Well, I may not being brewing this week/end but there is ALWAYS something to do in the brewhouse! I have a Belgian IPA and a Strong Golden to keg up, 20 gallons of cider to check on and do something with or leave alone… Barley wine to bottle, and man, I have not even thought about all those meads since last summer!!! Bottling to do for the next round of comps coming up…
Phew. Now I am stressed. None of that is going to happen this week either.
Dry-hopped my second attempt at a Two-Hearted Ale clone. The first clone was very tasty, but it wasn’t quite on the mark for THA per se, and I realized that in halving it and making it partial-mash I had increased the percentage of Vienna seen in most of these recipes. This one seems good but I’m starting to think I liked the first one better! This was also my first attempt at using leaf hops for dry-hopping (with a sanitized chunk of pantyhose and some marbles). No brewing per se until mid-May.
The weather here is still cool enough to get in one more batch of alt. I can ferment it in my garage and it’ll stay in the 52-55 range. Got my yeast started yesterday.