Wick's Home Brew

The ole lady and I along with another couple went to the Suds of the South beer fest in Tuscaloosa, AL in March. Great! Great! event I must say. Had a handful of southeastern brewers there. Lazy Magnolia (Kiln, MS), Terrapin Beer Company (Athens, GA), Sweetwater Brewery (Atlanta, GA), Good People Brewing (Birmingham, AL), Back Forty Beer (Birmingham, AL), Highland Brewing Company (Asheville, NC), Abita (Abita Springs, LA) and Yazoo Brewing Company (Nashville TN).  It was limited to 200 people. So we bought our tickets and headed on over to Bama country. I got a chance to pick the brains of the brewers there and actually talk to them about their beer. The only beer I drank that night that I did not enjoy was Yazoo’s smoked porter. I think I will limit my smokiness to only meats. It tasted like my smoker as I am smoking some ribs or a pork butt. All their other beers, GREAT! This was my first beer event and now I am itching for more. I am planning on going to the Magic City Brewfest in June. That will be a busy couple weeks for me. Ahh well, I can handle it. 

So anyways, on to the home brew. The reason I chose this kit is because the ole lady really liked Yazoo’s Hefeweizen. I found a kit on Midwest Supplies and ordered it up. The target OG for this batch was suppose to be around 1.049 to 1.053. So I got my hydrometer out and measured it and it was sitting around 1.070 after I adjusted for temperature. Not that I was worried, this just means it will have higher alcohol content.