The Caboose

First you will notice that the look of the blog changed.  I started playing with stuff when I put the Facebook and Twitter links in and liked the clean look of this layout.  It should change some more, but I can't figure out some of the header stuff to put in the logo.  Blogger almost makes things too simple to the point where you can't do things you want to do.  The Facebook page just got put up, so if this is the first time to the blog, welcome.  Twitter is up, I m going to try to start using that, so we'll see.

Today I am brewing the first batch of The Caboose and racking last week's Stout into secondary fermenters with some additions to the fermenters.  Here is what we have going on The Caboose:

The Caboose 

Style: Old Ale
Malts: American 2-Row, Aromatic, Caramunich, Munich, Special B
Hops: Cascade, Chinook, Nugget
ABV: ~7%
Playlist: Couldn't do the Christmas music yet, Reckless Kelly's "Snowfall" was good enough to put me in the winter mood.  Working on a skiing playlist with some Counting Crows, Blues Traveler and all the other great songs from Warren Miller films.

Its only fitting for a Holiday Beer that it be really cold outside when I make it, the least it could do is snow so I could go skiing.

I split the Stout into two batches, one batch is aging on Cocoa Nibs, Vanilla Bean and Peppermint. Since I was not able to track down enough huckleberries, the other one is not on anything and can be a control to try next to the chocolate vanilla peppermint one.