Wedding Batch #3: Enjoy By 09.28.13
The last of the three wedding beers is one I’ve brewed a couple times before. I love big hoppy IPAs, and I knew everyone at the wedding would be expecting an amazing IPA on tap. After brewing an Enjoy By Clone a few months ago, it was an easy decision to brew that recipe for the wedding.
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Wedding Batch #2: California Love
Here we are with wedding batch number two. This beer is practically identical to the California Common I brewed a couple months ago. I wanted something malty, flavorful, while still being very drinkable. Not too sweet, not too bitter, and not too blah. This Common struck all the right chords.
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Wedding Batch #1: Hoppily Ever After
It’s finally time to get cracking with the batches of beer for my wedding. For the first beer, I wanted something light and approachable, but still something very flavorful. I flipped through my brewing notebook, looking at past batches, hoping something with strike a chord. Sure enough, a batch from last spring was exactly what I was looking for, my Hoppy Summer Wheat.
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Enjoy By Revisited (Enjoy By 09.14.13)
My Fiance and I’s wedding is right around the corner, so it’s definitely time to finish planning the beers for reception. As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I decided that my Enjoy By clone would be the IPA I would make. It’s just so damn delicious once it hits your lips. Why brew it again since I just brewed a super successful clone of this beer a few months ago? Well, I’d like to brew it with WLP090, and I just wanted to be double sure it wouldn’t have any unintended consequences. (Plus, why not have 5 more delicious gallons of this beer on tap?)
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Pliny The Elder Clone 3.0
Here we go again. Another attempt at nailing Pliny the Elder. It’s been a few months since I’ve had a nice big IPA on tap, and I’ve been itching to brew this one since February. It’s time. On top of that, my friend Kiernan has been splitting 10 ten gallon batches with me lately, and PTE is one of his favorite beers.
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California Love (Cali Common)
I’ve been itching to make another California Common for a long time now, as it’s a beer style I really love. It has all the malty character of a good amber ale, but with less hop character and a crisper smoother finish. I figured this would be a nice easy beer to end a brewing hiatus with, as it should be fairly point-and-shoot. This was also the first batch where my friend Kiernan actually started brewing with me. We split a 10 gallon batch, and he’s starting to learn the process.
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Honey Red ‘Blonde’ (aka, the Emma Stone Ale)
We’ll it’s been a little while since my last post; sometimes life just gets in the way a little. Nothing serious, but planning a wedding and transitioning between jobs takes it’s fair share of time. Anyway, this is the last of the three beers I served at my at my sister’s graduation party.
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Blind Pig Clone 2.0
As I mentioned in my Micro Pale Ale post, we’ve got a big party coming up very soon, and I need to get some beers cranked out fast. All my friends will definitely expect a good IPA on tap, but I need something I can turn out in three weeks flat. After flipping through some past recipes, I realized the Blind Pig clone I brewed awhile back would be a good fit. It’s a little lower in alcohol than the typical IPA, and the bright crisp hop notes taste good even when the beer is young.
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Micro Pale Ale
In keeping with my current trend of brewing a low-gravity session beer every few batches, I’m brewing this to kick off a set of beers with WLP090. I wanted to do something a little different this time, so I’m going to brew a very low gravity American Pale Ale. It’ll be something similar to Lagunitas Daytime IPA, or even Firestone’s Mission St. Pale ale, only smaller yet.The goal is to keep the OG at or around 1.035, but hop this beer as I would a 1.055 Pale Ale.
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East Valley Crossfit IPA
I’m a member at a local Crossfit gym. As every Crossfit affiliate is independently owned and operated, there are some awesome ones, and less than awesome ones. I’m really thankful to be part of an awesome one, and an awesome one that loves craft beer. East Valley Crossfit hosts a Crossfit or lifting event a few times per year, and whenever feasible, I try to brew a batch for those events.
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