Where to Start?

I don't think I have the time to write about everything that has happened in my microcosmos of brewing since the last post, but I'll give a tiny update that covers a lot and then maybe later I'll find time to fill in more.

There were a handful of brews which I can't remember right now, I'll have to go read the labels and see if I managed to record them on my brewing log, but I believe I brewed a stout or 2 and something else that was pale with medium hoppiness. Then came the 3 week brewathon with Mike. We went to the homebrew shop and Mike was determined to fill every possible fermenter we had. We bought ingredients for about 3 pale ales (made up recipes), 1 Elissa Clone, 1 Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale clone, 1 Stone Darth Porter clone (oaked), 1 Rogue Dead Guy Ale clone (my personal favorite), a made up German Imperial Stout recipe (oaked), 1 Stone Ruination IPA clone (oaked) and 2 other brews, which I made from ingredients that I had bought right before the huge trip to the brew store. I believe one was a hoppy Pale Ale and the other was a red ale.

So far we bottled the Sierra Navada clone, a pale ale with Czech hops, a pale ale with Cascades hops, and another pale ale with a variety of hops, and the Dead Guy. The pale ales generally are pretty mild - we intended those to be people pleasers, the Celebration Ale was pretty hoppy, very good but a little overcarbonated, the Dead Guy came out great. It's got such a great malty aroma and medium-strong hoppiness. I don't think it tastes like real Dead Guy buy it's amazing. 5 gallons of the 15 of the mixed hop pale ale we set aside and I added a ton of dry hops to it, so it should be very aromatic with a good IPA hoppiness. I will be bottling that right now - like when I finish typing.

Needless to say my tiny beer fridge is loaded. Believe it or not less than 10% of what's in there is from our brewathon. If anyone wants to come over and have a beer - feel free.