New Brew

Today was brew day for Reservoir Brewing's newest brew, Fireside Stout. This brew is uses the Northern Brewer Sweet Stout kit as the base with 10 ounces of chocolate thrown in for good measure. I am planning on racking it onto six pounds of raspberry puree in secondary. The OG came out to 1.052, higher than the designed 1.042 of the kit, but I think it was due to the sugar in the four ounces of bittersweet baking chocolate I used in the boil.

As of a couple of hours after pitching, I am still waiting on fermentation to begin, but I think it was delayed due to a significantly cool wort temperature (58-62F).

I will keep updates coming on the Fireside as it progress. Next week is bottling day for the Four Lane DIPA!