In the meantime, My Cherry Valentine is just about ready for bottling! Anyone want to join me? I'm thinking I'll do it Friday morning. After that it will need about 2 weeks in the bottle - just in time for Valentine's Day. Here are the stats:
Brew No. 13: My Cherry Valentine
brewed: January, 2011
4.5lb Light DME
0.5lb Wheat DME
2.75lb honey malt
2oz cascade hops @ 55mins
1oz cascade hops @ 15mins
IRISH MOSS for clarity
White Labs California Ale Yeast
4oz Cherry extract and 3oz clover honey added after primary fermentation
OG 1.060
FG 1.014
IBU 42
SRM 14
ABV 6%
For your information, I am planning on entering Pizza Port's Homebrewing Competition next week! I will be submitting My Cherry Valentine and maybe some of Jim Whitaker's Bittakers. We'll see how it goes! Root for me, will ya?
In other news, a video camera has been anonymously donated to Pillbox Brewery so be expecting some amazing video blogs in the future!
(choose a reaction below - come on people! you can do it...)