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Phoenix Fire Brewing Phoenix Fire Brewing is the home brewing operation of David and Sandy Gilbert. Our page is the social extension of our official website.

This is the social gathering spot for Phoenix Fire Brewing. Here we plan on sharing up to the minute news, pictures, and conversations with anyone interested in us, our beers, and whats going on with our brewing operations.

17/09/2016

This weekend, I am beginning an experiment... I finally have the ability to add a shop to my site, and I am going to see if it can completely move the online presence of Phoenix Fire Brewing onto FB. I originally wanted to use the website as a way of tracking our beers, and social activities and what not, but that turned out to be more of a PITA than it was worth. FB, on the other hand, relates everything strictly to your timeline, so there was no way to present a specific beer and all of it's associated info together. I am hoping having a shop will provide that functionality. So in the next few days, I will be adding some inventory, some product descriptions, and some posts about them, to see how the info flows. I appreciate any feedback anyone cares to provide about how all of this looks from the outside world, since as the page owner, my experience is somewhat different. Okay, all this typing has made me thirsty, time for a beer!

Well, we didn't get everything done, but it was still a pretty good day. Thats 10 gallons, two different beers each spl...
20/02/2016

Well, we didn't get everything done, but it was still a pretty good day. Thats 10 gallons, two different beers each split into two slightly tweaked versions. A kick-ass dopplebock, with a very very low custom carb level requested by a friend and a more standard level for me, with bottle conditioning yeast added. At 11.8%, it shoud age wonderfully. Then, a Sour Galaxy Hop Pale Ale, one very clean batch and one with a bit of funk. This thing is killer in every way -- malty, bready, slightly sour, slightly citrus, tangy and funky. It is just an amazing beer. All along the way, nursing a bottle of the belgian dubbel bottled last week, also awesome, and little samples from everything we bottled today. All in all, a good day.

20/02/2016

Well, if all goes as planned it will be a busy weekend here at Phoenix Fire. We plan on bottling two batches today. Q-Ale, round two, a brash assertive dopplebock, and the initial round of our Sour Galaxy Pale Ale. Both of these are born out of the wild success of two initial experimental recipes which were part of test batches for the new all electric system and new chiller. Seems like the new gear is paying great dividends. All the beers have been amazing good, including these two so far, our throughput is much higher, and the process on brew day is smooth. In addition to bottling these two, I hope to make it to the LHBS to get ingredients for two more batches tomorrow. Getting our inventory up in advance of all the summer socializing!!

02/02/2016

Q-Ale goin at it! Woo Hoo!

31/01/2016

It's a busy brew day here. We are making round 2 of Q-Ale, a commissioned Dopplebock that was so popular at it's tapping that a second request immediately got made (this in spite of very very low carbonation). I am going to CBC-1 yeast at bottling this time to address the carbonation issue.

Also, we are starting a sour version of the Galaxy Pale Ale we made about a month ago, as it may well be the best thing we ever made, and so we will begin the sour mash on that today.

Finally, The Monk, our revival of an old Belgian Dubbel recipe from back in my day, is ready for cold crashing, and we will be bottling it later this week.

The new all electric system combined with the new Jaded Immersion chiller continues to do great work.

Brew On!!

A special beer, for a special release, from a special team at work. I am honored to be asked to make the commemorative ...
28/01/2016

A special beer, for a special release, from a special team at work. I am honored to be asked to make the commemorative brew, and while I wish it were carbed better, it has a bold brash in your face flavor that suites the team well. Looking forward to Friday!!

04/01/2016

Our third experiment today was a new pump to get wort out of the kettle and into the fermenter. That was a total fail, and likely my fault; I think the lines I put onto it are too large, and it cannot get full flow through them, and then it sucks in an air bubble and looses prime... back to the drawing board on that one.

04/01/2016

Our second experiment today, the new immersion chiller, gets a 50/50... a leak on an input hose flooded our pre-chiller, rapidly costing us all benefit of even having it and threatening to flood the kitchen. Even with that, we managed to chill 5 gallons of wort down from boiling to 85 in less than 6 minutes, so I am confident that once we get the leaks all under control, the chiller will do great work.

04/01/2016

So, the first trial beer with the new brew system was a smashing success. We actually had many experiments at once going on today, and some went better than others, but the electrical brew system was awesome. Once we get a little more familiar with it, learn a few new process, stop tripping over ourselves, and mostly stop chasing our own tail with temp control through the mash, that part will be awesome.

03/01/2016

Today we plan on brewing our pilot batch of beer in the new system. There are still a few parts pieces to get to make it all work, but we are confident we can pull it off.
The beer is going to be an Pale Ale with a large late addition of Galaxy hops. We are using East Kent Goldings for bittering, to keep the hop presence low, looking to highlight the Galaxy hops against the maltiness. We will be using Wyeast ESB yeast, one of my new favorites, to give it an overall British Pub Ale character.

Lets have a naming contest!! Make suggestions for naming the new beer, keeping in mind our breweries motiff, the fact that it is the first beer in the new electric system, and it should be a somewhat malty, fruity British style beer.

If we get enough entries, we will have a vote off here. Otherwise, Sandy and I will pick. Invite your friends as well, just have them like the page and then vote!

02/01/2016

This is the initial power up, first time we actually applied electricity to the system after installation. After this, we proceeded to profile the heatup from room temp to boiling for 5 gallons of water.

These pictures tell the story of the conversion of our basic system to all electric, and the other changes associated wi...
02/01/2016

These pictures tell the story of the conversion of our basic system to all electric, and the other changes associated with that.

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