Yesterday I went to my local beer supply store in Riverside to pick up ingredients for the next four batches of beer and also a couple of extra items. Among those items was a oak keg for the secondary fermentation of my two stouts -- Maine's Moose Musk (an sweet apple milk stout) and my newest addition a oatmeal stout (not name as of yet). Additionally, I picked up a book on yeast culturing to self teach myself how to grow my own yeast and keep the strains still going.
Also yesterday I purchased five species of hops from Organic Garden Seeds (or egardenseed.com) to test in Maine to see if it is possible to grow our own hops for some of the beers. Have to wait until next spring to plant but looking forward to the empirical data glean.
The past week I started working on my Sour Lemon Drop by working on the base recipe. The original recipe which by accident produced both a slight tartness and lemon flavors I wanted to make more prominent ... thus the new batch I added organic lemon grass, and the upcoming batch afterwards will include the bacteria along with the yeast to "sour" it even more. Results still pending.
Added recipes include the oatmeal stout, the sour lemon, and now a IPA which will be named Rocky Point IPA ... such a simple name for which I hope to be a complex double IPA.
This is the initial site for the organic microbrewery I am setting up. It will go through all of the processes from successes to failures that go along with setting up a brewery first at home then to small scale production.
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