Since I brewed on Sunday the beers have been bubbling away on overdrive. It is really fun to walk into the laundry room and listen to the rapid ticking and gurgling of the airlocks. They seem to be talking to each other, comparing notes on how rapidly the ferment is going or what odors are escaping.

Suppose they are extolling the virtues of pumkin spices in a beer verses apple, which one would win? I have been putting off brewing those two beers because of their light nature and likely sweet finish. I’m hoping they will be dry enough for me, but we will see.

To counter the fruit fall beers I picked up an imperial pale kit. The exact title escapes me at the moment, but inside the box is two cans of LME and two or three pounds of DME. With three ounces of hops, one with 14%AA for bittering. I figure with the Cascades in the back yard I will have a minor hop monster! My plan is to follow the kit’s hopping schedule and supplement with the homegrown hops along the way. A crossbreed 90 minute IPA perhaps.

That is on schedule for this weekend, and I’ll be re-using the American Ale yeast from the pumpkin beer, so I am slightly restricted by how long primary lasts on that one.

Cheers!
Tony