One Down.. Two more to go.

As I'm sure you all saw earlier today, I gave myself a challenge. This afternoon I brewed the Irish Red ale from Midwest Supplies. I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on this as you can read all about it from their website. Brew day went fine with myself sitting and watching a whole lot of water boil.

Took this picture while waiting for the batch water to heat up. The final numbers came in almost pin-point what beersmith said they should. OG: 1.054 with 5.25gal going into the fermentor. Brewhouse efficiency: 71.68%.

Color is a little darker then I was thinking it should be for a red, but things always look different after everything settles. Tonight I plan on starting to work on my helle recipe. Not sure when the next brew day will be as Erin's car is having some weird sounds which I'll need to address. It's looking like wed may be the next brew day.

Tomorrow I'll make a trip to Midwest to spend some (or all) of the giftcard I got. I'm still working out the details of how I'm going to run 3 taps on my single tower kegorator, which talking with the guys at Midwest should help. Look for an update soon. 

Prost!
-Ryan