Monthly Archives: December 2016

Black gold is in the keg

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The stout finished up (totally unrelated to our planned holiday travels) today and was jammed into a keg. Instead of force carbing it this time around I opted to prime the keg. I’ve done a few of each now and I think I like the results of the latter method.

The final concoction has two-row, chocolate, Munich, Crystal 60L, black, and oats…. and HONEY! Think of it like a black liquid honey oatmeal raisin cookie without the raisins. Or maybe like Honey Nut Cheerios without the nuts and milk. Here’s the the first pour in the new year!

Double, double.

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Diplopia. Look it up kids. While you’re at it look up Foreigner.

This stout will be my first crack at secondary fermentation. Since no bad experiment holds all variables constant, I made sure to dry hop the secondary as well. What the heck right?

I smashed my test tube by accident (not beer related actually) so who knows what the alcohol actually will be. If all goes according to plan this stout should be too dark and too much alcohol to be a stout but that’s the point. Whirly Bird was hoping to drop off something that would warm the soul on a cold winter day.