BK BREWERY NOW HAS CABLE TV!!!!!!!!!!!!

To encourage more brewing especially during playoff season and for just all around something to watch while brewing takes place the BK BREWERY is proud to announce it has cable TV! now let the brewing never be interrupted by a sports game again, now can do both!

BEER STYLE GUIDE

Have a request for the brewmaster at the BK BREWERY? Find a style you like HERE.

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE BREW

Vote for you favorite style of beer in the right hand corner of this page. The 2 top voted styles will go into another poll for type and flavor of that style. these will be the brews i will bring to the Big Long Beach COL so choose wisely! and as always enjoy responsibly!

~Brew Master at the BK Brewery

ICE MAKER HOOKED UP AT THE BK BREWERY

So since my kegerator HAS an ice maker i decided i should USE the ice maker, lets face it you never know when you need ice. so i also used my filtration system i built to run the water through before freezing so the ice will be more potable. had to rig up a female GHT ball valve to a 3/8" barb and just hose clamped it in the ice maker hose after cutting off orignaly compression fittings.Boom! simple and useful!

ICE HERE GET YOUR ICE!!!

Next Beer Strawberry Blonde!

so after deciding to make the blueberry wheat ale, the next ingredients i ordered are for a very light and refreshing strawberry blonde. i remember liking petes strawberry blonde so hopefully it will taste as good. plus a lot of the ingredients to make "summer" beers are on sale right now so that had something to do with it too! i guess its a fruity season some lets make some fruit beers!

Received some brew equipment

so today i received some brewing equipment to add to the BK brewery. new pressure relief valve for my kegs cause they were old and leaky so just replaced those, new gas in and gas out posts as a backup incase one keg has an issue with either post, and a new tool i'm really excited about, a winethief. now a wine thief for those who don't know is used to draw sampled from the fermenters while using a hydrometer to check the gravity, or sugar content, of the beer. this is the only true way to measure and know the fermentation has completed. you CAN wait a certain amount of days to make sure fermentation has completed, but why wait extra time, and why not know when its done. i also recieved some carboy caps, but it hink i will just use stoppers so mayb these will be sent back.

on order i have a bunch of stoppers, a plastic racking cane, and some 5/16" id hose so i can make a makeshift counter pressure filler so i can bottle my brews from the keg, and send them to competitions, friends, and family. also still waiting for my ingredients to get here for my next wheat ale, should be here tomorrow!! and now thinking i am going to do half blueberry wheat and half strawberry kiwi wheat. just need to decide when to add the flavorings.

NEED TO BUILD A FERMENTING RACK

So I’ve been experiencing some beer loss when i rack from different vessels, so I decided I’m going to build a fermenting rack. Basically my theory behind this is since I need to tilt my carboys at an angle to get as much beer as I can before I start picking up sediment then why not build a rack to hold them at that angle throughout fermentation. My only current worry is whether the airlocks will work at a slight angle so I’ll need to play with that. Also whether it will have any adverse affect on the yeast, but I wouldn't think it would. But definite benefits are the yeast cake will pack tighter and out of the way in the corner and I can get better efficiency, and I won’t have to hold a full 5 gallons of beer at an angle while I transfer. This will hopefully improve the process and make things easier, I’m going to try it on the next brews and see how it works…..

BK BREWERY STATUS

Looking for the latest happening at the BK brewery? Want to know whats on tap? Wondering whats going to be brewed next?

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