New Brew

Here's the picture we plan on using for our most recent brew. Our friend Josh took this picture in Glacier Nat'l Park last summer. We liked it so much we named our latest beer, "Curious Goat," after it. It's a nice smooth, very malty dopple-boch. Boch just so happens to mean goat. So, we thought the name was fitting.

Here's a finished version of one of our labels. Chocolate Legs was in my opinion the best beer we've concocted. We combined a dark stout with home-brewed espresso and bittersweet dark chocolate. It turned out way better than we imagined. We just didn't have the carbonation figured out yet, and it was a little puny in the alcohol content arena.

We call our little home brewery Muddy Boots Brewing Co. We named it after our fondness for hiking, and the tendency to get off of the trail with very muddy boots. After a long day on the trail, it's really nice to enjoy a cold brewsky. Should we ever go anywhere with this commercially, we'll definitely cater to hikers and outdoor enthusiasts.

Our brews:

• Chocolate Legs - Chocolate Espresso Stout
• Drunkin' Punkin' - Spiced Pumpkin Wheat Beer: We created this one for Halloween. It's so bad that I refuse to drink it. I've renamed it Satan's Piss Pot. From what I understand, beers that include spices need considerable aging before being fit for consumption. So, we're giving it a little more time.
• Appleknocker Apfelwein: Not a beer, but a nice apple wine. This one is strong. It'll lay you out.
• Curios Goat - Dopple-Boch: This is our first lager. The others were ales. It's very smooth. It's also the first time we exclusively used malt as the fermentable sugar. In the other brews, we added corn sugar (dextrose) in addition to the malt. Supposedly, an all-malt beer is far superior to beers using dextrose. I can't really notice the difference, but I like this beer.