Mellody Brewing

I'll Never Do It Again...

The Black Keys play Penns Landing tonight.  Thinking of headed down there to see the show.  Enjoy this beautiful summer day, and don't forget if you want to help me finalize recipes, send me your address for the tasting club.

Mama Rock Me!

You ready to be rocked?  I've been busy in the silence here, and if you want to join my home brew tasting club, email me your address to sean underscore (_) mellody at hot mail dot you know what. If you can't figure that out, well, you are in trouble.

More details on the tasting club to come.

We're never waking up, if we never let go

It's hotter then hades outside and this calls for sitting outside and enjoying music and hopefully have a few cold beers.  I'll be spending the weekend at the XPN Music Festival, on and off through out the weekend. Just one of the benefits of being a member of 88.5 XPN was getting two three-day passes to the festival.  

The band above, Free Energy, is from Philadelphia, see the shots in the video...and are a fun band to listen to.  Bubble gum, pop rocky, upbeat and all around head bopping music.  Should be fun to see them live.  Good lyrics to this song too...

Happy Friday all! 

Boom, boom, boom

Let me hear you say, "way-o, WAY-O!"

Looks like my formulation for fresh yeast bottle conditioning is working. I did have one casulty. All the other bottles seem good, my guess Is the bottle just had some structural issues. I put one bottle in the fridge to check the status, I'll let you know how we are doing soon.

Bottling Session Ale

I can't describe how excited I am about this beer. After bottling I poured some to check final gravity and color. It's all where I want it to be, and more. The color is perfect, like a golden triple but when tasted it's fruity and light with no strong alcohol taste. This should finish a bit drier, with lots of carbonation after bottle conditioning. The abbey yeast used in both primary and bottle fermentation ahould add good aroma and complexity to a simple beer.

I'm refermenting this in the bottle with fresh yeast, let's hope none of the bottles explode and I did my calculations right. I'm scared to leave the bottles for the holiday weekend. I placed them all in a sealed Tupperware storage container just in case. Keep your fingers crossed.