A little age isn’t a bad thing. Take a look at the smoked wheat after it had some extra time in the fridge to settle: And it’s not just the color that improved. The flavors really matured, blended, and mellowed.…
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Let Your Beer Grow Up
Posted in Brewing Tagged with: ale, beer, bottling, brewing, grains, home brewing, mash, racking cane, stout
Lemongrass Wheat Beer
New beer is on the way! Last weekend I made a batch of wheat ale and decided to go off-recipe and try my own thing. Yes, this is the part of the story where Uncle F#*k-Up makes an appearance. But…
Posted in Brewing Tagged with: beer, cardamom, child harbat, coriander, home brewing, lemongrass, mash, toca boca, wheat ale
Making Beer, Part Two
Once you’ve made beer, what do you do with the grains? If you run your own CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) you can use tanker trucks to deliver thousands of tons of spent grain mash to your metropolis of pigs…
Making Beer, Part One
It was bound to happen: making bread and drinking beer leads to making beer. They aren’t that different, bread and beer. One’s liquid and both are delicious. My wife got me a beer-making kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop. The flavor:…
Posted in Baking, Products Tagged with: beer, brewing, CH, home brewing, mash, wheat, wheat beer, wort
