For about 3 years or so, the Falcons have had a barrel aging project! We have been removing and adding to our Heaven Hill Rye Whiskey barrel, the famous Falcons' barleywine. It has not received much attention in the recent past, but that changed on Friday, Feb 21.
On the day after our great 2013 Doug King Homebrew competition, we had the Falcon’s January Shop brew. This month, the brew crew was led by the MF VP Ed Kochanowski, aka Jersey. The duties of a brew crew leader are to supply a recipe, help the crew members to enjoy their experience with all-grain brewing by guiding them through the steps of grain milling, doughing in, mashing, sparging, boiling, hop adding, cooling, carboy filling, oxygenating, yeast pitching, and equipment cleaning. Also the crew leader collects the costs for the ingredients and pays the shop. The final task
Count down to the holidays with a special calendar that reveals a different beer every day. The beer advent calendar adds a little mystery to your holiday drinking. There are 24 days in most advent calendars, but mine is 25 - because if there is any day when you're going to want a beer I think it would be the 25th.
