And another 3 gone…

My available keg space just increased dramatically. Last night the American Pale Ale and Black Honey both kicked, and I expect to see an end to the Abbey tripel this weekend. The APA unfortunately never made it into a bottle… there was one pint left last night, and my son accidently knocked it over so I didn’t even get to enjoy it. The Black Honey Ale and Abbey Tripel both got 5-6 bottles filled so I’ll have some to enter in the upcoming competition if need be.

I put the Oak Aged Vanilla Porter on tap last night (some may remember it as “Sex in a glass”) and will get Ichabod’s Revenge Pumpkin Ale on tap sometime this weekend. Donna’s b-day is Monday, so she gets to choose the brews to celebrate. Not sure what the third will be – maybe the Native Rage IPA. I could use it to singe everyone’s taste buds in the competition and sway things in my favor… mwaa haa haa. Or maybe the Phoenix ESB… That would be nice.

This weekend is 10 gallons of Belgian Wit, brewed early Sunday morning. A fellow brewer might sneak out of his house and come watch, if his wife lets him – he’s looking into doing all-grain soon. I’ve also got recipes ready for 5 gallons of “Homegrown Pale Ale”, that will use my Nugget and Cascade hops from this season, 10 gallons of many beers (my peated scottish is next up), and the Ommegang clone whenever I get around to it.

“Zicke-zacke, zicke-zacke, hoy, hoy, hoy,”

This news from Germany! Not exactly what you’d expect from Oktoberfest, I don’t think.

Porn shoot stuns tourists
Sep 26 12:08 PM US/Eastern

BERLIN (Reuters) – Italian vacationers admiring the view from a fairground Ferris wheel at the Munich Oktoberfest got more than they bargained for when a porn shoot suddenly began inside their cabin, authorities said on Friday.

Having settled down to enjoy a leisurely spin on the wheel at the famous beer festival, the group of Italians were quite unprepared for the arrival of two men toting cameras and a woman who started to use a vibrator.

Unable to stop the shoot, the Italians informed local police, who promptly arrested the actress and her crew, a political scientist and a 25-year-old student.

“They said they weren’t doing it for commercial reasons but that they wanted to see how visitors would react,” police said. The three have been charged with public indecency.

Another weekend off

With last weekend being completely devoted to the kids and installing our new Pergo floor, I am taking this weekend a little easy – and not brewing. By the end of the week I’ll have nearly 50 gallons in kegs, so its not like I’m in danger of running out of homebrew sometime soon. Some of the things I wanted to have brewed by the competition aren’t going to happen, but I’ve got plenty of candidates for submission, so I’ll be just fine.

So my new schedule is to brew 10 gallons of Belgian Wit next weekend, followed by 10 gallons of Peated Scottish the following…. although that’s just a rough timetable since Donna’s b-day is coming up on the 3rd – and we’ve got plans to go to the Rehobeth / Lewes outlets for that. The kids also went totally ape for the ocean last time, and I imagine it will be no different this time.

Sometime soon I’ll try to brew my Ommegang clone – but getting enough yeast to reculture and getting it stepped up will be a challenge.

C’est la vie

I will be unable to attend this month’s meeting. My wife has another commitment that supercedes my need to go and wax zymurgic with the other club members and sample the fruits of their labor. So I will have to stay home and sample mine own.

I brewed a pumpkin ale this past Saturday evening – It went fantastic, the wort smelled heavenly (and extremely squashy / pumpkiny) going into the carboy. My wife swooned, which she is not prone to do. I think it’ll be a good one.

This coming weekend is 10 gallons of Belgian Wit, followed by 10 gallons of Peated Scottish 80/-, and sometime very soon – Ommeclone, an Ommegang abbey ale clone using recultured yeast and the clone recipe from the latest issue of Brew Your Own magazine.

Will the fall bring a hiatus to the madness, once my kegs are completely filled? Who knows. There is always lagering….

Terry Daleiden from SANDALS

Terry Daleiden from SANDALS wrote this:

I’m hoping this gets to Scott Bieber , whom I spoke to at the AHA rally at Iron Hill.

Hey Scott,

I just wanted to touch base with you about the December meeting at Fordham Brewery in Dover, that we discussed at the AHA rally in Wilmington. We’ve set it up for Thursday, December 8th – since our club meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month. I have not nailed down an exact start time yet, and one our members is checking with them about bringing in some food for the get-together – I’ll let you know the status on that, as well as everything else as soon as I find out anything.

Doug and I had a great time talking with you and Marty at the Iron Hill event, and hopefully it can open some doors to further joint events down the road. Have you heard any more from Mark at Iron Hill about the checks he was going to send out? I received an email from him shortly after the event and he said he would mail the check out, but I haven’t gotten it yet. I guess I better send him a note too.

That’s all for now, and I’ll keep you posted about the Fordham tour as well as other stuff our our club is planning. By the way, we meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month at Dogfish Head in Rehoboth, starting at 7pm – in case you or any of your members are ever down this way, feel free to stop in. Cheers!

Peace-Out!
Dead Terry (aka Terry Daleiden from SANDALS)