Archive for the ‘ Brewing ’ Category
Wow, it has been a long time since I posted. No excuses really. Anyway, since the last post I have brewed a cream ale. The plan is that my friend Luke will also brew it (he did) and we would compare when I finally make it out to Oregon in July! The brew went really well [ READ MORE ]
Wow, words cannot express how lazy I am. I should have written this post 3 weeks ago (the beer is in secondary and Jake’s is ready to be dry-hopped). BATCH #1: Well, my wife has been trying to get me to brew the IPA again from last summer. It was really good (really good). Probably the best [ READ MORE ]
Sunday, we will be brewing two batches. 1. A Black IPA done by Jake 2. A remake of the IPA I brewed last summer. Since it uses Magnum hops, I present to you the Magnum IPA label! I tried to warp the text so that IPA looked like “PI” somehow, but I failed… I think the point came [ READ MORE ]
This is going to be a small post, mostly for posterity. A week ago Sunday I brewed the Hefeweizen. I had a few minor issues, but for the most part it went very well. I had some folks visit from the Prairie Homebrewing Companions to tell me where I was going wrong (actually I wasn’t doing [ READ MORE ]
I have decided to get fancy in my bottling… until I can talk the wife into letting me keg. For fun, here are the labels for my last brew and my next one. First off is the label for the Bourbon Barrel Porter that was bottled last week. I couldn’t think of anything clever that my [ READ MORE ]
Sunday was another fun brewing day, I purchased the bourbon barrel porter all grain kit from Northern Brewer. The day prior I made the yeast starter while enjoying an imperial stout homebrew that has finally come into it’s own. It started about an hour later than I was hoping because of a meeting, which meant we really [ READ MORE ]
After a vacation and some christmas, it was finally time we bottled the tripel. Ben decided to help a bit after work was done. The taste isn’t as punchy as I was hoping, but you could definitely taste that distinctive flavor. And on top of it, I estimate the alcohol to be somewhere in the [ READ MORE ]
So, I didn’t give my friends a lot of time to decide if they were going to brew or not. I decided Saturday morning that if I am going to get another brew in this year I’m going to have to do it tomorrow. We have a trip planned and Christmas to deal with so [ READ MORE ]
Ahh the Russian Imperial Stout. I have been reading up on the history of this wonderful brew and here is what I have found. In the year 1796 Thrale’s Brewery in London created a beer that was meant to satisfy the Czars of Russia. They had tastes for the finer things in life, the best champagne [ READ MORE ]
Last wednesday, we rocked a rauchbeer... here is what happened[ READ MORE ]