We're still over 6 months away from the next edition of Yaktoberfest, but we vowed to start preparing early this year. Although we organizers haven't gotten too much done yet in terms of event planning, I have been busy trying to brew as many new beers as possible in hopes of finding one or more recipes to brew for the festival. In the first blog update on Yaktoberfest 2012, we were trying out AHS's double chocolate stout recipe. That one's in the bottle. It needed a few more weeks of rest before it became a really good drink, but patience did pay off, and this one's a pretty good candidate for the fest. I may have to tinker with the recipe just a bit to boost the alcohol and body each just a touch.
Just yesterday, I bottled experiment number two, a brown ale that also has promise. I tasted it flat, and while I knew it would be light on hops, it may be a bit too low. Guess we'll wait a couple of weeks and see.
Taking an investigatory sniff of the brown ale during bottling
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