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September 27, 2009

Harvest Ales

Beer is beautiful!  I love brewing me some beer, and the fall season is the perfect time to experiment and produce some unique beers.  It is the time of year when the hops are ready to be harvested and pumpkins start to pop up at your local super market.  The temperature starts to cool but the sun still shines making every fall day perfect brewing weather.

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One of my favorite beers of the fall/winter season is a pumpkin ale.  I’ve been waiting all summer to brew my own.  Of course it couldn’t just be a simple brown ale, this one had to be my own take on the delicious liquid.  Being very experimental I decided to brew a spicy pumpkin stout.  A work in progress it is already in the secondary fermentor and will be bottled on Halloween for good measure. 

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So are there any more beers in the works, you ask?  Yes there are, and equally exotic.  For Labor Day weekend I was up in Oregon.  On Sunday I traveled to the city of Eugene and met up with my cousin Kyle.  He is an avid cider and wine maker but has never brewed beer before.  Being that he introduced me to the process of fermenting it was the perfect time to show him how to brew beer.   The fermenting processes of creating wine and cider is similar to beer.

For this session we decided to create a Harvest IPA.  That means we used hops right off the vines in Kyle’s backyard.   This is a seasonal beer that yields a unique flavor only possible once a year.  In order to fully give the beer it’s one of a kind flavor, a good mount of hops where left to dry in the sun while primary fermentation was taking place.  These would be applied in the secondary fermentor.  This process in known as Dry Hopping.  The beer will be ready by Thanksgiving and I am waiting with anticipation to taste the result.  The best part of the brewing process was catching up with my cousins and creating a truly unique beer.

Cheers!