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Backwards Distilling Strongman Gin 750 ml

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Having a À Tout Le Monde after packaging 8 Gallons of Flanders Red.

I planned this batch in anticipation of winning a prize in the San Diego County Fair’s exhibitor home brewing category.

I did not get any notice from the judges — however, they provided tasting notes that I considered for future brews. Flanders Red brewing is a time- and technique-intensive style that blending usually takes place at some point before bottling or kegging.

At this juncture, I used an eight-gallon bottling bucket to blend two different batches and added priming sugar. After a few weeks in the bottling conditioning, I sought a little more fizz in the glass for this batch and added the appropriate amount of corn sugar.

I didn't have enough Belgian bottles with corks, so I used a few half-liter and a couple of 1-liter, Lightning Brewery-labeled swing tops — the ones with the Lighting Brewing label pasted over a Stone Brewery growler. They actually handed these out at the brewery, a testament to the collaborative relationship between microbreweries in town. You won't find a bottle like that anywhere else.

This started off from a batch brewed in February and blended with an oak barrel aged one. It was a little darker and has a higher ABV with the two blended, at about 50/50 blend.

I am looking forward to my next batch of something else.

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