Home brewing is a hedonist’s dream. Whatever your taste, your required quantity, your preferred bottle shape, it’s all under your control, o puppetmaster. But homebrewing is a hell for the impatient. You think once fermenting is done that you can…
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Bubble, Bubble, Toil, and Guzzle
Posted in Brewing Tagged with: abbey ale, beer, brewing, english ale, fermenting, home brewing, honey rosemary saison, stout, yeast
Let Your Beer Grow Up
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.…
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
