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Brewing Day
Grapefruit IPA time!

Grapefruit IPA time!

Gruit round 2

Gruit round 2

Brewing with the barons.
It's bottling day!

It’s bottling day!

Anyone ever bottled 20 gals of beer in one day before?
Gravity's a little high

Gravity’s a little high

Looks a little high. This is the gravity at the start of the boil. We might have to water back.
Looks like the Beer Barons are making a DIPA!!

Looks like the Beer Barons are making a DIPA!!

You know your making a double IPA when you have to check to see if the brew shop has enough hops before you check the grain! Thanks Surf Brew!
Sunday Fun Day

Sunday Fun Day

Grilling and brewing!
Big Arm Brune

Big Arm Brune

Started around 10:30 The Beer Barons showing support! 11:25 – added around 6 g of epson salt and .5 g of table salt to match the Belgium water profile 11:29 – big arm making star-san 11:45 adding 48 quarts of water at 160° 11:50 – the Big Arm adding the flaked barly 2:38 started the boil
Rad Red

Rad Red

9:20 Let’s start! We take everything out.   9:40 Adding water We add about 22 gallons to the Hot Liquer Tank We want to hit 160.1° F   10:27 Hit 160°   10:36 Added the grain Grain Temp @ 145° we need to add the heat to rais the temp dropped to 140°   10:41...
Honey Orange 2

Honey Orange 2

  Ok So here is our second try at the Ojai Honey Orange. The last time we primed our bottle with corn syrup and it took some time to carbonate. Hopefully this time it will come out perfect.   Started with 21 gallons of water.   11:35 Started the burner on the hot liquer tank. looking for...
Our first BeerSmith IPA

Our first BeerSmith IPA

So here are the notes:   10:45 – started to add the water We are using 14 gallons of Ojai water and 5 gallons of RO water We want to hit a london water profile so we added 2g table salt 6.4g epsom salt 6.4g baking soda Water temp is at 65°   11:13 –...
Honey Basil Ale Notes

Honey Basil Ale Notes

Ok, so, another week another brew day. This week we chose to brew a Honey Basil Ale. I found the recipe in this months Brew Magazine and I thought it looked pretty tasty. We have been wanting to brew a different kind of beer. Something with some fruit or a cool spice. This recipe fit the bill...
Day 1 for the Dead Ringer IPA

Day 1 for the Dead Ringer IPA

So it looks like everything is working well. This is the Dead Ringer IPA that we made yesterday. It’s a little on the warm side in the closet (high 70’s) but yeast seem happy.