Categories: Updates
Today is our good friend Xon’s birthday! He’s the shy one you can recognize in all our photos. He typically has his back turned towards the camera, or if we catch his face he edit’s it out.
We spent a great portion of the weekend partying and celebrating the event. It was a nice change from last weekend when just about everything went wrong on our brew day. We didn’t even go check on the porter, felt it was best to let it go another week and try to forget the yeastie explosion next to the carboys. We’ll circle back this weekend and try to salvage the 18 gallons of beer.
Categories: Brewing, Startup Woes
This past weekend the original plan was to brew up our original porter combined with what was supposed to be an imperial version of the porter as well. It seems as the brewing gods had it in for us from the beginning:
- The propane tank ran out of propane when kicking off the first boil.
- Hooray, it was only the reserve tank that was empty.
- Nope, the actual tank ran out of propane shortly after.
- Hooray, we had a spare tank to get us through the two batches.
- CO2 tank runs out, requires a quick trip to the sporting goods store.
- Imperial Porter was supposed to have a gravity reading of 1.110, comes out with a reading of 1.070.
- Screw it, we’ll just add something to it later to make it a unique porter. We’ll just add some yeast…BANG
- Lid to our yeast storage container blows and spews yeastie goodness all over the walls and not into the carboys.
I don’t think we have had more things go wrong on a single day of brewing. However it wasn’t a total loss. We still have 18 gallons of porter fermenting waiting for experimenting. We also got to hang out with a really cool cat, Marcel. A lot of use bay area beer guys know this guy, and he is super knowledgeable about everything beer.
As Thomas Edison vaguely said…”I did not fail at making an imperial porter, I simply found a way not to make it.”
Categories: Brewing, Events
SF Beer Week has started releasing the list of events for the week. Here are the events that we plan on being at. If you will be at an event we haven’t listed, let us know which one and we will see about making time to get to it.
Feb 6th – Double IPA Festival
Where – The Bistro – 1001 B St. Hayward, CA 94541
When – TBD
Price – Free, but beers you gotta pay for
Feb 7th – Homebrew Demo
Where – Seven Bridges Cooperative – 325A River St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060
When – 12:00 – 2:00
Price – Free
Feb 9th – Meet the Brewer: Rob Tod, Allagash Brewing Co
Where – The Trappist – 460 8th St. Oakland, CA 94607
When – 6:00 – 8:00
Price – Free, but space will be limited
Feb 10th – Meet the Brewer: Vinnie Cilurzo, Russian River Brewing Co.
Where – The Trappist – 460 8th St. Oakland, CA 94607
When – 6:00 – 8:00
Price – Free, but space will be limited
Feb 13th – Homebrew Demonstration with 510 Brewing Co.
Where – Jack’s Brewing Co. – 39176 Argonaut Way Fremont, CA 94538
When – 12:00 – 5:00
Price – Free. Specialty beers will be available for purchase.
Categories: Updates
No, we’re not talking about aliens. We are talking about supercharging this little project we call 510 Brewing and plan on putting the petal to the metal in 2010. Here’s why:
- The business plan is almost done and ready for professional people to look at.
- We are confirmed and all set to host a public event in February for SF Beer Week
- 2010 and 510 end with 10
We hope all 5 of you that mosey upon this site have an awesome new year and we hope to make contact with you in 2010. Ha! Get it…make contact? Happy New Year!
Posted on January 18th, 2010 by tsmith
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