Recipe: Oatmeal Stout Deuce

This is the fourth stout offered by Thunder Boomer. The original oatmeal stout was brewed on 4/22/06. This one was different...from start to finish.

There was a smokin' hot moma - helpful, knowledgable, cleaned a mean brew store. She knew more than the average Mr. Man at the store, which was a very welcomed suprise. She could even find the torrified wheat...we shall call her Mr. Sister. Also she wasn't drunk.

The recipe is for an oatmeal stout with toasted oats as its foundation. Thunder, Boomer, and TheRook set the grains to steep while they snapped into their first 120 Minute IPA. They were all very shocked at how sweet, syrupy, and floral the 120 was. All agreed that though it was an interesting brew, the 60 and 90 Minute were more the ThunderBoomer Style. But seriously, who cares about this?

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Mexican Pizza was made.

T, B, and T.R. cracked into round 2 with a KPA, Thunder Hole II, and sailed wing on wing before sparging the grains with 150 degree Everett water.

8 oz Toasted Oatmeal
8 oz Chocolate malt
8 oz Torrified Wheat
Sex (6) oz Crystal 60 L
4 oz Roasted Barley

Fugetaboutit. The crew learned something tonight. With every blunder (read:lesson) the Boomer fuses with the Thunder. That sounds like sound logic. Boomer Logic. We burned the muslin sack but we are growing.

The Rook strengthened his name. You ALWAYS turn the heat off to add the DME.

If you didn't put it together, T.R. added the DME...6 lbs. Extra Light DME. Which is weird that the recipe called for Extra light.

Boil Over Bummer.

Boil: under control. T.R. poured the ESB II - lotta head. Thunder showed him the way...and the wort boiled on.

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Added 1.5 oz of Fuggles for entire boil, then tossed in Irish Moss and .3 oz of Kent Gold with 15 left.

Cooled the wort - outdo' (pic)

O.G. Reading: 1.074

TBB. Over and out.
One more thing. Always wash the...okay we are trying to keep this family oriented. "Blow off tube" has been inserted. No discharge yet. The gurgling usually lasts for about 3 days. Then you insert a plug. With an air lock-thingamjig.

Over and out,
Boomer, Thunder and TheRook.

Bottled Bass Clone

For documentation purposes, this rather dull post was created to do one thing: list the date of bottling for the Bass Clone.

January 21, 2007 - same day the Pats blew it.

The beer was fairly malty but balanced with a bit of sweetness. There was no real hop presence other than in bittering. Thunder tasted it as well and can offer another opinion. Should be a pretty straight forward British Ale. Tough to tell whether the Gypsum made a big difference, however, carbonation and colder temp should bring out the flavor of the beer more.

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So how do we feel about some post cards? I threw these together really quickly. I have no idea how much these would cost. But I think they look good. I mean REALLY good.

Pics from the porter brew

I couldn't edit the first post so here are some pics in a new post:

The Old Man in the Porter

Recipe: Jenlain Biere de Garde

Huh? Francois for "French country ale". Thunder is brewing solo due to Boomer's scholastic obligations and Rook's absentia. Ultimately, Thunder needed to reconnect with the brewing process after a 45 day absence (since the Bloody Knuckles Incident).

Recipe calls for:

Steep for 20 minutes-
5 oz of Cara Munich II
6 oz of 60L Crystal

Sparge, bring to boil

Add-
2 cans of Bull's DME
1 oz of Perle hops
45 minutes

Add-
.5 oz of Saaz hops
15 minutes

You know the rest...

No special ingredient due to solitary job. But that's okay, we have plenty of bottling coming down the pipe, no pun intended. As Boomer said, it is kinda exciting to have a carboy of TB at each on of our 3 locales.

20 Gallons of BOOMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Special moments

A typical Thunder Boomer "Dusting".

AND

TheRook, Thunder's lovely wife Sarah, Boomer's lovely S.O. Jenna, and Boomer - all enjoying a Thunder Boomer moment, chez Domenic.

Bottling the Porter, Brewing KPA

This was a while ago...when Duncan was single. Remember that shit?

Recipe: Bass Ale Clone

Per my father's request, we brewed a Bass clone on Saturday evening. Here's the deal:

1 lb Crystal 40L - steeped for 20 minutes at 160, brought to boil

1 lb Dark Brown Sugar
2 Cans John Bull's light extract
1-2 Tablespoons Gypsum

1 oz. Northern Brewer (60 minutes)
1 oz. Fuggles (30 minutes)
Irish Moss (15 minutes)
1/2 oz. Fuggles (5 minutes, steeped for another 10)

White Labs British Ale Yeast (WLP005)

6 gallon carboy so not much blowoff - hopefully this will not result in crappy flavor. Most likely ferment for a few days and then transfer to secondary to reduce impact of foam on top of beer - although it doesn't look that nasty so it might be ok.

Color looks right on and bubbles are fierce and often.

Just so they know we are professionals. whoever they are.

Bloody Knuckles Brew

there's a lot to be said about washing the poop off of your dank, but this beer really made the company take extra special care of sanitation. the reason is located somewhere between the two cans of malt, a blitz clean, and perhaps...the Thunder Boomer secret ingredient.

Recipe: Baltic Porter Revisited

20:00 hours
50 Plymouth Street, Cambridge MA
clear sky, full moon

Baltic Porter Re-do

11 oz Chocolate Malt
8 oz Cara Munich
6 oz Crystal 60L
4 oz British Black Patent Malt

Stooped grains at 150 F for 30 minutes. Sparged grains with 1/2 gallon water at 150 F. Bring to a boil.

1.25 oz Northern Brewer 60 min
Irish Mosh 15 min
.25 oz Hallertau 15 min

Wyeast 2308 Munich Lager Yeast

The mood was light, joyful, sexy? Sure, but not in the way you are thinking. The beer had that smell that makes you want to drink until you black out and pee in bed.

In the Beginning

Here it is boys - our online solution for keeping recipes, notes, fuck-ups, and all things thunder boomer documented. I'd like to get all the old recipes up here with the name of the beer as the title for the post. I shall add you all as editors to the blog.

Over and out.

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