Happy Halloween!

Royal Legendary Belgian Ale

This month has been a quiet one on the ol' blog -- reason being that it has been a quiet one beer wise for me. There is one thing, though, that is worth mentioning. Julie and I took a small three day Royal Caribbean cruise with some friends. We expected the beer selection to be slim pickin's on the boat. However, that was not necessarily the case. Royal Caribbean has their own beer brewed in Belgium just for their cruise line, called Royal Legendary Belgian Ale. It was quite good.

I looked it up when we got home and found this review, claiming that it was something on the order of a Belgian Wit. It was not. In fact, it was more like a Belgian Pale Ale.

We were all pretty excited about the beer and drank our fair share on the boat. It simply made the cruise that much more interesting.

Quick Tip: Change Out Those Hoses

Let's face it. Homebrewing involves a lot of tubes and hoses, mostly to siphon beer from one container to another. They are used to rack from boil kettle to carboy, carboy to carboy, carboy to keg, keg to glass, and so on. These hoses need to be clean and sanitary. Therein is the problem. You cannot scrub out a vinyl hose without fear of scratching it up, creating areas where bacteria can deposit. As a result, changing out the hoses often is the best way to prevent infections. Hoses are cheap, so changing them out should not be a big cost issue.