Beer Garden Gnome

BEER GARDEN GNOME 

http://www.etsy.com/listing/68300527/beer-drinking-gnome-garden-gnomes-for

Honestly, it's just essential for any garden.  Put me down for 30 orders.

Pumpkinness

**PUMPKINNESS**

Yes my friends, that's right.  It's what I like to call a "Black & Orange" instead of a "Black & Tan," or a Pumpkinness.  Half PumKing from Southern Tier, half Guinness... pure genius.  The guys at Blue Tusk know what they're doing and this beer combination is fantastic!  While I thoroughly enjoy the sweetness and overpowering spice level of a tradional PumKing (Southern Tier), a Pumpkinness (I came up with the name, no need to thank me) really mellows out these flavors and the Guinness infuses the PumKing with roasty, dark and malty flavors.  The aroma of the PumKing still floats above the Guinness to smack you in the face every time you take a sip, which is amazing.  And when you get to the end of the beer, it's pure, delicious PumKing.  Thanks Blue Tusk!

Adventures of the Chocolate Stout

Adventures of the Chocolate Stout

Hops randomly found on our adventures in Ithaca.

Checking the temperature in our mash tun.

Boiling the wort outside on our patio on top of a turkey burner (highly recommended procedure...)

There's a heart in our beer!  I'll take that as a sign.

Thank you Martha Stewart for helping us make some delicious beers.

First fermentation.

Transferring the beer into three separate carboys for the second fermentation.  Three experimental batches of beer that we'll reveal when they're finished.

Taking our final gravity reading.  Turned out to be a tad lower than we'd like but we're hoping it increases during the second fermentation.

More to come...