Oh, it's on!

It's brewfest week!

I'm rolling with a cask conditioned Carlton Bank's Dance Time Extravaganza Bel Air Mild.

I am actually pouring the second incarnation of my mild; brewed this one during the super bowl and racked it to my pin 4 whole days later. It will have just over 3 weeks in the cask by the time it is tapped.

The first run of this batch turned out pretty nice - we'll have to see how version 2 turns out though... I had an issue on brew-day. Yep, I finally ran out of propane - in both tanks. I wound up with just a 35 minute boil.

The only real impact I expect as a result is to the bitterness, and since I was aiming towards the upper end of the range (per style guidelines), I wound up getting somewhat close to the lower end of the range anyway. Luckily my hop schedule included a 30 minute addition, so I had that going for me.

Just for kicks, I wound up dry hopping with some leftover Willamette and Challenger that I had laying around... that should help too. I guess we'll see, I'm not all that worried about it.


The SOGO crew seems to be putting some effort into making this more of an actual brewfest type thing, and less of a house party. There's gonna be tables set up, some sort of official judging, crowd voting, printed literature... and an even a trophy. Those guys do not mess around, especially Ryan, he made some super sweet flyers for each of the beers. Check 'em out: