Today I live the dream!

[two_one_seven]

Heading in to my local brew pub, Obed and Issac's, to brew my recipe. Redemption Roggenbier. So excited

 

[smakudwn]

Congrats, take pictures!!

 

[Pugnax88]

That's awesome. I feel like roggenbier should be more popular than it is.

 

[signpost]

Totally awesome! I'm jealous.

 

[two_one_seven]

Mashing in!

 

[two_one_seven]

229 lbs of Rye, not good for mash paddle.

 

[two_one_seven]

Broken mash paddles make brewers grumpy.

 

[two_one_seven]

We have wort. It took forever and was a ton of work because of the sticky rye.

 

[two_one_seven]

Boiling almost 10 bbls. Brewer hands me the hose and says it gets violent at 209.......watch out for the boil monster. 300 gallons of boiling water erupting out of a kettle is a frightening thought.

 

[two_one_seven]

End of a long day brewing.....and 5 beers.

 

[Teromous]

Mash vs paddle.

That looks more like a canoe paddle than a mash paddle though.

 

[two_one_seven]

It was. They started as homebrewers and the paddle had sentimental value. I guess we took care of that. Thank god it wasn't me who broke it.

 

[Teromous]

That's pretty awesome. This beer deserves a legendary name though. Roggenwrath the Oarslayer

 

[two_one_seven]

LOL, yeah I agree it got it's name before it was born. We were thinking something campy like "Up a Creek" .

 

[zima_182]

Awesome!

 

[wilserbrewer]

229 lbs of Rye, not good for mash paddle.

Haha, yea I have an old boyhood friend that could break a crow bar...he did play O-line for the Miami Hurricanes, some people are just hard on tools I guess.

A 10B boil over, frightening indeed!

 

[unionrdr]

So,how's your beer coming along? Did you win a competition or something where this was the grand prize? I bet you had to shovel out the mash tun too?...What the hell though...it still has to be a good kinda tired. As for the name,how bout "Odin's Oarslayer"?

 

[two_one_seven]

Yeah, we do a contest every year. It's a fun beer community here in Springfield, IL.

I like it union......they have an Obed's Pride Amber already so it would be like a series. LOL!

It's dropped from 1.054 to 1.016 in 3 days.....crazy. Had a taste tonight and it is pretty dang close to my homebrew version and the rye masks the green beer flavors so it's pretty good already. It will realease in a couple of weeks.