We've gotten our first snow here in Denver. Monday it was 81 degrees here in Denver, and now on Tuesday night, it starts snowing: welcome to Denver. Luckily the roads were still warm from the weekend and despite the ~6-7 inches of snow, the roads are clear. Also, now that it has snowed, Elky can finally come out of the garage and join the rest of the fall decorations and hopefully bring the gator football team some luck against Georgia this weekend.
The beer is very tasty this year (not surpisingly). Not as roasty as last year, but already very very smooth. We used a different yeast strain this year that is more neutral and you can tell compared to last year's brew. We are both very happy with it and after we've finished this pint we'll sample the one that received some oak aging. Hopefully that one will be just as good. I am slightly worried about it as I have learned that less oak for longer periods of time works better to impart a deeper, more rounded oak flavor; we only had the beer on the oak for 10 days or so, and when we bottled it was very oaky. Time will have helped mellow the flavors, but hopefully they are still there.
Cooper had his 6 week checkup today and now weighs 10 lb 9 oz! He went from the 18th percentile in weight at 2 weeks to the 52nd at 6 weeks; mama's got some good milk apparently.
We dont have any brews really planned in the near future, but the next one will be a dark rye saison. We didnt brew a Christmas beer this year, but we will drink last year's Spiced Winter Ale that will have hopefully mellowed out much more over the last 12 months. Until next time,
P.S. Below is a pic of Scrappy so you can get an idea of how much snow we've received over the last 24 hours.
