Czech Lager

Weivenfest 2026 brewing starts with this one,

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OG 1.063

Kegging Day

Gravity is super high at 1.080. It is cold, somewhere around 35°. There was ice at the top of the carboy.

Mold was growing on top of the ice and in the liquid part.

The beer seems to have not fermented. The cold beer had a gravity of 1.080 and the OG was measured around 1.060. We didn’t taste the beer, but the smell was enough to make us gag. We’ll have to chalk this one up as a failure and pour it down the drain. Not sure what happened with this one. We’ve never had a mold problem before.

Brown Ale 2026

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Today is another kitchen sink recipe. We’ve gathered a variety of specialty grains and hops over the years, and it’s time for some mid-winter clearing out. Given the range of grains we have, we decided to do something dark. So this one is a brown-ish ale using some NZ hops. It turned out to be pretty dark. We’ll see how this malt and hops combination goes.

Original gravity 1.060

Kegging day

FG 1.014