as a bittering agent in addition to hops, this pale ale came out nicely.  Since the winning beer label from the "guest label contest" at the 2016 "Homebrewers Ball" (held in November to benefit Fat City Farmers and the "How We Grow" documentary film about our new young local farmers), was for a "frustrated farmer pale ale" label, designed by farmer Harper Kaufman, I asked her if she would like her prize to be a case of this juniper-infused pale ale, and she readily agreed.  A small reward for her monumental efforts to feed us!

Rahr 2-row malted barley
Abbey malt
Northern Brewer whole leaf hops
Juniper berries, dried
Saffbrew T-58 dry yeast
organic cane sugar for bottling

Brewed 2016.Nov.12

Batch #163 - Smoked Pumpkin Ale

Smoking and roasting an organic pumpkin given to me by Whitney Will of Roaring Gardens Greenhouse and Gardens, on my Big Green Egg roaster, I carved the flesh from the pumpkin and boiled it in the beer wort for 30 minutes, when I brewed the next day.  In hindsight, I should have boiled the pumpkin for only the last 15 minutes instead of 30, because it came out a bit "over-smoked", in my view.  However, many of my homebrew fans disagreed.  After aging the bottles for a few months, it has settled into a nice, though powerful, smoky beer.

Rahr Pale Ale malted barley
Dark Munich malt
English Brown malt
Crystal 120L malt
Columbus whole leaf hops
Centennial whole leaf hops
Safale S-04 dry yeast
organic cane sugar for bottling

Brewed 2016.Oct.15

Batch #162 - Habanero Red Ale

Celebrating a collaborative school greenhouse project, between Fat City Farmers, Co-Studio, the Basalt High School shop class, the Middle School science class and the Wrestling teams from High School and Middle School in Basalt Colorado.  Looking forward to seeing these youngsters develop a keen sense of building and growing!

2-row barley malt
"extra-special malt"
"crystal 120L malt
Cascade whole leaf hops
Saffbrew S-33 yeast
organic cane sugar

Brewed 2016.Sep.25