Roggen is down!

..and we're gonna give Timmay the win for that one. He was over last night and pretty much dealt the death blow on the Roggen. 5 pints at the very end of it's life and she was clear as a bell and tasting the finest. Really nice there, and then [poof!] gone. Replaced last night by the Rambler v1.2 I did up with Will S. Tried to pull a pint last night (cause I'd already primed it in the keg with a couple ounces of corn sugar..) cause I knew it was carbed, but it came out like muddy chocolate milk, all full of yeast particles. I grabbed another one this afternoon and tossed that as well, as it was like regular milk at this stage, so yeasty.. better compacted, I suspect, from the cold sit overnight, but not really drinkable.. and the third one, here:















..is still really cloudy, but I don't see any real huge particles in it. I wonder if it's gonna clear up, or stay this orangy-ish color. I've had a bit of what looks like a haze in some o my rye beers in the past, and, although this only has a single pound of rye in it, I wonder how that'll affect things. In a positive note, it's got carbonation the lies of which usually take WEEKS to settle in. So tight carb-bubble wise, it's crazy. Still tastes yeasty, but I've got a pretty good bitterness in the background, and a touch of flavor from the hops too. There's a big malt hit in the middle, and the rye, again, at just one pound, is coming through like a train. Rye is some crazy stuff.. big, big flavor impact from that grain.

In other news, here's a shot of the framework (or, some of it..) of the chicken coop I'm building here.. I spent hours on this yesterday, and some more hours today too already, and this is where I'm at so far:















Well, I'm off to put in the floor of the thing now. Went out and actually bought my first power tool today! Jigsaw. Yep. Power tool. Yay me.