batch #103 - Heather Ale

Here's to SPRING, and the happy appearance of flowers everywhere!  This batch of my Heather Ale landed 78 bottles and one 5-liter keg in my cellar, all best tasted after May 25.

Due to Noah's request, I am beginning with this batch, to post my recipes in the messages area below each post.  Let me know how it turns out, if you brew a batch yourself, and please save me a bottle!

MT

HAMs Team Brew: Whiskey Barrel Baltic Porter

Seven homebrewers in the Roaring Fork HAM's Homebrewers Club got together and brewed a 55-gallon batch of Baltic Porter, and aged it for a couple of months in a decommisioned barrel from Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey.  I helped them to create a nice label for the bottles they planned to put away, and even labels for the kegs they planned to fill.  Homebrewer Tony May created the "pigman in a barrel" club logo for the label.
I can't wait to taste their work at the next Club meeting, May 10!

batch #102: Mountain Winter Trappist Ale

A new Trappist Ale Yeast has come to live in my carboys, and I'm feeding them some wonderful barley, hops, and mountain water.  I keep them happy, and yes, they will keep me and my friends very happy also!
Cheers!

53 bottles

batch #101: Holy Habanero, THEY'RE BACK!!

Yes, the rollercoaster monks are back, this time cruising in to visit Pandora, the magical planet in the recent blockbuster movie, "AVATAR". I wonder where they'll be heading next?

Cheers!

40 bottles

BATCH #100! - Yak Porter

Here's to the end of a long winter drought in my homebrewing practice. This Porter has a rich nutty flavor, and a significant kick, at 8.3% abv. Have yourself a nice, cool water chaser! I borrowed this Yak porter photo from JKirby's Travelpod.com blog. This label is in honor of a local Yak herd at Sustainable Settings Ranch in Carbondale, CO.

38 bottles

Champagne Cider Season 2009

Cider pressed from three different trees this Autumn:

Grange Cider Apple is from Billy's front orchard, small yellow-red cider apple on the highway fence line, picked in the peak of ripeness in October;

Zordel Cider Apple is from Mary Lou Zordel's yellow delicious apple, picked and pressed in the peak of its ripeness in October;

ICE Cider was picked and pressed in late November, from Joan Remsbecher's cider apple tree in the rear yard of Butch's Seafood Bar, when the apples had frozen hard and thawed several times.  This was the sweetest cider of the season, and I hope it will be among the best champagne ciders I've ever bottled.

Cheers!

Pumpkin Ale! Happy Thanksgiving! - Batch #99