OK… I forgot to take pictures. Sue me.* So here is a doctored picture of Sgt. Stout and myself (we love our Brigadier Bock, but he was absent from yesterdays brewing**) and uh… so here’s us. To set the mood.

So it was (or we hope it will turn out to have been) an interesting brew session…

The Sergeant and I brewed two batches of beer. Both are wheats. That’s about where the similarities stop. One will be an easy drankin, American style wheat. All malt, one stage hopping, some spices in the secondary fermenter and bam… that’s the beer. T’other? A German Weizen. Malted barley and unmalted wheat grains… POUNDS of dry malt extract. Sugars. 3 stages of hopping and a bit of sweet orange peel in the cooling wort.

Different yeast strains too. So we shall see, beervolk, if both beers come out very well, excellently or just quite well (because they will, dammit). The boils went on at the same time, the cool down took the same amount of time, we pitched the yeast simultaneously… so if one of these beers is more suited to the temperature and conditions they were brewed under, well that will be interesting. They’ll sit in both fermenters for the same amount of time so if the aging process yields different qualities or unique characteristics, THAT will be interesting.

But here’s what I predict: two damn good beers. Stand by for that. Cap’n OUT!

* do not sue me… I have three dollars left to my name and one of them is promised to a dowager aunt in the country.

** I literally just remembered that a few people wanted to be included in the next brew session and man, I blew it. You’ll be invited next to fo sho.