Posts Tagged: Home Brewing
Book Review: Brewing Better Beer, Gordon Strong
Posted by on Monday, May 23, 2011 in - 8 comments
This came in the mail last week and I got a chance this long weekend to look it over. Gordon Strong is a very accomplished home brewer and judge so I was interested in reading what he admits is a very personal take on making your own beer at a high level of skill. • As you know, I am a bad … read more »
Session 41: What About The Homebrewers Anyway?
Posted by on Saturday, July 3, 2010 in - 4 comments
I have a hard time with this month's topic for The Session. Not because I have no experience with home brewing but because I assume everyone involved with beer has had a hand in it. It's like I assume everyone who went to college went to high school first. • That being said, I am a bad brewer. I …
Session 36: How Cask Ale Did Not Change My Life
Posted by on Friday, February 5, 2010 in - leave a comment
Tom Cizauskas of Yours For Good Fermentables is running this month's edition of The Session. He is doing such a good job he has posted somewhere between four and 27 different posts on the subject just on his own site. His question for this month is broad, very open ended: • I'd like to return to …
Allsopp's Arctic Ale And Arctic Homebrew In 1852
Posted by on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 in - 3 comments
There is a bit of beery backroom buzz about plans to make a movie about the Allsopp's Arctic Ale, the beer which accompanied a British navy expedition in the Canadian high Arctic in the mid-eighteenth century. The film maker's website is not up yet but there is a Facebook page which reports …
"...You Have To Make Sure It Is Of A Demonstrable Quality...'
Posted by on Monday, October 26, 2009 in - 5 comments
What an odd statement. Given that the use of the word "quality" is in itself merely a promise of characteristic and not necessarily a good one, it looks like the sort of thing that one might expect from a PR firm working with faceless MegaCo. But it seems to be the position of CAMRA... if this …
Back To The Future Of Homebrewing In Brooklyn
Posted by on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 in - 1 comment
Equipment? We don't need no secondary! Beer styles?? We don't need no stinking beer styles!! We have recipes with names like Apple Crisp Ale and Grapefruit Honey Ale. • It's like rereading the first edition of Papazian's The Joy of Homebrewing with all its freaky illustrations and tripped out …
Vermont: Craft Brewer Greg Noonan Passes Away
Posted by on Monday, October 12, 2009 in - 6 comments
Very sad news this morning of the passing of Greg Noonan, founder of the Vermont Pub and Brewery as well as author of a number of important books on brewing. There is a thread of condolences over at BeerAdvocate with many sharing their memories of him. • I never met Greg but read through his …
Remember: It's Not Gone Bad - It's Just Belgian!
Posted by on Sunday, June 7, 2009 in - 1 comment
When Stan was here last year, I told him I made a home brew with star anise. He winced and asked me how much and when I said how much he winced again. I didn't bother sharing it which was too bad as a couple of bottles that sat for a few months more really weren't that bad, gaining a nice creamy …
Home Brewing: Drinking Green Beer That Is Brown
Posted by on Thursday, November 27, 2008 in - 5 comments
One of my favorite things is the green beer stage. After the liquor becomes wort but before it becomes bright it is green. Because I am a bad brewer, I never know how it will turn out in the end but when it is green - before the infections can set in, before the carbonation can fail - it tastes …
Day 9: A Few Updates On A Crazy Beer Filled Monday
Posted by on Monday, November 24, 2008 in - 6 comments
The contest is on! The contest is on! Entries are pouring on but there has been a bunch of other stuff keeping me from posting a semi-gallery so far. It is really a hemi-semi-demi-gallery so far but you get the point. Here is some stuff I have notice over the last few days: • I brewed yesterday …
