Posts Tagged ‘ beer ’
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Last wednesday, we rocked a rauchbeer... here is what happened[ READ MORE ]
The Imperial Stout is now fermenting at a break-neck pace. The co2 coming off of it smells good (not sour) and the kraesen is looking really scary good (or just scary depending on how you see it…) Now, I bought some extra yeast that is going to be coming to my door today with another all-grain [ 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 ]
Last Wednesday, Troy and I bottled the Scotch Ale. It smelled delicious, had a nice rich caramel color, and was pretty clear (due to the secondary fermentation). I think I will spend the extra time each brew cycle to transfer the wurt to a secondary fermenter as it really clears the beer up. It should [ READ MORE ]