Posts Tagged ‘ ale ’
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 ]
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 ]
So, my airlock blew out… here is the stout on my blow-off tube! [ READ MORE ]
Okay, no pictures like I promised. Jake needed to get back home so we needed to rush. It all went really well, only got 47 bottles out of it… which is actually more than I figured we would get. I do have another issue though. The stout has not started fermenting at any reasonable rate. I have [ READ MORE ]