Brew Day!

It’s about time to have the neighbors over for another round or five to get room in the keg fridge for more batches. I can’t wait to have BBQ’s this summer you bring some food to share, we supply beer! A little backwards but hey I like doing things differently!

Brew days are always great days J can tell not only from the smell of the wort but also from my jumping all over the place. Now I’ve been doing this for years so I really should not get this hyped but there is something about the smell of cooking grains and hops that turns me into an energy ball. Today’s brew is a summer wheat brew, I’d like to run some experiments with this one but as I have never made it before I thought I would be better off just letting this one run it’s course then playing with the next one (hopefully soon) it’s a wheat as I have said and it includes orange blossom honey and Whitbread yeast. The yeast should be fruity and bring out the orange flower in the honey. Now I read somewhere that you can’t taste such flavors in honey but the meads that I tried to make (aside from needing more experimenting and serious help) taught that there were distinct floral small and slight taste to the wild flower wild flower honey and well the buckwheat honey (J’s idea) well definitely tasted like buckwheat, not a great flavor for mead. So is this going to taste like orange or flower? Sigh four weeks until I find out. The next one I’m adding orange or lemon zest to the fermented wort and maybe even juice (not allot) to see how that will turn out 5 gallons I should be able to do all with a control. This weekend Irish Chocolate Stout! I wonder what J will do for a glass…