This weekend, with my car getting fixed and WCC having a day off on Monday, I was finally able to go home to Andover, MA and get my kegerator and C02 stuff, along with my kegs. This means that I finally get to drink up my first Princeton batch of beer, the Maris Otter/Willamette SMaSH bitter that I brewed way back in late August/early September. It tastes great, and I originally wanted to naturally carbonate it with some malt extract for some semblance of "real ale" authenticity, but I really want to start drinking this guy now, so I'm probably going to force carbonate it. Depending on how I like the flavor, I may throw in a bag of whole keg hops for a little English hop freshness (gotta stick with Willamette to keep this beer
Single
Malt
and
Single
Hop!). I can't wait to finally be drinking this stuff, though. I'll probably keg it tomorrow and that will put it ready to drink this weekend!
Since I finally have my lovely car back, I'll be brewing at a much higher rate again. I'm really liking the idea of an amber-pumpkin-spice-autumnal-Franco-Belgian-saison-thing...so that's probably what I'll go for next. It'll be a great cold weather/Thanksgiving/etc beer! Stay tuned!
Congrats on the kegerator, they are an amazing thing to have. Made mine about 6 months ago and use it constantly. Need to put a few more homebrews in mine though.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I can't wait to get the homebrew flowing off the faucet again! There's nothing quite like it.
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