Badwhale Brewing Club

[badwhale]

Whipped up a cream ale extract kit last friday while making 4 gallons of bean soup. Soon we will see.

Also ordered 3 more kits:

German Alt
Nut Brown something Rye
Chinook IPA

[badwhale]

Well, I kegged the Rye Brown Ale tonight, and tasted a little while checking the gravity. Pretty good!

I plan on doing the German Alt tomorrow, however I notice that it requires some secondary action, so I think what I'll do, is go one week in primary, and then immediately to that last IPA kit I have and then they should be both ready around the same time.

I have the Porter, Cream Ale and Brown Ale in the fridge right now.

[badwhale]

Friday night, I put the Altbier in the secondary. It had a pretty harsh alcohol smell in the primary, but I didn't want to let it go another week in there to tie up the primary.

Today, I brewed the Chinook IPA, and it is currently in the primary.

Have to decide what to get next. I think what I'll do is run this stash down, and get a keg of Celebration Ale for the holiday season, and maybe brew some bigger beers for when that kicks.

[badwhale]

Chinook has been racked to the secondary with a ghetto bung (film container.)

Anyway, I finially got the Porter to kick. Two pulls on friday and it was out. I have to get that keg out of there, clean it, and rack the Altbier in there.

[badwhale]

kicked the Cream Ale during a party.

The Altbier, I thought, tasted funny. Some other brewers sampling thought maybe it was subjected to infection, but others liked it.

Kegged the IPA, and I honestly think it sucks. It's drinkable, but it's not an IPA by any strech of my palate's expectations. I have concluded that this is a result of fermenting temp.

Now that it's cooler in the basement here, time to experiment with some of these again and see if I can do better. Need a little more low capital improvements, but I should be good.

Will

[badwhale]

I'm doing a dark cherry stout extract kit right now....from 4 years ago.

I have a session IPA that could go to keg, but i have to make a new beer fridge.

I have an imperial stout conditioning.