Grandpa's Batch!

Rich being Rich!

Posing for our second batch of Cooper's!

Father and Son brewing beer together, too bad Dad doesn't drink!

We will either build or buy a wort chiller before our first all grain batch.

Rich pitching the variable - Nottingham Yeast!

I had some family in town and we were sitting around bored and finally decided why not brew tonight? We looked around and found our All Grain Ingredients (why did I capitalize that?) but we didn't have the pot for it (the pot is scheduled to be delivered on the 2nd of January). So we had another Cooper's Draught Beer can. We added roughly 2.5 lbs of dextrose and instead of using the Cooper's yeast we added Nottingham's Ale Yeast. We sat around arguing over what variable to change over the last batch and finally decided on yeast. So basically we added a little more sugar (about .5 lbs roughly) and used a different yeast (nottinghams) than our Dishwater Draught. We pitched at 76-78 degrees Fahrenheit. It is sitting in the garage right now at 55 degrees Fahrenheit.


So tonight's batch is called Grandpa's Batch - only reason because he finalized some decisions between me and Steve. Basically, he said arbitrarily "it's ready," and he pitched the yeast. He also helped stir and gave some great grandfatherly advice about life in general. So here are the pics!