Well, I finally felt that my beer was as flat as it was going to get in that fridge, I followed all the rules, I popped the top, and poured all the beer into a steel pan, and whisked it till it was all foamy, then I turn it on a slow slow low heat.. the foam came up again as it de-carbonated, which is what I needed because if you don’t do this, when you add your lye, it can foam up and be quite dangerous.. after it simmered down from 16 oz to my needed 12 oz for the recipe, I put it in the fridge to chill and then into the small freezer to get nice and frozen/slushy for use today..  worked perfectly, and boy they were not kidding about the beer really giving off a smell in regards to the fumes, I did it outside on the deck.

I did my oils and took some to the side, and beat in my egg, now I went with just one egg and it was well beaten and set it to the side..

Once my oils and my lye was within the ten degree mark, into the pot it went, now I have been warned that beer soap will set up fast, well I did something wrong here, it took forever to reach light trace.. opps, I am head of myself.. so I blended till smooth, then checked my temps again and drizzled in my egg/oil mix while stick blending it in (you have to watch your oils or you can cook the egg, instead blending it, some folks like to add egg white and some egg yolk,  and some both.. whatever, it was one jumbo rich farm egg)

And then I blended and blended and blended… an muttered again and again.. what happened to fast trace.. I was barely getting a soft light trace.. growl.. I poured a 3rd of the mix into a glass bowl with a bit of coco to turn it into a nice dark brown to match up with that lovely warm tan that the beer made.. and I blended an stirred and blended and stirred and finally I got trace, but not what I wanted to see..

Finally say that I had no hope of doing my planned two tone soap, I would need a proper trace to a medium trace to get that soap to the stage I could play with it like I had planned..

So I changed it up, I poured the dark brown soap back into one side of the main and then poured them into the loaf mold as a very free flowing two tone color blend.. and it was still so soft in trace that I could not even work the top and I gave it the stink eye.. and then I thought.. fine.. want to be BAD soap, I will force gel you. and flipped on the oven at the lowest setting just till it was warm, turned back off and put the light on, and popped that bad boy into the oven.. half an hour later I checked it and it was good for me to do the pretty top on it, retouched up the heat in the oven and put it back in.. I am going for a full out gel on this baby!

now I am sure that at least one of you has thought.. why call it the hair of the dog? Beer and egg, get it ..huh.. huh… or maybe that is just a family saying.. can’t wait to see how this one turns out.. a gel will change the texture a bit and its going to be a total surprise and I expect that each bar is going to look each own because of the blending..

Between the sugar in the beer, I am expecting a rich lather, the egg is to add a lot of richness to the soap as well..  will take photos of it once its been cut and curing..