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32 is a batch of beer that carrie brewed up for my birthday. it’s an India Pale Ale recipe, with a few modifications (which are a secret, even to me).

an update: it just went from primary to secondary fermenter, with an gravity drop from 1.083 to 1.020. if you’re playing along at home, that’s an ABV of 8.332%! yow, looks like we’ll be putting this exclusively into 12oz bottles.

will report again in a few weeks with the finishing gravity.

edinborough is a scottish ale, and our 5th batch brewed. we recently bottled it and will report more when we drink it. (brewed from a scottish ale kit from homebrew heaven). we modified the recipe by adding more malt, and priming it with DME instead of corn sugar.

Danvers is a honey wheat beer that carrie brewed. it’s fantastic!

Coupeville - a rasberry wheat beer that carrie brewed. it’s good - a bit light on priming sugar, so not as carbonated as it could be. but quite tasty.

Bedfordshire is our 2nd batch of beer brewed at home. we’re not entirely sure of the style or origin; it was a “mystery beer” kit purchased from homebrewheaven.

given the amount, variety & frequency of hopping, we assume it’s either an India Pale Ale, or another sort of pale. (hence, the “bedfordshire” name). it’s just about ready to drink, so that will help us out a bit, too.

Antwerp was our first brew - a belgian ale. (kit from homebrewheaven.com)

not a bad first attempt. nothing went wrong, less a few bottles we didn’t adequately rinse out the sanitizer and they tasted slightly of iodine.

not especially remarkable, but not bad either.