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[inahandbasket]

Beer geekery:

Brewed up a Belgian Trippel style beer yesterday morning. It finally started fermenting by this morning, we were worried about it for awhile there. It's bubbling along merrily now, or at least it was when I left this morning and so should still be. I'm really looking forward to drinking this one.

Bought out a local store of the last bottles of Unibrue's "Edition 2004" which we'd dispaired of finding any remaining bottles of about a year ago. They had three bottles left, so we bought them all, drank the one we'd been saving, and still have 3 hanging around for future events. This is probably the best beer I've ever found. We also got an "Edition 2005" to try and see if it compares to the '04. It didn't a year ago, but it was really young then, so maybe by now it'll be better.

Brewed another gallon of ginger ale last week, but it didn't start fermenting for some reason and now has mold on top.
BUMMER!
Got ingredients so that we can try that again. This time I'll make a yeast starter I think.


Belgian Tripple
Batch Size 5 gal.
1.25 lbs. - American Vienna
.5 lbs. - Belgian Aromatic
.25 lbs. - Belgian Biscuit
7 lbs. - Dry Extra Light Malt Extract
1 lbs. - Candi Sugar Clear
1.7 oz. - Hallertau Hersbruck, boiled 60 min.
1 oz. - East Kent Goldings, boiled 15 min.
.5 oz. - Dried Orange Peel, boiled 15 min.
.25 oz. - Goldings (Whole, 5.00 %AA) boiled 3 min.
.5 oz. - Dried Orange Peel, boiled 3 min.
Yeast - White Labs WLP530 Abbey Ale

Original Gravity: ~1.077
Estimated Alcohol/vol: ~9%

Comments

[enmascarado.livejournal.com]

If you know the right person to ask and the place isn't packed, you can get quite the selection of aging beers from Downtown in Davis. I'd be willing to bet there's more bottles of the 2004 than they had on the shelf.

[inahandbasket]

Hmm... interesting.
Your ideas intrigue me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I haven't seen a bottle of '04 on their shelves in some time, so I'd assumed they were out. I'll have to inquire.

[enmascarado.livejournal.com]

I've put a lot of time and effort into getting recognized by the right people in the store, just so I could have even more access to expensive beers.

[inahandbasket]

my kinda guy. ^_^

[komos.livejournal.com]

Bring homebrew for Alan and you'll make a fast friend.

[inahandbasket]

he the tall skinny guy with the funny beard?

[komos.livejournal.com]

That's the one. ^_^

[enmascarado.livejournal.com]

the tall skinny guy with the funny sideburns is another good acquaintence to make, although Alan is the best point of contact.