Paul’s Brewsletter

I’ve been lagering the Red Ale I brewed in October, and I’ll probably unveil that at the New Orleans Concert Band Christmas Concert after party. I just love seeing the looks on people’s faces when I pull out 2 liter bottles (with the original soft drink labels on them, mind you) full of my own beer and start serving my beer from 2 liter bottles. Are they clean? Yes, in fact all the bottles I use for my beer have been sanitized using One-Step Sanitizer. Is this beer competition worthy? Probably not, but I’m brewing beer to make beer I like and beer that my friends like.

I am going to start primary fermentation on my Christmas Beer this weekend. Primary Fermentation just means that I’m mixing the beer extract with water, yeast and the corn sugar to put in the barrel for several days. Once this is done, I will bottle the beer for another week or two until it is carbonated and ready to rock. This beer is a Czech style pilsner. Did you know that the Czechs invented the pilsner style of beer? In fact, the name pilsner comes from a town in the Czech republic called Pilsen. So it’s not just a clever name

Since this is my holiday beer, I’m calling it “Czech the Halls”. Get it?

This probably won’t be the highest alcohol content beer I’ve done, but it’s not always about the alcohol. Besides, you can drink more of them to get the desired effect

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