★ Homebrewing: The Brett Blueberry Saison Experiment
Today, I brewed another Saison. The “experimental saison” category in my home brewing continues. Honestly, I’ve yet to…
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★ Beer Haul: Don’t EVER challenge a beer geek in Michigan to send you “decent local beer”
71 pounds of awesome arrived at my house today at random. I think it’s appropriate to return the…
★ Homebrewing: Surly Furious Clone
Today, I brewed a clone of Surly Furious. It’s actually an all-grain kit from Midwest Supplies. I like…
★ Homebrewing: Sampling my Bourbon Oaked Russian Imperial Stout
My first attempt at a stout which received a coffee infusion came out great. It was so popular…
★ Beer Haul: January ’13
This is one of the smallest beer hauls posted so far. I didn’t do any trading this month…
★ Cellaring: New Home Cellar Setup
I’ve read and researched a lot more than I’ve written on this blog about cellaring. Unlike wine, beer…
★ Cellaring: A Proper Cellar (Teaser)
The unpacking of my beer is going very well. Better photos to come once things are finished.
★ New House! New Brews!
My month away from beer has been only slightly successful. Hill Farmstead Mary and Life without Principle #2…
★ Homebrewing: My 2nd attempt at aging on oak
That “Smoked Chocolate Porter” extract beer I brewed in June which tasted like total crap at the time…
★ Homebrewing: My Strawberry-Rhubarb Berliner Weisse
In August, I found a yeast strain on discount at the home-brew store as it was nearly expired.…
★ Beer Haul: December ’12
I started doing these beer hauls in March of 2012. It has been a remarkable journey and a…
★ Homebrewing: Racking some recent beers to kegs and some initial thoughts
A quick end of year update on home brewing I began this journey in May and have brewed…
★ Beer Haul: Lambic Baskets
An awesome member of RateBeer put up some Lambic baskets for sale. This was after he posted a…
★ Events: My Girlfriend’s Birthday Beer Lineup
I spent a lot of effort this year grabbing some special beers for Elizabeth. Her 27th birthday was…
★ Homebrewing: Sampling my latest batches now that fermentation has slowed / stopped
Tonight, I took some samples of the batches of beer brewed 2 weeks ago. These will all spend…
★ Beer Haul: November ’12
November was a busy month. I slaughtered my hogs and chickens, did a harvest of the garden, fought…
★ Homebrewing: My 5 Gallon Carboy split in half overnight
This was a bummer to wake up to this morning. 5 gallons of wort was on the floor.…
★ Homebrewing: Lovely, lively full fermenters
I’m actually brewing ONE more batch of beer tomorrow which will equal 5 total beers fermenting with 4…
★ Homebrewing: My first All-Grain Stout
The beauty of an oily and viscous wort coming out of the mash-tun and into the brew kettle…
★ Homebrewing: What is brewing next?
It was back in early-September that I wrote about home brewing another batch of various beers. Those beers…