Irondale Brewing

Bottle carbonation experiment results!

Partial mash + 30 minute boil = a fast brew day.

After adding bourbon-soaked oak cubes to a batch of Porter and patiently waiting a couple of weeks for it to condition in the keg, it was finally time to see how this beer was coming along.

I'm a bit late getting started on this one so it'll actually be more of a New Year's Ale by the time it's ready, but this is a brew day I've been looking forward to for a while.

The condensation on the range hood in the brewing space is the one major issue with the space that I'd like to resolve, but before replacing the range hood with a condensation hood, I wanted to do a test batch in the kitchen in the house to see if the behavior was similar.

It's finally time to try my batch of this year's Learn to Homebrew Day recipe.

How do different techniques impact bottle carbonation?

I added the bourbon-soaked oak chips to the Porter I have going yesterday and not too long after it kicked off a bit of additional fermentation activity!

Tasting SoCo Homebrew's Brown Ale kit after about a week in the keg.

I was a day late brewing for the American Homebrewers Association Learn to Homebrew Day this year, but better late than never!