Posts Tagged: Home Brewing
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 …
Perfect Brewing Dot Com
Posted by on Sunday, January 16, 2005 in - leave a comment
I received an email from Jim Curtis of Chicago who writes: • “Hey beerbloggers, • My name is Jim Curtis and I'm a homebrewer from the west suburbs of Chicago. I have a general beer and brewpub info site at www.beer100.com. I have just quit my government job and opened a brewing shop in …
Homebrewing In Singapore In The News
Posted by on Sunday, December 19, 2004 in - 5 comments
Homebrewing has received a welcome endorsement from an unlikely source. In its Sunday editorial, Singapore's state-controlled Straits Times newspaper (reg' req') has praised homebrewing as a hobby - noting that drinking at home may have an added advantage in reducing rates of drunk driving …
Homebrewing in Singapore
Posted by on Saturday, December 11, 2004 in - 7 comments
The recent • legalization of home brewing by Singapore authorities has hit the • shopping malls. Previously, prospective home-brewers needed to turn to on-line supplier I-brew. However, yesterday at Carrefour, I was pleased to see this:
