Second Floor Brewing

If you are looking for what has happened at SFB between last Wednesday and today well then look no further.  This is the post that will inform you.

We brewed our brand new Devil’s Tail Ale. That’s right, the ale so evil that even though we brewed it under (the day before) a full moon it refused to conform to our narrow expectations.  It would not end up at 1.o666 OG and I expect it will not finish at 6.66% alcohol, 6.66 SRM, nor will it have 66.6 IBUs.  You can’t contain the devil.  We should have known.  Every one should know.

I also updated the “Beers” pages with the last two beers we have brewed.  I don’t have much information but what I do have now is more to talk about.

Upcoming this weekend: SFB has its public debut at a block party on my street.  A few pictures should follow if all goes well.  The beer I’m serving is a red I’ve had in my kitchen for a few weeks that I thought was going to be trash but then turned into beer after I re-pitched yeast and then added blueberries to.  I’m going to keg it and hope it turns out better than the last beer we tried to keg.

The omens are all around.  Can’t you see them?

A brew day is approaching.  It will, without a doubt, be the most heinous SFB brew day of all time.  On that day we will be brewing our new Devil’s Tail Ale.  A beer (in design at least) so evil that we must only mention it once in this article and that it must always be bolded.

I’ve discussed how the number of the beast will be worked into multiple parts of the recipe in a previous TMQ.  But, to make the beer as evil as possible it will contain one of the most pungent (trust me!) ingredients I have ever used: jaggery.  I bought two of the fez-shaped blocks (pictured) at a local Indian grocery for a few dollars.  If it turns out odious enough, we are going to enter this devil beer in the Pratt Street Ale House’s homebrew contest.

In other, non-evil, news, I replaced our faux-BP logo that came with the WordPress theme which used to be in the upper-left corner of the site with a little crescent moon icon.  I tried to get it to match the font.  It’s pretty OK.

The moon goes with a SFB logo I created last week and that will be tomorrow’s Wordless Wednesday unless I get something better between now and then.  It’s just step one of my evil (!) plan that also involves printing many shirts with the afore mentioned logo on them and distributing them to various thrift stores under the guise of donations.  Soon all the kids will be talking about this “Second Floor Brewing.”  Guerrilla marketing at its finest, courtesy of SFB!

Quick one tonight…

We won an Honorable Mention in the Heavy Seas Letter of Marque Homebrew contest!  Check it out.

Next up, the Oliver Ales Homebrew Contest.  I randomly met last year’s winner at Max’s and he gave me the secrets to winning some encouraging words.  I have an idea for a concept beer that I want to enter.  It is The Devil’s Tail Ale: 6.66% ABV, 6.66 SRM, 1.066 OG, 66.6 IBU, and some devilish secret ingredients.  Whatta think?

Munich Helles is still in the fridge, still doing some fermentation, not sure how its going to turn out.

The Fruli clone, as you may know, does not taste like Fruli but it is growing on me with each bottle I drink.  It has a really high level of carbonation which, while unexpected, is not unpleasant.

Hopefully I’ll have some reviews up later this week.