Phoenix Fire Brewing

This weekend, I am beginning an experiment... I finally have the ability to add a shop to my site, and I am going to see if it can completely move the online presence of Phoenix Fire Brewing onto FB. I originally wanted to use the website as a way of tracking our beers, and social activities and what not, but that turned out to be more of a PITA than it was worth. FB, on the other hand, relates everything strictly to your timeline, so there was no way to present a specific beer and all of it's associated info together. I am hoping having a shop will provide that functionality. So in the next few days, I will be adding some inventory, some product descriptions, and some posts about them, to see how the info flows. I appreciate any feedback anyone cares to provide about how all of this looks from the outside world, since as the page owner, my experience is somewhat different. Okay, all this typing has made me thirsty, time for a beer!

It's a busy brew day here. We are making round 2 of Q-Ale, a commissioned Dopplebock that was so popular at it's tapping that a second request immediately got made (this in spite of very very low carbonation). I am going to CBC-1 yeast at bottling this time to address the carbonation issue.

Also, we are starting a sour version of the Galaxy Pale Ale we made about a month ago, as it may well be the best thing we ever made, and so we will begin the sour mash on that today.

Finally, The Monk, our revival of an old Belgian Dubbel recipe from back in my day, is ready for cold crashing, and we will be bottling it later this week.

The new all electric system combined with the new Jaded Immersion chiller continues to do great work.

Brew On!!

Our third experiment today was a new pump to get wort out of the kettle and into the fermenter. That was a total fail, and likely my fault; I think the lines I put onto it are too large, and it cannot get full flow through them, and then it sucks in an air bubble and looses prime... back to the drawing board on that one.

So, the first trial beer with the new brew system was a smashing success. We actually had many experiments at once going on today, and some went better than others, but the electrical brew system was awesome. Once we get a little more familiar with it, learn a few new process, stop tripping over ourselves, and mostly stop chasing our own tail with temp control through the mash, that part will be awesome.