Posts Tagged ‘ Brewing ’
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Wow, that went textbook! Sorry, I don’t have pictures of the steps this time… Jeremy and I spent our extra time wiring the garage for cat-5 so we could watch the football on a mythtv frontend (my laptop). Next brew I think i’m actually going to run the wire nicely (not from my basement window to [ READ MORE ]
The scotch ale that Troy and I (and Jeremy) brewed has been chilling in my basement crawl space (perfect 65F tempature) for a week and a half now. I’ve been checking on it like I do my own child – though I will admit I love the beer less. This weekend I will be transferring [ READ MORE ]
Labor Day Jake and I brewed this all-grain kit from www.northernbrewer.com Sunday night Jake made a yeast starter to try to get the cell count up. By 11AM when we were going to start brewing it was kicking some butt and bubbling like crazy. 11AM: Disinfected our supplies. Brought 2.6 Gallons of water up to 168*F Dumped the grain [ READ MORE ]