What's on Draught?: I have been a bad blogger...

It has been far too long since my last blog post and I apologize for my inconsistency. I recently decided to take this blog, brewing, beer and everything a lot more seriously. Especially if this is something that I am going to strive to do later in life (brewing that is). So what better way to get back into the swing of thing than to get back to making some good ol' fashioned home-brew. I believe that one of my last posts was about how I brewed my first original recipe (a porter) and It turned out pretty good for my first time brewing an original all-grain beer. Well I went back, tweaked the recipe, gained some more knowledge about effective ways to mash and sparge a successful amount of wort and what did I get? My new porter. My wort yield was about 100% better than the first time which will hopefully give my beer a much more full bodied feel. I also upped the amount of specialty malts to give it an even more roasty and malty flavor. I am extremely excited for this beer to be done. I measured the OG around 1.070 which means this should be a fairly alcoholic beer too. I'll let you all know when it is finished but until then here are some pictures from this most recent brewing event.