Ooh, I like the title of this post, it sounds like a noir film. But really it’s all about very, very dark stout all bottled up. As I bottled this I had a taste and I think this is going…
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There’s Dark Beer and there’s DARK BEER
Holy crap! I’ve somehow made a black hole in the beer closet! This isn’t just any dark beer, it’s chocolate cream stout. Somewhere in that square fermenter is a bag of cocoa nibs, some cocoa-soaked rum, and vanilla extract. But…
Brewing Stockpile
Now I know how the squirrel feels. With the warmth of summer still hanging in the air like the last note of a concert before the applause, the days growing darker but the cold not yet drawing the heat away.…
Brew Daze
Apologies for the punny title, I was inspired by a liquor store near my office called, sadly, “Happy Daze Liquors”. It seems like a name that would’ve been funny during the Great Depression but now stirs up the tut-tutters. What’s…
Bubble, Bubble, Toil, and Guzzle
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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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.…
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