Getting into beer and homebrewing has allowed me to meet some pretty interesting people — homebrewers in particular are relatively strange folk for the most part. Dedicated to their craft, they embody a lot of the principles and attitudes I admire in people in general, and I’ve seen evidence of excellent homebrewers who are also [...]
I’ve been a long time gone from the blog but with this inaugural springtime post I hope to hop back on the wagon. We jammed a gig last night and I brought some of my first beer of spring, a Belgian IPA, which has been bumming me out as it seems to have “picked up [...]
Finally getting back around to homebrewing again was a very rewarding experience. I made a pact with myself to try and brew 12 beers in 2009, one every month. So far I’ve only brewed in January and April, and I’m considering brewing again this upcoming weekend to make up for February, and maybe doing two [...]
At the end of August I brewed a “Belgian Pale Ale,” which I called a “Sour IPA” at the time because I didn’t have anything else to call it. Since then, I’ve tried most of the easily obtainable examples of commercial beers which pair Belgian Yeast with big doses of American or Noble hops, [...]
There are a lot of attractive reasons to brew a Porter. Besides the obvious ones like how cool it would be to brew a beer people might actually want to drink more than one of, Porter gives you the chance to work on your maltiness while staying within the comfort zone of Ales, giving a [...]
After searching all over the place for some unpasteurized Apple Cider (in the American sense), I finally found some last week at the Union Square farmer’s market. Those in search can find it there on Mondays, though I suspect it won’t last much longer into the season, so hurry if you’re trying to get a [...]
Welcome back to Brew Logs, where I keep track of my experiments in homebrewing. Even though I brewed my third all-grain batch last Saturday, there were lot of firsts — first really high gravity ale (I was aiming for at least OG 1.1), first solo brew (none of the dudes could make it), and my [...]
My second brew session was on Friday, with Stinky assisting this time. The recipe I formulated was the result of an “opportunity brew” — basically I got the in on a great local source for Hops and Grain, and I based what I made on what they had. I’m firmly on the path of exploring [...]
An obsession with drinking beer can only take a person so far into completely understanding beer. At some point, most sufficiently nerdy brew-heads think about making their own beer, and in my case I’ve certainly been no exception. I decided to start brewing in a pretty unconventional way — jumping right into All-Grain. After gathering [...]
