Evidence that Brass Hat Brewing is progressing through its second year with a successful transition to all grain brewing from Brewmaster Ohoove's own handcrafted recipes. Assorted IPA's and brown ales with satisfying results. The brewmaster's state-of-the-art facility shown here with assistant Durge (also known as "Igor" on brew days). We mash, we sparge, we drink, we enjoy. I'll update more specifics on the future brews and hope others will do the same here on Conicalogical.
I'd like to kick things off with a comment about the most recent addition to the Brass Hat Brewing catalogue, our "Smokey The Beer", a smoked amber ale based on a Northern Brewers extract kit. Out of all the beers we've made to date, this is the first to come up limp. The rest have been nicely carbonated and produced bountiful heads and lacing, but this one is very tame to say the least. It tastes so good that I still enjoy it a lot, but I'm wondering what went wrong here considering we think we followed the same procedure for every beer. Having tried a few, Ron & I don't think the caps were poorly applied on all of them. Any ideas on why this would happen? Suggestions? Craig