Wet Ted 69 Creation

Greetings!

So I've been so excited about creating this post that I just couldn't wait any longer. I went home and quickly filmed this. Like I've said before in the past I try not to post non-stop for you guys, but I think you'll really enjoy this. Video is a little over 9 minutes long. Sorry for the crappy editing but I'm not a film major. I filmed everything myself using a oint-and-shoot camera. Enjoy!

Here's a first draft of what I plan on brewing, upholding to all of the requirements set forth by myself. I did want to give myself some control so I picked my own hops along with the grain weights. I should explain the name: Wet for undried fresh hops, Ted for the person this beer is in honor of, and 69 for the amount of minutes I'll boil for.

Amt Name Type # %/IBU 9 lbs Pale Malt (Weyermann) (3.3 SRM) Grain 1 81.8 % 1 lbs 8.0 oz Caramel Malt - 60L (Briess) (60.0 SRM) Grain 2 13.6 % 8.0 oz Caramunich III (Weyermann) (71.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.5 %

Amt Name Type # %/IBU 1.00 oz Nugget [13.00 %] - Boil 69.0 min Hop 4 45.6 IBUs 1.00 oz Nugget [13.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 5 34.1 IBUs 1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 6 6.2 IBUs 2.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 8.0 min Hop 7 10.3 IBUs 1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 7.0 min Hop 8 4.6 IBUs 1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 3.0 min Hop 9 2.1 IBUs 0.50 oz Nugget [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 10 0.0 IBUs

I hope you all have enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed making it. Plan is to brew on Saturday. If you want to join just let me know and I'll keep you up to date.

Prost!

-Ryan

Harvest

Last night Ted invited me out to his place to help harvest his hops. He told me I could take home anything I picked as he was swamped in hops. He wasn't kidding! Below are some pictures from last night. By the way, I forgot my camera at home so all I had to use was the crappy cellphone.

That's a lot of hops. Stuff on the ground is what we had to pick.

My Friend, the hops bundle

Ted the Hops Zombie is here to bitter your beer!

As a thank you to Ted for giving me close to 3lbs of cascade hops and an unknown amount of Chinook I plan on brewing a beer in a Ted fashion. Don't know what I'm talking about? Well enjoy this episode of brewing TV that he and my other friend Paul we're on. Brewing TV - Episode 44: Dice-Hopped IPAs  Check back soon as I'm going to have a lot of fun making this Ted-Style brew!

Prost!

-Ryan