Hello. It is me again. I am the guy who wrote the recent article Popcorn Jalapeño Cream Ale on this blog. I am sure you have been impatiently waiting to find out how the beer turned out. When I last left you, the Popcorn Cream Ale was fermenting away jalapeño-less in a couple of Mr. [...]
Popcorn Jalapeño Cream Ale
Posted on March 28, 2012 by
I am a simple all-grain home-brewer. I don’t have a Brutus 10 Home-Brewing System. There is no fancy Blichmann top-tier brewing stand in my garage. I have no HERMS. I have no RIMS. There is no automation in my brewing process. My hot-liquor-tank is my brew pot which I pick up and empty manually into [...]
Stone Old Guardian Clone Recipe
Posted on December 14, 2011 by
Stone Brewing Company’s Old Guardian is an epic barleywine. This 12% abv monster is released every February. The recipe is given in the book The Craft of Stone Brewing, which I was given permission to reprint. So here it is. I’m going to brew it later this month and then give it a long sleep [...]
Brett Beer Update – White and Nasty
Posted on November 17, 2011 by
In early October I brewed a batch of beer with 100% brettanomyces that I got from Crooked Stave Brewery. For the first week I would go downstairs and look on in disappointment as there was zero airlock activity. Did I do something wrong? Was it a bad pitch? After 9 days I decided to pop [...]
Entering the World of Brett
Posted on October 5, 2011 by
A big day in my homebrewing career is approaching. I’ve played with bugs like lactobacillus, but have not yet experimented with brettanomyces. That will soon change. A couple of days ago Chris told us about his upcoming brett brew with peaches added. I received a pitch of the same Crooked Stave brett culture and will [...]
Brettanomyces Peach Beer
Posted on October 3, 2011 by
This is a guest post from Chris Washenberger, founder of The Denver Homebrew Club Thanks for having me over. I really appreciate the hospitality. Billy and I both received an aliquot, or as I prefer to say it, a splash of a dense Brettanomyces culture from Chad Yakobson, founder Crooked Stave brewery. He also wrote his dissertation [...]
Hamburg Vergällen Part 3
Posted on September 7, 2011 by
Well some time has past since posting Part 1 of my first Berliner Weisse and the results are in. I have to say that regardless of fact the beer missed a little on the style guidelines of not being tart enough, I just love this beer. Simple, clean and really a crowd favorite.
Pumpkin Beer – September Group Brew
Posted on September 2, 2011 by
It’s September, which for most of you means summer is winding down and cooler autumn days are ahead; here in Florida, summer doesn’t let up until Thanksgiving It also means it’s time for the next installment of the Homebrew Academy Group Brew. If this is your first Group Brews, this is where we pick a beer style [...]
Finding Inspiration
Posted on July 6, 2011 by
So you have finally decided to make the jump, time to start designing your own recipes. You do Pale Ale, maybe an India Pale Ale, and a couple of one-off beers. Eventually though, you might hit a rough patch. Maybe you stagnate, brewing the same beer or style over and over, or maybe you just [...]
