As Grant shows, above, there's always time to take your eye off your HLT and pour a cold one.
Grant's mashing BIAB Honey Brown lager. Greg went with Three Hearted Ale, also BIAB. Jed, a RyePA, all grain batch sparge and I did a kind of a pliny thing, batch sparge.
I demonstrated, conclusively (again!), no matter what you do, 9 ounces of hops in the boil does not go well with a plate chiller. Hopblocker, whirlpool, whatever....9 ounces of pellets and a plate chiller are not going to get along.
We sampled the Dragon Milk (all three styles), Summer Ale, Bitter Bastards, a Choco-Porter, a breakfast stout, a Golden Nugget, a Pumpkin Ale, 3 different Ciders, a Strawberry wine and a Maple Nut Brown.
The carnivores attending had pulled pork, they seemed to like it and that's probably enough said about that.
Good times.
It was an excellent Brew Day all around. One of my favorite times of the year. Our honey brown is bubbling like crazy!
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