Making Some Brew

Several of us throw a fairly large party in May with a pancake breakfast, hot dogs, lots of beer, and bands. Here's my friend Bill (right) posing with last years huge batch of beer. Phil, anthor helper friend, stirs the grain in the mash tun .
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This year we are making a nice hoppy pale ale and a brown ale similar to a New Castle. . ..yum. . .
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Tonight we'll be racking both beers and dry hopping the pale ale. The fun part is getting the brew into the sanke kegs (15.5 gallons). . . . I'll post more pics in the next few days. . . .