So,
The Beehive Brew off results came in last month and Quinn and I won a few awards and received wonderful feedback on all of our beers. We took gold again in Stout with a new Sven The Spartan Imperial Resistance Stout, we had a score of 44 or 45 out of 50. We also took Gold and Silver in Mead with a couple of Braggots. Gold was Brad The Braggart Braggot and Silver was for Your Peach Braggot Is In Another Castle. Last year Brad The Braggart sucked very bad, so we took notes, modified the hell out of the recipe and won gold. Those judges really know what they are doing.
We also won a little side award for Silver in an unofficial "Best Name" competition, we got a cert. and everything. It was for Sven. As you may have guessed we have already brewed a couple more things since the competition. There are a few fruit meads bubbling away in the beer room and a English Style Barley Wine that is still in primary that took WAY too much time to brew. By the end of the brew day both Quinn and I wanted to take a nap and our significant others wanted to kill us. That, my friend, is the sign of a successful brew day.
We have had a couple set backs, a couple of our brews caught a brett infection, so... we had to take drastic and expensive action. New buckets/glass, new auto-siphon and hoses. I hope we caught it so it doesn't sneak into our future beers.
Quinn and I have some really great ideas coming up. I'm sure we'll have another version of Quinns legendary "Dolphins Monocle" Wit-bier, another Sven as well as some new things in the next couple of months. The temp it just right for most ale yeasts, so we should get those fellers bubbling before the snow hits.
---Ricky
