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The 2nd Annual Steel City Big Pour - A Smashing Success!
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Sunday, 31 August 2008
Well, fellow home brewers, your old pal Frosty and his good friend Doug made it to the first session of the 2nd Annual Steel City Big Pour yesterday (9/13).  This was a fabulous experience - best summed up by the events own promo material:

"In one year, the Steel City Big Pour has established itself as the preeminent craft beer festival in the region.  Come and experience Craft Brewing like nowhere else in Pittsburgh. No one attending will ever be the same!"

Doug and I put a large dent in the diverse sample offerings provided by twenty nine craft brewers - mostly from Pennsylvania, Ohio, or West Virginia. There was one company (Oskar Blues Brewery) who made the trek in from Lyons, Colorado.  I had several IPAs, a couple of different (all delicious) Oktoberfests, a Pumkin' Ale, a fabulous Porter and a Double IPA.

The music provided by the Hoodoo Drugstore was right on target with a notable rendition of Jambalaya.

If I were a better reporter I'd have taken better notes (or at least some notes). But I only have two hands and I was there to sample! I made mental notes on several of the beers/brewers I tested but those notes faded into the beer induced euphoria. One thing I do remember is that I sampled no beer unworthy of the event. At the end of it all, We (Doug and I) agreed that the top beer we tasted was the Hoppin' Frog Double IPA. If you can find some definitely give it a shot.







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Oatmeal Stout
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Thursday, 23 October 2008
Category Stout
Recipe Type Partial Mash
Fermentables
5 lbs 2--row pale malt
1.5 lbs steel cut oats
.5 lbs malted wheat
1.5 lbs 80 L. crystal malt
1 lbs black patent malt
1 lbs chocolate malt
1 lbs roasted barley
.5 lbs Cara-pils malt
3 lbs dark Australian DME

Hops
1 oz Chinnok pellets (13.6% alpha) (boil 60 minutes)
.5 oz Perle pellets (8% alpha) (boil 35 minutes)
.25 oz Hallertauer pellets (3% alpha) (boil 35 minutes)
.25 oz Tettnanger pellets (3.4% alpha) (boil 35 minutes)
.75 oz Hallertauer (steep for aroma)
.75 oz Tettnanger (steep for aroma)

Other
.5 lbs lactose
1 tsp Irish moss

Yeast Wyeast Irish ale yeast

Procedure: Single-step infusion mash, partial mash recipe. Strike Temperature 170 into 12 liters of treated water, alla burton on trent. Mashed for 45 minutes, 170 F. proteolytic step for 10 minutes. Sparge while adding runoff to brew kettle to get boiling. Sparge SG ran from 1.09 down to about 1.025.
Add 3 lbs DME (Dark Australian) to bring wort to 1.06 SG. Add 8 oz. of lactose and a tsp. of dry moss before killing the fire.  




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Saturday, 26 April 2008
Fellow Home Brewers,

Please forgive this unusual change of posting style. I have recently come into possession of an amazing book called "THE LONDON & COUNTRY BREWER ~ 1736". The book was authored "By a Person formerly concerned in a Common Brewhouse at _London_, but for twenty Years past has resided in the Country". Although we do not know his name it is obvious that he knows his stuff. Though I have found the text to be primarily entertaining, it is refreshing to be exposed to the thoughts of a person who was (like us) obviously quite passionate on this particular topic.
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So here''s the deal. I will email this great book to you, one chapter at a time for the next 21 weeks, in exchange for you signing up for the True Home Brew mailing list. Rest assured that your privacy is safe with us. Your name and email address will not be shared, sold, or rented to anyone. THB will use your information to send you the chapters of "THE LONDON & COUNTRY BREWER ~ 1736" and occasional (never more than once a month) offers of interest to home brewers.

To further (I hope) whet your whistle I have listed the chapter titles that you will be receiving over the next 21 weeks as well as the preface to the work. This is a great deal for both of us, so please, sign up (using the small form on the left of this web page) today! Also remember to add the email address This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to your email spam filter''s "Allowed" list.

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