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Beer Night

Tonight was beer night. We brewed another batch of our American-Style Pale Ale ("Hitched" from our wedding), bottled a gallon so we could use Stuarts labels again, and put the rest in our keg. Once finished with that beer, we move on to the next one that was waiting in the primary fermentor. We siphoned the second one, "Bold Series California Style Imperial Pale" which I think will be VERY hoppy, into our secondary fermentor. That will rest a week or so until we get another keg to store it in.

We've also decided that we're going to need a few more kegs for backup. We'll have two in the fridge, but since they take about 5 weeks to age, we figure it would be best to have two as backup. Maybe that will be too much, who knows. But my guess is we'll go through beer a tad faster as it will be so easy to access.

We're also looking at a mid to late October kegger. The beer will need time to age, and I have a lot of work to go on the bar. Hopefully this weekend on Sunday I'll have some time to work on it. Saturday is Conner's birthday and the Husker football game. We're playing paintball, adults vs. 7th graders. Should be fun. :)

One last thing I just remembered, I went to home depot tonight and bought some nuts and bolts. I think someone tried to "fix" the door handle at one point, and instead screwed it all up. There are square holes where there should be round holes. Anyway, I made my own square nuts out of some aluminum I had lying around, and put the door pull on. It fits perfect. If anything, it's a bit too snug but that's far better then too loose. Hopefully it will loosen up a bit over time. Anyway, door handle is on and functioning better then it has in years.

By Craig Kohtz on September 14, 2009 - beer, fridge, keg

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