Today we planned on making the pale ale with the home grown Cascade and Mt. Hood hops. However, after pillaging our ingredients, we decided it was a better idea to clear out most of our inventory into a single batch. The hop heads among us would like to introduce our first ever Fresh Hop Double IPA. This bad boy should ring in around 9% ABV and just a tad over 100 IBU's. The plan is to introduce it at our home brewing event at Jack's Brewing on February 25th. Be there or be square.

Today is the glorious day in which we brew the peppermint porter. We have a typical winter day here in Fremont, rainy and about 50 degrees.

We tweaked the recipe a bit due to the ingredients we had on hand. We are pretty much the MacGuyver's of brew days. Hopefully it turns out good. Dean is currently getting the sparge ready and has a huge sh*t eating grin on his face.

We're currently plowing through our second iteration of the Ctrl-Alt-Del. We are using a new hopping technique that makes this beer amazingly refreshing. The pumpkin ale was taken off the yeast and racked into secondary conditioning last weekend and will be put on CO2 soon. By the warm/uncarbonated tasting session we held while testing the gravity, all signs point to this being the best pumpkin iteration yet.

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Pumpkin Ale for 2011 is in the fermentors and bubbling away like crazy. We'll have it available by the end of November. Kind of late, but like my parents always said....better late then never. Or was it early is on time and on time is too late? Either way this beer is going to be glorious.

If you're interested in being a beta tester for our beers. Shoot us an email at info@510brewing.com.