Posts Tagged: Home Brewing
Head-To-Head: Two Blogs, Two India Pale Ales
Posted by on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 in - 6 comments
...Travis to the left, MNB to the right... • There has been a battle over beer out there, citizens. A battle between blue and grey, north and south, brewer and brewer. And, as is so often the case, it is the Canadian who is asked to step in an clear things up. • Here is what I know about the …
Travis Tries Ted's Nut Brown Ale
Posted by on Saturday, March 8, 2008 in - 1 comment
As a home brew blogger, I get a lot of comments and do a lot of commenting on other people's blogs (you down with OPB?). One of the blogs that I frequent is Ted's Brews. Ted is a home brewer out of the Chicago area that is extremely thorough and meticulous with his documentation and his brewing as …
Craft Beer And Substantial Equivalence
Posted by on Saturday, March 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
Market Saturation and Substantial Equivalence Illustrated • The tough thing about the hop and malt price bump is that it comes at a time of US consumer uncertainty. Something of a double whammy. Add to this the idea that I have come across recently to express something I have thought about for …
A Bad Brewer Asks: "What The Heck Is That I Made??"
Posted by on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 in - 14 comments
I am a bad brewer. I think it's important to brew to make sure you have a hand on the paddle, a sense of what yeast might actually expect from you. That being said, though people have admired my beer greatly, I know the truth. I'm a bad brewer. It has a lot to do with the effort I put in compared …
Further Adventures In Hefeweizening
Posted by on Monday, June 18, 2007 in - 11 comments
Not so much about the hefe as making the hefe. Maybe this is something everyone does and you are all holding out but if you take the brew kettle, stick the primary carboy into it and put both into the laundry sink and run cold water into the kettle, you seem to have a mechanism for quick cooling …
Respect Your Hefeweizen
Posted by on Monday, June 18, 2007 in - 9 comments
Like Stonch, I have been adding to my relationship with beer through running a nano-brewery in the kitchen. While I have no beer cam (yet), it's great fun as brewing gets you close to the ingredients and give you some insights into what craft brewers are doing and doing for you. • So I ordered a …
My Wee Experimental Brewery
Posted by on Monday, February 19, 2007 in - 3 comments
Not quite this much yeast... • I was going to call this another project but I think that might be a wee bit too much so "My Experimental Brewery" (or MEB) will have to do. I have home brewed in two periods of my life. In 1987 I visited the Pitfield Beer Shop that Knut visited in 2005 but which …
My Best Session Keg
Posted by on Sunday, February 11, 2007 in - 1 comment
Adam of the Brew Lounge recently asked me for a session beer recipe of mine. I was only a part mash brewer back then and haven't brewed in four years. This one was what I came up with on 5 January 2002 and was inspiringly named Batch #29: • “1/4 lb flaked barley • 1/4 lb Vienna malt • 3/4 lb …
Why Do You Homebrew?
Posted by on Monday, July 10, 2006 in - 15 comments
I'm working on a series of articles on popular beer culture (mainly reactions to Ken Wells's book Travels with Barley which was reviewed by Alan a while back) that will appear on The Spirit World over the next few weeks. My audience over there is mainly mixed drink people; the sort of folks who …
Festival Fiasco and the Great Long Island Beer Tour
Posted by on Friday, May 19, 2006 in - 1 comment
Two weeks ago in this space I mentioned that I would be attending the Long Island Beer Festival and gave you a preview of some of the attractions of the festival. In addition to great beers from New York, the other mid-Atlanic states, and from the rest of the world, Garrett Oliver and Phil …
