Double Play Wheat Redux

Check out this clip, shot less than 18 hours fter pitching. Note: I used the olive oil method, hence no aeration, plus a little bit of yeast nutrient in addition to the Wyeast 1010 smack pack...

Die dunklen Bieren

Here's a picture of the Munich Dunkel (left) and the Doppelbock (right), after both finished primary. Their FG's were 1.015 and 1.018, respectively.

BJCP Styles Updated

The BJCP released a minor update to the guidelines, details at www.bjcp.org

We'll consider our work done up until now under the 2004 guide, hereafter our efforts will be done with the 2008 version.

Update: German Pils, Marzen

The German Pils is now out of secondary and into a keg for lagering. The FG was 1.018, which is high so I'm going to top it off with some distilled water to get it down to about 1.012. Volume is 4 .25 gallons.

The Marzen is beautiful! The color is spot on and it's mmmmalty, and the FG stands at 1.014. Volume is 4.75 gallons.

I'd rather be over than under :)

First month - 8 styles done.

We seem to be well on our way to getting all 28 styles done. As of yesterday, we had 8 styles brewed -- over 1/4 of the way through the list in the first month.

I don't think Ryan and I will keep up this pace once we get past the strong beers. We're running out of carboys at this point, so we may need to take a break soon!