Brew Night

Tonight marks our first of many (hopefully) beers to be brewed for Wolfpack tailgating. We've dubbed it Wolfpack Weizen and it will be a light, refreshing German wheat beer aged with cherries. It might be on the hoppy side for a wheat beer, but we wanted to make sure we had some hop character, and we're doing a small boil so we upped the hops a bit. The recipe is a mix of various weizen and fruit wheat beers I found around the internet.

Wolfpack Weizen
6.6 lbs wheat malt extract (liquid)
.5 lbs Cara-pils
.5 lbs Crystal malt 10L
(grain steeped at appx. 155 for 30 mins and rinsed)
2 oz Hallertau @ 60 mins
1 oz Tettnang @ 5 mins
Wyeast 3068 - Weihenstephan Weizen
1 week primary fermenation
1 week secondary on one can of Oregon Dark Sweet cherry puree

Then we should get 3-4 weeks in the bottles before opening night on September 3rd against South Carolina!!

Three Sheets is Back!

Thanks to the Fine Living Network, we can all continue wishing we had Zane Lamprey's job. FLN will start showing the all-new Season 4 tonight, July 20th at 10pm! It is amazing it took this long for someone else to pick up this show. It had been off the air since Mojo was cancelled on December 1, 2008. While the show is not purely about beer, it is a blend of travel and drinking that is entertaining and fun to watch. Click the link for more information.

Three Sheets