Brew Day

[Dwain Pannell]

Alabama just made home brewing legal in May. Last State in the union -- imagine that. Our statehouse is full of forward thinkers. I used to brew 20 yrs ago when stationed in Savannah and with all the brew pubs, micro brews, and craft brews lately I decided to get back in the game.

So yesterday, I placed a pork butt in Angry Orchard Hard Apple Cider (per Bob Correll). Today was brew day and I knew my brew crew would be hungry so I fired up the WSM at 0 dark early, rubbed the butt with some oil and Bad Byron's Butt Rub, and started down the long road to pulled pork.



Here's my Brown Ale brew kit



and brew kettle



Starting the boil now... you can see the iGrill keeping tabs on the WSM.



All boiled, cooled, yeast pitched, and sitting in the basement for the fermentation. It'll be ready for priming and bottling in a cpl weeks.



...and the butt was ready to go



yum

 

[Nick_U]

That pulled pork looks delicious! What style beer did you brew?

 

[Tony R]

That pulled pork looks delicious! What style beer did you brew?

Ditto what Nick said....

 

[Dwain Pannell]

That pulled pork looks delicious! What style beer did you brew?

It's an English Brown Ale (similar to Newcastle). I prefer the beers that are not as hoppy and no so strong I cannot enjoy several in a session.

 

[Tony R]

It's an English Brown Ale (similar to Newcastle). I prefer the beers that are not as hoppy and no so strong I cannot enjoy several in a session.

Thanks Dwain.
Have a great weekend.

 

[Pat Romero]

Nicely done, Dwain! Let me know how the taste test goes on the beer when it's ready

 

[Dwain Pannell]

Nicely done, Dwain! Let me know how the taste test goes on the beer when it's ready

Absolutely Pat.

 

[Paul Kastner]

butts and brew can it get any better?

 

[John Solak]

Good looking PP. What do you use to cool down the wort?

 

[Dwain Pannell]

Good looking PP. What do you use to cool down the wort?

I have a copper coil I run water from the garden hose thru. It takes ~20 minutes to get ~4 gals of wort below 85*. I added more spring water to get to my 5 gal batch.

 

[Bill Schultz]

Great job on the Butt Dwain, and that Beer is something I would love to try. Well done my friend

 

[Bob Mann]

That's great Dwain!

 

[Hamilton Barnes]

Great looking brew and Pork!!! Never tried doing both in the same session, maybe something to try!!

 

[Mike Coffman]

Pulled pork looks delicious Dwain and can't wait until you do your taste test on the brew!

 

[Matt Gard]

I hope the beer comes out as awesome as that PP looked.

 

[Bob H.]

Looks like the best of 2 worlds, bbq and home made brew. I was at a wedding last night at a pub that brews its own beers.
But when they offered a beer made with bananas I had to pass and bite my tongue.

 

[Mike Cosgrove]

Awesome post Dwain, I'm going to a homebrew party today.

 

[Morgan C.]

Fun stuff Dwaine! I've been contemplating getting into home brew myself I just haven't made the jump! Pork butt looks awesome too!

 

[russ olin]

nice post barley water and pork love both life is good in USA

 

[Tim McCann]

Looks great Dwain.