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With a day off from work I was able to wax dip the most recent vintage of our Anniversary Barleywine. Cant wait to try it in January 2013.



This is a picture of the resultant blow off from the RIS. I should have started with a blow-off hose, but there is one on there now at least. Even today, about 9 days after brewing, the beer is still bubbling a couple of times a minute. We'll check a gravity in a couple of week to see what the alcohol finished at before it gets secondaried for 4 weeks.

As for the 2 current beers on tap, Steam and Brown Ale, we are really enjoying both. The Steam is just a nice, simple, every-day kind of beer. It doesnt have any flavors that will blow you away, but it is a very good beer. Originally, I didnt like it that much, but I've come around to appreciate what the beer is all about. Nothing fancy, just simple.

As for the brown, it's drinking really good right now too. I still dont get much of the 1 oz of dry hops, but other than that, I cant complain about it at all. Now that it's fully carbonated it's an easy to drink and goes well with a wide variety of food. Even though the brown was kegged about 2 weeks after the steam beer, I bet we'll finish it first because it's so good and someone always seems to be drinking it.

We are going to give the IPA (I think that is what we are going to call the double pale ale) another couple of days in the kegerator before we try it at which point we'll have 3 beers on tap for the first time. With the schwarzbier planning on being kegged next weekend, that will give us 4 beers. As a result I bought a simple picnic tap (the kind that people think of at a keg-party) and we'll store it in the fermentation fridge. After about 3-4 weeks in there, we'll start to drink that one too and we'll move it to the main kegerator when a tap opens up.