I am new at this blog business but I thought I would try it and share some of our/my experience at our latest ale attempt. Let me start by giving a little history of how this all came about.
About a month ago, 3 of my co-workers started talking about making some beer. I had a little experience in the past with a couple of successful ales so we decided to talk about a recipe. I suggested a very nice brown ale I had made a while back that I named Blackie's Brown Ale. It is interesting how that ale got its name so I proceeded to explain to my pals the story.
Our family once had a cat which my daughter named Blackie. On day, while my wife was taking our other cat, Raoul, to the clinic for a check-up and some shots, she saw this straggly little kitten hovering around the clinic half dead. It looked like it had been abandoned there by someone and was meowing and meowing. Well, my wife noticed how straggly and weak it was and decided she needed to be saved. My wife took the cat to the clinic and had the doctor check it out and administer the proper shots and treatment and my wife brought the cat home. Upon my arrival from work that evening, my wife and daughter gracefully persuaded me to allow them to keep it. Hence, "Blackie" became part of our family that night. Ok...so you are probably thinking, "What the heck does this have to do with beer?". Patience my young Padawans, and I will get to that.
As I has started to say earlier until I rudely interrupted myself with by "Kitty" talk. I was in the process of brewing a nice brown ale with no name. I just wanted to try out a new recipe a friend had told me about to see how good it would turn out. Well...as you might guess, Blackie was all over the counter, sniffing here and sniffing there, curious as a cat (oops, she was a cat..hehe). Anyway, when it was time to add the bittering hops, I had carefully weight out the proper amount and turned to check on the wart to make sure it was at a nice steady boil. Upon my return to get the hops Blackie was EATING it. Thats right, eating the hop leaves...she loved them!!!
Well, the rest is history and I named the ale "Blackie's Brown Ale'. This batch is a derivative of that recipe, which I will post the ingredients and process later.
So, enough of me rambling on. This batch will start on Saturday, May 10, 2008. I will post pictures and momentous events along the way.
Ta Ta for now.
-dave
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