Beer Diary, It’s days like these I’m glad I have beer to keep me warm.
Will the weather just figure out what season it is and where we are located in the world? I mean, really? For a while it was like spring, then it was like living on frozen arctic tundra, which I guess...
View ArticleBeer Diary, The black IPA is done and turned out amaaaazing.
Oh dear. “Hopstache” is here folks. Did I mention that it is insanely tasty? It actually tastes like a black coffee IPA, very roasty with a nice bitter hop finish. I would definitely make this beer...
View ArticleHow-to: Build your own custom keg system
I guess this is a “how-to” kind of week. The best kind of how-to’s: Those that involve beer! But first, I’m excited to say our Chai Latte Milk Stout is DONE and pouring beautifully out of our very own...
View ArticleIt’s Electric!
Homebrewers, take note. Today’s Beer Diary is all about our experience brewing a new set of beers (“RyePA Two Ways”) on the Electric Brewery. It is as awesome as it sounds. Boogie woogie woogie. Now...
View ArticleA Tale of Two RyePA’s
We’ve been very busy little homebrewers of late, and it feels so right. I’ve been talking a lot about these RyePA (Rye IPA) beers we brewed on our friend Sean’s Electric Brewery system, remember that...
View ArticleAdventures in Home-brewed Fruit Beers
With temps well into the eighties (and even nineties by us!), I think it’s safe to say it’s summer: the season for refreshing fruit beer! Of course, fruit beers can be enjoyed year round, but I find...
View ArticleHow to make Pumpkin “Barleywine”
Technically, it is still summer. But based on the beer shelves full of pumpkin beers, breweries would have us believe fall came weeks ago. Love it or hate it, pumpkin beer is here. It seems from...
View ArticleFunky, Farmhouse Saison
Saison is one of those wonderfully complex beers that puts even the most delicious white wines to shame. The fruity, somewhat spicy aroma, the crisp dry palate with even more fruit and spice and...
View ArticleThe making of Amour, a French Saison (and Saider!)
I haven’t been talking much about our homebrew adventures of late, but that’s not for lack of activity, just standard life craziness. So let’s update! All the way back in November I was asked to...
View Article“The Bearded Lady,” Award winning blackberry stout recipe
As some of you already know, we got some very exciting news last weekend – our blackberry Belgian stout, “The Bearded Lady” won a GOLD MEDAL in the “All American Homebrew Competition,” a BJCP...
View Article“Emerald,” Dry Irish Stout Recipe
Despite all the crazy homebrew recipes I tell you about, I’ve actually been making an effort over the last year to come back to basics a bit. This stout recipe is a delicious outcome of that goal:...
View ArticleSlaapdronken, a Chamomile Tripel
Hubs and I have had so little time to brew lately it is embarrassing. We’ve been traveling, juggling crazy schedules, and I’ve been running around helping with private beer tastings, teaching my Beer...
View ArticleMeadventures: Making basic honey wine
Scientists believe that the first alcoholic beverage ever made was a combination of honey, and perhaps grains, that wild yeast and bacteria fermented spontaneously. Someone along the way decided to...
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