Wednesday, October 7, 2009

HOORAH For New Yeast

Vindication is glorious.

After several batches of mediocre mouthfeel and an odd "wateriness" as our friends described it in our brews, we switched yeasts and it made one hell of a difference.

We spent yesterday afternoon cleaning a relatively insane amount of carboys and transferring from second fermentation to kegs all in the name of good beer. Currently, 3 beers are kegged are waiting for the CO2 to carbonate thoroughly to be chilled and served.

They are (cue drumroll....)

Rabbits Foot Red (V1) - 6 different malts, 3 different hop varieties with multiple boil times, and the new yeast. It's very red, and it's potentially very awesome coming in with an ABV of around
5.6%

Break a Leg Brown (V4) - A bit of a hybrid brown/amber ale that Brad has been working on since our first brew messing with the malt and hops bill. The new yeast appears to have made all the difference and brought out the coffee tones. ABV around 5.4%

Pragmatic Porter (V2) - New malt bill, and potentially a little lacking on hops, and sadly, definitively our last beer with the old yeast strain. We had these all side by side, and this one had that same wateriness we've experienced, but the taste is getting there...

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