Wasn't long after Crotchtoberfest wrapped up that I was right at it brewing an American Brown Ale for this year's Thanxmas.
On tap is a clone kit of Big Sky Brewing's Moose Drool. Seemed interesting and I am a big fan of brown ales. The American versions are a bit more hoppy than the English counterpart and this batch has an interesting mix of 3 different variates: Goldings, Liberty and Willamette. Lots of interesting specialty grains too, Black Malt, Briess Caramel and Fawcett Pale Chcolate. Drooling yet? I am. Hard to believe its less than two months until Thanxmas. Where did '10 go?
I had my students whip up some labels for this batch as part of an exercise in photoshop. Figured I would share some of my favorites:
**UPDATE**:
Primary fermentation is going swimmingly. Everything is right on schedule. Probably transfer things to secondary this weekend or so for about 3 weeks then bottling just before Turkey day for two weeks of bottle conditioning before Thanxmas. Gonna be a busy end to 2010 at Kaulback Farm!
nice, i like them all but i think you could easily fit damien into the third one down, so it gets my vote
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dude...you turned your class into a sweat shop....haha....im gonna love this beer...brown ales are my favorite too...i like the second label
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hi, new to the site, thanks.
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