Tuesday 20 December 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Hell Gate in Fermenter #3, Belfry Brown in Fermenter #2. Fermenter #1 is asking for Hellsmoke Porter. The new smoker has arrived and has been assembled. Now to do some smoking...
Getting closer on new home for the brewery, keeping fingers and toes crossed. Much still to be worked out.
Sunday 20 March 2011
March 20, 2011A fresh batch of
Hellsmoke Porter is in Fermenter No. 2. Brewed last Sunday, some of it will be on Cask at Blue Point Brewing Company’s
7th Annual Cask Ales Festival on April 9th.
Hell Gate Golden Ale made its
debut at The Cortland in Bay Shore the week before last, it’s back at
The Cortland, as well as
Bistro 25 in Sayville and
Luce & Hawkins in Jamesport. I’m working on it to more locations soon.
I’m working on getting
Long Island Potato Stout into bottles and kegs to various locations.
Will be working on more batches of the Hellsmoke and Hell Gate as well as a few other things -- including getting a big (for me, 93 gallons vs 10) of
Vlad the Inhaler out this Spring. It should be on rotation through the Summer.
Saturday 05 March 2011
March 5, 2011
Haven’t blogged in a while, here’s what’s been happening lately...
(1) A few words about my bottlesI’m now force-carbonating before bottling most of my beers, rather than carbonating in the bottle. A few bottles got out that were not as carbonated as they should have been -- I’ll work on getting that right for any beers that need in-bottle carbonation. Apologies to anyone who purchased any that weren’t right, please do let me know.
Have switched from the old 22-ounce (“bomber”) bottles to 16-ounce bottles from Quebec. Well, at least I
thought they were 16-ounce bottles when I bought them. Turns out they are 16.9 ounces -- but I’ve been filling them to 16-ounce levels, which is 3 inches from the top of the bottle. So if you got one and think it’s short, it’s really 16 ounces. I’m starting to fill the bottles to 16.9 ounces since it otherwise looks short.
(2) Smoking againHave been smoking malt a few mornings this week (before heading off to work at the “day job”). Will be smoking more today to have enough ready to brew another batch of Hellsmoke Porter.
(3) What’s heading out the doorHellsmoke Porter and Long Island Potato Stout in the above-mentioned 16-ounce bottles.
Will be getting more Long Island Potato Stout out soon, need to clean more kegs first.
A bit of the Hell Gate Golden Ale will be heading out this coming week, word on where and when will be posted on the
Facebook page as well as here.
(4) What’s nextWill be brewing up more of the
mild-mannered ale for the Blue Point Cask Festival, depending on feedback it may become a Spring/Summer seasonal. Also for Summer, will be bringing back my old homebrew
Harborfields HefeWeizen. And will also be smoking up lots of wheat this Spring and Summer for
Vlad the Inhaler.
Monday 25 October 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Kegs and bottles of Hellsmoke Porter are conditioning and carbonating. Vlad the Inhaler is just in bottles at this point, those are also conditioning.
Test batches of Long Island Potato Stout and Hellgate Golden Ale are fermenting away, as is another 3-BBL batch of Hellsmoke Porter.