Adventures in Homebrewing - Preacher’s Pale Ale

Yesterday before our church gathered together at 5pm, I spent the day bottling and brewing. I worked saturday night until about 1am and and didn’t end up getting home until around 2am. So yesterday morning I got up early, downed two red bulls and bottled 5 gallons of Dark Sleep Stout. Suffice it to say that the brewmaster was ready to pass out from shear exhaustion by 3pm.

After I had cleaned and soaked all of my equipment. I started making a batch of what I’m going to call the Preacher’s Pale Ale. It is the first recipe that I’ve come up with myself, so I’m going to keep my fingers crossed while it’s fermenting in the closet. [I just opened the closet door and the fermentation lock is bubbling away...which is a good thing.]

I’m gonna give the Dark Sleep Stout about two or three weeks in the bottle before I dig in, but if anyone who lives in the ATL wants to try it, then shoot me an email in a few weeks…

Adventures in Homebrewing - Dark Sleep Stout

I’m going to whip out a batch of Homebrew later today. It’s a recipe that I got from one of Papazian’s books a few days ago.

Dark Sleep Stout.

Yum.

…much heavier, richer and more bittersweet than a Guinness style of dry stout. It is akin to putting a fancy liqueur in your expresso…[It] is extremely rich and creamy-a sipping stout that does extremely well with age.