Posts Tagged ‘ jake ’
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]