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★ Homebrewing: Won best beer @ my company home-brew competition
I haven’t been very happy with my most recent brews but I do have 4 kegs of stuff that is still just aging and 2 carboys that are just wild ales and a string of 1 liter force carbed swing-tops of sour beers that are aging. I decided to enter the company home-brew competition in …
★ Homebrewing: Kegerator Parts List, 2014 Build
One of my friends and faithful blog readers, Matt mentioned that my post last year about building the new kegerator was inspiring enough that he wants to take it up as a Spring project but aside from listing a couple of things, I didn’t really list all of the parts needed. Indeed, that is …
★ Homebrewing: Transferring Sours to Kegs
I brewed 6 wild ales last year and now that 4 kegs are freed up, I decided to transfer some out of the carboy and into kegs. I like conditioning kegs without force-carbonation so letting the wild yeast continue to work for the next few months creates a carbonation similar to bottle conditioned wild ales …
★ New Kegerator Build Complete
Filed under home-brew as it’s loosely home-brew related It was in 2012 that I drove down to Southern NH and picked up a used kegerator from a guy on Craigslist. It was an old fridge that used way more electricity than it should have and the setup wasn’t ideal for a strict keg-only setup since it was a …
★ Homebrewing: If you like Brett ales, you have to brew a Brett IPA!
Hill Farmstead’s Wheat is the New Hops & Crooked Stave’s Hop Savant are two excellent examples of what happens when you brew a double IPA then ferment with Brettanomyces. Most home brewers brew IPAs more than any other style so you can take your favorite recipe and simply switch ale yeast for Brett. Really easy. …
★ Homebrew: Adjuncts and Stuff
I’m pretty busy this week so I snapped this photo before tossing these into 2 of my carboys. I brewed Tart of Darkness Clone and Consecration Clone in August/September. They are both tasting really good and that means it’s time to add in these little things. The Tart of Darkness gets 2 ounces of Bourbon …
★ Homebrewing: Carboy transit initiated!
I don’t think you’re supposed to aerate finished beer but oh well! 2 up front and 6 in the back. Going to have these in my car today covered up until I go to the new place. It’s always amazing how much space the tiny Golf has for transporting this sort of stuff. On …
★ Cellaring: Transporting Wilds & Lambic in bulk
I’m not asking if this is okay because I really have no choice but to take on this activity. I’m moving to a new house this week and I’m boxing up about 200 Lambic, 8 carboys, 8 kegs, 75 bottles of bourbon, wine, mead and iced wine and then another 150 or so bottles of …
★ Homebrew: Yeast Pellicles
Went downstairs to snap some shots of a few carboys. Really happy with how these came out.