Kegging and Brewing

Kegtastic!

To the right you'll see a picture of the very first L-Town Brewing keg being filled up with some delicious CCWA NWPA.  We filled the keg up two weeks ago (the same night we brewed the St. Helens Stout).  The full keg went from the LTB Brewhaus over to the LTB Dogghaus and into the kegerator where it chilled for the evening.  The next day we put CO2 to the keg and force carbed it at 30 psi for 48 hours.  After the force carbing was complete we bled the excess air out of the tank and set the regulator to 10 psi.  After sitting at 10 psi for five or six hours the first LTB beer was poured and consumed.  And it was amazing.  Not quite an exact clone of Red Chair NWPA but just as good.  I was seriously impressed with how well it turned out.  And just to be sure that the first pint wasn't a fluke I decided to try two more. 

And below you'll see another picture of the St. Helens Stout brewing away.  This stuff looked like motor oil in the brew kettle.  We've got a couple of vanilla beans from Madagascar that we'll be throwing in the secondary fermenter.  I'm really looking forward to this being done and ready to drink.  It should be nothing short of mind-blowing.

Black Gold