 |
| THE WATER |
The delima arose. I had previously obligated myself to plan and preform a camping trip for a friend's birthday. Then FDN was contacted to provide beer sampling for the next art walk, which was only 3 weeks away!
What to do? What to do?
Bail on camping and brew?
OR
Bail on the Art Walk event and camp the night away?
BOTH! TOGETHER! No impossible!
Not to hasty. It can be done. there may be significantly less storage space for camping gear, and yes I will probably forget something, but possible? Yes.
The brew went great! We found a nice flat spot on a sand bar right next to a spring (seen above) where the water for the beer came from.
 |
| THE BOIL |
We used an all grain bill of:
10lbs - Pale Malt (2-Row)
1lb - Light Crystal Malt
1/2lb - Wheat Malt
And pellet hops for the brew:
2oz Columbus 13.75%
1.75oz @ 25min.
0.25oz @ 5min.
Dry hops for the 2nd fermentation:
4oz Brewer's Gold 10.7%
Yeast provided by Mad River Brewing:
1/4qrt. Pale Ale yeast
The brew took about 4.5 hours with the last 20min or so cooling the boiling wort down to pitch-able temperature as to not kill the yeast before they have time to taste the sweet nectar of this Delicious-ness. The river temperature was right about 48 degrees F (Burrrrrrrr for swimming, good for cooling beer down).
Time breakdown
0.50hrs - prep.
1.25hrs - mash
1.00hrs - sparge
1.25hrs - boil
0.25hrs - cooling
0.25hrs - clean up
 |
| CAMP and BREW |
Come and sample this locally brewed beer and donate to this locally fermented club at:
Jefferson State Books 299 I Street Crescent City CA 95531
From: 4pm To: 8pm
On: June 29th, 2012
La Levadura
NIce!!! I'll be up there next weekend. Looking forward to a sample
ReplyDeleteYou guys brewed while camping?! That's awesome, I I just brewed 25 gallons on Monday after work , half pale ale and half honey cream ale. Do you guys ever brew collectively.
ReplyDelete