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Rusty Barrel Homebrewing - Richmond, VA
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Iβm setting up this space to share my adventures in the craft of homebrewing. Check out my blog for more focused discussion on certain topics, or check out my beers section for photos and recipes on all of my homebrew batches. Questions? Comments? Shoot me a message on the contact section. Cheers!
15 mins of fameβ¦
In 2019 I had the opportunity to collaborate with Stone Brewing to brew one of my homebrew recipes on a commercial scale. This beer, Mango Maya Milkshake IPA, was entered in the Pro-Am competition at Great American Beer Festival in fall 2019.
Follow my adventures.
![Kveik hothead NEIPA has reached terminal gravity - 5 days after brew day. .
Do any of you guys give kveik cleanup time or should I just run it? .
Full disclosure I cant wait for yalls responses so I'm running it π](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1593403397948-J4K61NCBK8MHWVCEZYMI/image-asset.jpeg)
![playin with more label designs today.....this one is a collab with @crs_acrylic](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1593375631591-ZEVVLO6TT3GUHI8G0F85/image-asset.jpeg)
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![I might have to change the name of this IPA from "Cant Get Right" to "Actually Kinda Alright" π€ .
I turned up the carbonation in the keg, its settled down a little bit and tasting pretty sharp and hoppy and nice. But zero clarit](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1593213151795-ZWWN0K2TG6TO79L6U6T4/image-asset.jpeg)
![π₯HOT KVEIK FRIDGEπ₯ .
Last year when our kitchen fridge started having minor annoying issues we elected to get a new one, but the old one was still at least cooling, I moved it to the brewery for extra fermentation space .
As with everything else](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1593063861628-T198KILT00IFW5AHGPGJ/image-asset.jpeg)
![all tests passing on night 2 of canning tests .
Tomorrow night I'll open up these cans and see what's up. I think I'll prob need to increase carbonation in the kegs in the coming days, dust off the old beer gun and do an official run π .
Shout out](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1592883825351-XYFPR3S7G5HC4XLBSJC1/image-asset.jpeg)
![YES WE CAN!! . (.....er, well trying to. HOPE! π) .
A while back I fell into a deal on an oktober MK series canner from a closing mellow mushroom somewhere in South Carolina i think. Living in richmond va I was able to acquire it through a beer tra](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1592803380485-UISZWDNDHV5I37CFRXCI/image-asset.jpeg)
![Happy Father's Day to all the great homebrewin dads out there! π» .
Leave in the comments how homebrewing changed since you became a dad! .
For me I try not to let homebrewing get in the way of Daddy duties so I usually do my brew days at night. I](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1592757662766-XOWE654AGQ3Q6HTFKARV/image-asset.jpeg)
![I POST MY F*CK UPS TOO! π . "Cant Get Right" is a 7% "west coast" style ipa I've had on draft for a week or so now and it tastes... fine. but makes me annoyed every pint I pour. . (For starters its hazy af. I know how to make cle](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1592627859606-QCHPPO8KOP2UJNEE2IU9/image-asset.jpeg)
![#1 benefit from running a brewery in your garage and also working from home is that you can pull a draft beer 30 seconds after you close your laptop πππ»](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6e213da5ceb45cfbd9233/1592445016690-9J8M25QHGL93TZOFEIE3/image-asset.jpeg)
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