St. Pattys Uber Stout

Technically, my name for this beer violates label laws, good thing I'm not selling bottles.

Another modified Mr. Beer recipe. Ironically I finished off the X-mas Stout while brewing. This is based on the intermediate St. Patty's stout refill kit. I then added 4 cups of corn sugar and steeped 1/4 lb of Chocolate Malt for 30 mins.

Final gravity is at 1.0509, definitely read it right this time, which corresponds to 6.25% potential ABV (I'm aiming at 5-6%). Color and smell is promising.

Final on X-mas stout, Hop-killa 2

So I finally figured out my discrepency with the ABV on the X-mas stout. The third scale on my hydrometer is brix....which is also in %. I was reading the Brix content as the ABV content. Final ABV reading out of the keg (sampke allowed to go flat to eliminate effect of dissolved CO2) was 3.2%. Little disappointing, but makes for an extremely drinkable, and tasty beer.

Peoples came out with the second edition of Hop-killa, their DIPA. Very smooth, which is surprising because it came out at 104 IBU!!! Also very dangerous, since it is 8.5%. On Thursday (pint night), the old Chem Eng professor next to me got royally fucked up by insisting he could handle two after already having some Teddy Mack. Kinda hilarious, although I feel bad for Chris and Jess who had to deal with him.

After work today (yay saturday?) I'm going to brew up my St. Pattys day special. Going to use the chocolate malt again (bit more this time), and a high end safale yeast.

"X-mas Stout"

I just kegged what I'm calling X-mas Stout. Final gravity was 1.003 (damn near water). My triple gauge hygrometer calls that ~5%, but a few online calculators call it 2.8% (??). Mr. Beer says the unmodified kit will be 3.7, and mine should be a bit higher, so I'm tending to believe the hygrometer. I'll do some research tomorrow to figure it out. When the keg is ready, I'll do some research the old fashioned way as well.

-James

brewing, etc...

Just checked my modified Mr. Beer stout. Temp adjusted gravity right now is 1.011, which corresponds to roughly 4.5% abv compared to the original gravity. There is still a bit of a fizz, so it needs a couple days before kegging.

Flavor is better than I expected, very mellow, the chocolate malt definitely hits home.

Last night was a bit of a beer crawl. Started at Peoples, where they had a nitro Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown starts off as an amazing beer (imperial brown ale). Insert a bit of N2 and you have and amazing-er beer. Nitro tends to mellow out anything, and mellowing an already mellow beer makes for a very dangerous beverage. Especially at 7.2% abv.

At peoples I heard rumors of a few places having Amazon Princess IPA left. This was a small batch brewed way back in December which was an amazingly smooth IPA. I drove up to Hunters west, partially to actually get my car warm. At first I was disappointed because they only had "IPA" and Mr. Brown on their board. I asked the bartender which IPA they had (typically the IPA handle is for Mound Builder only) and he said "I think we're still on something or other princess." I forgave him his insult and enjoyed the pint.

Ended up at Chumleys where I ran into the Cooks group and the night went crazy from there...now to bus downtown and recover my car.