A Stout with Legs

February 28th, 2006 | mosquito

choking sun stoutMy cousin Garrett for Christmas last year is making us our own brew modeled after the gonzo imperial porter from flying dog ales. It’ll be about a month until we have it in house, but we are quite looking forward to it. Two of them will not be consumed (more on that at a later date), and I think there are a couple of people that are asking for one as well. If we could legally sell it, I know how it would be sold, however there is no way anyone is going to pry it from my hands.

Garrett is also being quite dilligent with the process of brewing it so we’ll have another set of photos for the gallery. Right now the gallery is the stock install for gallery 2, but the plan is to integrate it into the site. So please forgive the “stock display.”

For now you can see photos of the studio, recording sessions, Xipetotec’s car crash from earlier this year, and a gallery from a very old show we did in Johnson City, TN (I think that was back in 1996). I should be more dilligent in taking photos while we are in the studio, but it’s one of those things where it would be best if several cameras were mounted in various locations and they just automatically took photos. Of course that would require a digital camera of sorts, and I’m still fairly anti-digital in regards to photos. I prefer the “old school” 35mm.

But back to the brew at hand, which has already blown an airlock during fermentation. Quite a fitting event given we don’t seem to be able to be contained either.

Yes, the label has the logo.

5 comments

Photos up to current are posted. There are tons of them, many more than necessary. Will add more when it comes time to bottle…

Comment by garrett — March 1, 2006 @ 10:19 pm

i noticed that some of the photos were taken around 2am (unless the time stamp on the camera is wrong). i must admit i admire the process and your ability to do it. it’s that kind of stuff that i find far more value in than anything else.

Comment by mosquito — March 1, 2006 @ 10:48 pm

Camera timestamp was totally wrong on most of those pics. Every time we change the batteries, you gotta reset the clock / date…. ugh.

Brewing beer is just a highly specialized form of cooking – If you can cook good food, you can brew beer. Hopefully you guys will like the end product, even if it is different from Flying Dog’s Gonzo Porter. Having never tasted that beer… I used many of the same ingredients, and substituted others where I thought it would be better.

Comment by garrett — March 2, 2006 @ 7:03 am

i can assure you we will like it. :D

Comment by mosquito — March 2, 2006 @ 9:52 am

I’m going to bottle it 2 weeks from tomorrow (Mar 18th), so it most likely will not be carbonated by the time you get it (end of march). You may have to sit on it a week or two before it is… But I think it’ll be worth the wait.

Comment by garrett — March 3, 2006 @ 6:54 am

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