Posts Tagged: Home Brewing
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 …
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 …
