Recipes

Let's start posting recipes on here... I will post the Ruination clone I just did when I get home, and as we go I'll put all up that I've done. You guys should do the same. Besides being able to share recipes that way, we'll have an archive of them as well as reactions to them.

NOW POST!

Ok Joe did a cool fact of the day so I can't be outdone:

Fact: Joe Strauss used to give us endless shit for drinking. Look at him now!

We suck at this.

Someone needed to post but I don't feel like writing, so i'll keep this short. I'm mere weeks away from convincing bob and allan to split the cost of an all-grain brewing rig with me. Except I need a weekend or so in which to actually do it. More to follow.

Beer fact: On Led Zeppelin 4, the symbol chosen by John Bonham was a near replica of the logo for Ballantine Beer. *The More You Know*

Where my bitches is at?

So... whats goin on here? Down in SD its been slow but we just did an Oatmeal stout that should be delicious. I know you guys up there have been brewing up a storm, lets see recipes or something. Pictures? I don't care, post anything. I need something else to do at work!

Dresden Ale

The southern half of CCB has been busy, and we're subsequently broke. We do have a stand up refrigerator and three corny kegs ready to go now, and we got to pop the system's cherry with the Dresden Ale.

So titled for the late Kurt Vonnegut, the Dresden Ale is a double red that earns its name due to its fiery assault on your palate, and sobriety. We calculated it out to 11.8%, by far our highest content to date (and it makes the 8% IPA taste like Coors light). We also force carbonated this one, due to our extreme impatience at an installed kegerator with nothing to drink. We pumped the system to 30psi and shook the crap out of the keg, by the next day it was carbonated. We will probably continue to force carbonate, but with a slower less violent method.

Kegging beer is like learning to walk, it makes much more possible (including CCB's first lager, suck it nor cal!), and takes other worries away (like saving/cleaning/storing bottles in mass quantities). In the end this refrigerator should house three tapped beers and three fermenting lagers. I should be unemployed by then...

Long live CCB!

Mother FUCKING Cradle of Civilization!!

Last week was crazy we brewed 3 beers. The three beers were an Orange Porter (this beer that will change the world, more on this later)- No Name Yet, American Ale - called The Pilgrim Ale (also more on this later, THE ANTICIPATION it burns) and also a Hefweizen- called The Founders Brew (made for the founders of the company Brian and I work for)

ANYWAY, the Orange Porter was an idea I had when talking to my buddy Chris about making a San Francisco Giants themed beer. I told him I wanted something Black and Orange, then it struck me an Orange Porter. We explained this to the non-Griz (aka the guy that won't yell at you or give you snarky comments) of the Brewcraft, he explained in the years he has been working there no costumer has ever spoke of this recipe, literally his jaw was on the floor. This makes me excited because if it actually works we could be brewing something that will be a cornerstone of the CCB.

Next was the American Ale we named The Pilgrim Ale in honor of the late Kurt Vonnegut. To celebrate his life we made an all American beer. Every ingredient was grow/made in the USA. We named it The Pilgrim Ale for two reasons, Billy Pilgrim of Slaughterhouse Five and Pilgrims founded what has become America. As Joe would say THAT'S A DOUBLE WHAMMY. Don't worry though France (Joe) was not allowed to touch any of the ingredients, this of course was for fear of contamination, mainly Francium. I digress we are hoping for a smooth taste but a little bite at the end, just like works by Vonnegut. On a side note Vonnegut was a thought provoking and truthful voice that will be sorely missed, I can only hope my children will pick up Slaughterhouse Five or Cat's Cradle and be inspired to read.

Here is a random thought by Charlie Bamforth, Professor of Brewing Science at UC Davis. This man is a genius!

"Beer is the basis of modern static civ­ilization," began Bamforth, Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Brewing Science at the University of California, Davis. "Because before beer was discovered, people used to wander around and follow goats from place to place. And then they realized that this grain [barley] could be grown and sprouted and made into a bread and crumbled and converted into a liquid which gave a nice, warm, cozy feeling. So gone were the days that they followed goats around. They stayed put while the grain grew and while the beer was brewed. And they made villages out of their tents. And those villages became towns, and those towns became cities. And so here we are in New York, thanks to beer." Another syllogism ended his address: "He who drinks beer sleeps well. He who sleeps well cannot sin. He who does not sin goes to heaven. The logic is impeccable."

Link to full article-
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=E699E9C7-E7F2-99DF-38A7329520CF67D6&colID=15

mmmmmmmmmm beer.

I figured there should be a picture of the kegerator somewhere on here.







yeah...

CCB Beer Flight.

Honeyed Wheat, CA Pale, Amber, IPA, Spiced Scottish, Irish Stout.

(Harvest, unnamed, Red Mosquito, Misty Mountain Hops, Drury Lane, Number 9)

forward motion.