Brewing Madness..!!

Hello out there!

Well I sure did have a great weekend. On Saturday Bob Pierce and I brewed up a 10 gallon batch of an American Pale Ale that I have been working on for a while, and the session went pretty good. I ran into Bob a few months ago on the beertools.com forum and he lives fairly close to me! I invited him over to join me to brew and he finally had the time to come over. I was surprised when he rolled into my driveway at around 7:30 AM! It was great to meet him in person and we hit it off right away! The brew session went real nicely too. We both had a very pleasent day hanging out and talking about brewing and methods and recipies. Speaking of recipies, I thought that I'd post the APA that we brewed. It is shown below. I currently have a 5 gallon batch of IPA and a 10 gallon batch of APA fermenting right now, so it will be at least 3 weeks until I can brew again. I guess we can talk about the brewery some more next week and I'll try to post a couple of pics of what's fermenting in the Big Blue Box. The next brew coming up will be my favorite, Hawks Landing Pale Imposter. It's an imatation Pillsner that I worked up and it is a lot of fun to make. We'll be doing a 15 gallon batch this time and it will be served at my annual Brew Day Brewery Tour Brewing Awareness party that will be held sometime in May. I will have about 40 gallons of homebrew to serve that includes 6 or 7 different styles! Brad and I are getting together soon to brew another Porter too!

Well...that's all for now..brew good!
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Hawks Landing Howie's Celebration
10-A American Pale Ale
Size: 11.5 gal
Efficiency: 77.55%
Attenuation: 77.5%
Calories: 172.24 per 12 fl oz
Original Gravity: 1.052 (1.045 - 1.060)
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 (1.010 - 1.015)
Color: 10.8 (5.0 - 14.0)
Alcohol: 5.28% (4.5% - 6.0%)
Bitterness: 47.63 (30.0 - 45.0)

Ingredients:
11.00 lbs American 2-row
7.00 lbs Maris Otter
0.50 lbs Crystal Malt 10°L
0.50 lbs Crystal Malt 40°L
1.00 lbs Munich 20L Malt
1.00 lbs Victory® Malt
1.50 lbs White Wheat Malt
1.0 oz Nugget (11.8%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
2.0 oz Amarillo (9.7%) - added during boil, boiled 15.0 min
1.5 oz Cascade (5.50%) - added during boil, boiled 15.0 min
0.5 gal WYeast 1056 American Ale
2.0 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - added during boil, boiled 15.0 min

Schedule:
00:11:14 Mash In - Liquor: 6.12 gal; Strike: 168.7 °F; Target: 154.0 °F
01:26:14 Saccharification Rest - Rest: 75.0 min; Final: 150.8 °F
01:33:28 Mash Out - Heat: 7.2 min; Target: 168.0 °F
02:18:28 Sparge - Sparge: 10.03 gal sparge @ 170.0 °F, 13.48 gal collected, 45.0 min; Total Runoff: 13.48 gal
(90 Minute Boil)