Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:41 am
Oh, man, I'd love to go, but I'm assisting in a Wine Making class on that day :/ Is it an all weekend long event, or just Saturday? Yakima is only a 3 hour drive from Portland, and the earliest I could possibly be there would be like dinner time. I went to hopmadness over the Labor Day holiday, and picked 12 lbs of various hops. I made a freshop scottish ale with the Crystal hops I picked, and vacuum sealed the rest for another brewski (maybe a Scottish 80S?) on Monday. I really love what fresh hops do for a beer, given the proper hops, and style. Just racked the Ballantine clone yesterday, and the current gravity is 1.010, with an OG of 1.072. Pretty tasty so far, will oak, and dry hop when it drops and clears to try and emulate the original practices by Ballantine before Pabst slaughtered the first truly American IPA!
