The Voters have spoken..It's Yellow Snow Pale Ale

Well the Unamed Pale Ale has a new name, the voters have cast their ballots, it's now known as Yellow Snow Pale Ale. It was a close vote, Yellow Snow beat Kingston Pale Ale by 2 votes, guess with all the snow we had this winter everyone figured Yellow Snow was more appropriate.

I was personally hoping for Kingston, this we we can name an beer after Matoy and Omni's son, but I'll send a few bottles with the Kingston Pale Ale label down to Virginia for them to sample.



Poll Results
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Yellow Snow Pale ale (12)
Kingston Pale Ale (10)
Itchy Paws Pale Ale (9)
Sneaky Tortoise Ale (8)
Electric Hippo Ale (5)



Had a lot of fun creating the labels, the Yellow Snow label has to be my best one yet, funny and too the point.


Yellow Snow Pale Ale Label



















Kingston Pale Ale Label


















The Beer..And yeah, it taste THAT good!

Big Mamma's Hungry Hefe

Decided to brew my first Hefeweizen, its' a 5 gal kit I ordered from Rebel Brewer. Figuring I was going to be working from home on Friday anyway with the upgrade in work, James had no school with the snowstorm. Why not brew it late Thursday night??

I hope this is the last time I decide to brew at midnight, no matter what night of the week, with sanitizing and cleaning, it's now a 3-3.5 job, started at 11:30 and finally finished up at 3 AM.

Pale straw color, classically cloudy, some clove and banana esters
and a tight creamy head. This is my first attempt at a Hefeweizen, and really looking forward to tasting this one, gonna be a great summer brew.


OG 1.051
IBU 15
SRM (color) 3
Alc. % 4.9

Cracked this open tonight and it came out REALLY good, will definitely be brewing this again, came out good to style, Pale straw to very dark gold in color. Mouthfeel is right there, medium-light to medium body, came out really good.

See for yourself.

Ok, I had more than one.

To Be Named - American Pale Ale

The brewers at Pembroke Farms Brewing Co are getting ready to brew another batch of suds, this time we'll be cooking up an American Pale Ale, the only problem is we have yet to come up with a name for it. So, we're going to let you vote for the name, the poll closes February 28, which is the day I will be cracking the first one open. Now you don't want me drinking an unamed Pale Ale do ya, let's get voting then.

This will be a 5 gallong batch, we'll be using Cascade hops at the 15 min mark and at flameout.

O.G 1.054
IBU 33
SRM (color ) 8
AlC 5.%

Yuengling Clone

Alright, this was supposed to be my feeble attempt at a Yuengling Clone, came out decent but it's no Yuengling Clone. First of all I don't have the ability to lager it, so I was forced to use Ale yeast.

On the other hand it tastes pretty good so i can't complain all that much, hey I made beer right!

New Logo

With the help of Nino Barte, the site had a brand new logo, now we look professional n stuff, guess we have to start making better beer now lol..Below are a few other logos Nino created for the brewery which we'll be using on our labels.

Thanks Nino, you the BEST!

Fallen Wheat 10.16.09

Picked up a can of Munton's Wheat, 3.3 lbs prehopped extract along with a 1 lb bag of Munton's DME, that'll add alot more body to the beer.Had planned on doing a 5 gallon batch with this, then adding 4 oz of Peach exract before adding to the bottling bucket but didnt' have time to pick up the Ale Pale. So for now I split the ingredients, it'll be a 2.13 gallon batch.

I got the water to a nice boil, added 1/2 lb of DME (Dry Malt Exract) , stirred it in real quick that stuff gets hard quick, then poured in half the can of the Wheat extract, stirred that in, poured into the fermenter and pitched the yeast, now all I can do is sit back and let the yeasties do their thing.

I put the remaining Wheat extract into a zip lock bag and into a plastic container that I stuffed in the freezer for now. The DME will stay at room temp as long as it's in a ziplock bag, I'll pick up a Wheat yeast and some Peach extract and I'll make the next batch a Peach Wheat.

Edit 12.01.09: Well here's the finished product, pours well, nice head retention. Decent body, only regret was did not use German yeast , but that i'll do that when I brew up the Hefeweizen, came out pretty good.

Oktoberfest

This was my first Oktoberfest and it came out great, very happy with it, good malt character and dense creamy head of this delicious seasonal brew will surely win anyone over.










Oktoberfest Label