Frozen to The Core

Just a quick update to inform all about the recent events in the life of the wonderful elixir I blogged about last Friday. This brew was shaping up to be a nice hoppy dark ale but a recent turn in the weather has resulted in it become an imperial double black IPA (I made that beer style up. I figured if BrewDog can get away with this stuff then so can I).
The beer was lovely when I took a few schooners straight from the cold conditioning cube last week. On Saturday when racking from the cube to a polypin only half of the beer drained out. The rest of the beer remained behind as ice - well clear ice intermittently dispersed with hop flowers. That's right, I have inadvertently freeze distilled the beer. It's now quite bitter and super hoppy - actually it's so hoppy it has gone from being clear to having a substantial hop oil haze! I estimate that I have about 8 or so litres in the polypin. It should serve up well when served through my beer engine. I'll probably attach a sparkler to mellow down its out of control hoppiness.

Also worth noting is that the weird and wacky world that constitutes the beer blogosphere has given rise to a fake me. That's right, someone has set up an open ID account with my name and profile photo and have been commenting over at Tandleman's blog. My pretender has been giving Barry a hard time so it's not all bad. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery after all. BTW - If you see a comment that you don't think is made by me, just click the name. My profile is open, my Pretender doesn't have a profile.