Batch No. 11: Skip's Dogmonkey Reserve

Formula: Classic American Blonde + 1 lb Amber DME
Brew Date: February 26, 2011
ferment time: 21 days
Bottle Date: March 19, 2011
conditioning time: 4 weeks
Open Date: April 16, 2011
Original Gravity:: 1.036

Brewing process:
- Brought 8 cups water almost to a boil, added 1 lb Amber DME
- dissolved all and brought it to foam over
- reduced heat, boiled for 10 minutes
- at flameout, added 1 can Classic American Blonde HME
- added to cold water in keg, topped off to 8.5 Q with cold water and pitched 2 packets of standard Mr Beer yeast

Trying to brew a classic American beer (think Bud/Miller) for Dennis, my co-baseball coach. This batch should be ready around the start of baseball season.

The name is inspired by Dennis: He and his brothers take an annual fishing trip to the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan. There are equal parts fishing and beer drinking. At one point, his brother cast his lure into a tree, and rather than give up a $3 lure, he elected to climb the tree. Drunk. At night.

He came screaming back down the tree, convinced that he had seen some kind of crazy beast up there. "It had the face of a dog, but some kind of body like a monkey!"

Since then, any unidentified or unidentifiable beast has been called a "dogmonkey".

Batch No. 10: Anglers' Rest, take 2

I can't find the image of the label for batch #10. It looks just like this, except it says "Batch No. 10" on it.
Formula: English Nut Brown Ale HME + 1 lb Amber DME, Mellow Amber UME: Safeale 04 British Ale yeast
Brew Date: February 13, 2011
ferment time: 21 days
Bottle Date: March 6, 2011
conditioning time: 4 weeks
Open Date: April 3, 2011
Original Gravity:: 1.060

Brewing process:
- Brought 8 cups water almost to a boil, added 1 lb Amber DME
- dissolved all and brought it to foam over
- reduced heat, boiled for 10 minutes
- added Mellow Amber UME for additional 5 mins of boil
- at flameout, added 1 can English Nut Brown Ale HME
- added to cold water in keg, topped off to 8.5 Q with cold water and pitched 11.5 grams Safeale 04 British Ale yeast

Notes: Highest original gravity ever. This could be a big beer

Batch No. 9: Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo

Formula: Bewitched Red Ale HME + 1 lb Amber DME, Creamy Brown UME, 1/2 oz Fuggle Hops: Safeale 04 British Ale yeast
Brew Date: February 8, 2011
ferment time: 19 days
Bottle Date: February 27, 2011
conditioning time: 4 weeks
Open Date: March 27, 2011
Original Gravity:: 1.050

Brewing process:
- Brought 8 cups water almost to a boil, added 1 lb Amber DME
- dissolved all and brought it to foam over
- reduced heat, added 1/2 oz Fuggle hops for 25 minute boil
- added Creamy Brown UME for last 10 mins of boil
- at flameout, added 1 can Bewitched Red Ale HME
- added to cold water in keg, topped off to 8.5 Q with cold water and pitched 11.5 grams Safeale 04 British Ale yeast