Not much Brewing this week…

It’s been a bit slow brew-wise around here the last 2 weeks. Mostly, I’m waiting on Classic American Pilsner v2.0 to finish fermenting out. It should be done in the next couple of days and once it’s chilled down to lagering temperature and into a keg for storage things should pickup a bit. We’ve also had a bit of a cold snap here this week, highs in the low 40s. So I’m having a go at crash cooling the Rye IPA in the garage and then I can get that kegged up in the next couple of days. I would have liked to have done it sooner, but CAP v2.0 is taking up the refrigeration space presently and it’s currently holding at about 50° F.

Somehow, on top of all of that, I managed to drain the kegerator over the holidays, so I’m draft beer-less. I did give away quite a bit of that last California Common batch, so it went quicker than usual. Perhaps I should look into better planning/scheduling of the brew days to prevent this in the future. At least the next couple of batches On Deck should be fairly quick brews. Blonde Ale, which I’m going to brew this weekend, and the Weizens shouldn’t need a very long fermentation time. 10 days or so to ferment out and another 1-2 weeks to carbonate in the keg.

I’m definitely attempting to step up the number of batches I brew this year. I didn’t keep track exactly, but I finished up somewhere around 10-12 last year. I probably would have brewed more, but I couldn’t drink it all fast enough. A good problem to have I guess. For 2008 I’d like to try to double that and brew about every 2 weeks or so. Hopefully I don’t run out of cold storage space, but between entering some competitions, doing more experimental brewing, splitting batches, trying different yeast strains or specialty grains and just plain giving more of it away, I think I’ll manage.

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