Last winter I entered a local homebrew competition put on by Short Finger Brewing. I decided I’d enter by brewing a style I’d never heard of, Wheat Wine, which I chose because I had quite a bit of wheat malt extract I wanted to use up and I figured I’d maybe win a prize since […]
“Whatever highly honorable motives they may have—to save money or to enjoy themselves, for example—the greatest motivation for homebrewers is the opportunity to experiment and to produce beer in all the glorious varieties in which it manifests itself.” -Michael Jackson (this MJ, not the other) in the preface to The Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian […]
Wow, has it really been two months since I posted?? Okay, so actually I’m not at all in shock about this because I was well aware of how long it had been. Soooooooo. Where was I? Remember that post a while back about finding the time? Well when I added a few extra commitments (like taking […]
Coffee is one food item that I really love and enjoy in spite of the fact that it is not, and never will be local. I recently received a bag of coffee sent by Parachute Coffee to review and I have to say that I was pretty impressed with it. I tend to shy away […]
After 10 days of fermentation I racked the Sappy K-Wee Heavy. (For non-brewing readers: racking involves siphoning the fermented beer from one vessel to another to get the beer off of the sediment, or lees, at the bottom of the vessel. It helps make to clarify the beer and in cases of longer fermentation it […]
Amber and Malty… “Amber and malty,” I thought to myself as visions, aromas, and flavors of a Wee Heavy clouded my mind. Lately this has been the style of beer that most appeals to me. It’s funny because for a long time—isn’t this true for most craft beer lovers—all I would buy was IPAs, the […]
Sap Season A couple weeks ago when the weather here briefly warmed up we chatted a bit with our neighbors about tapping a couple of their sugar maple trees. I had dreams. Not dreams of maple syrup, but of sap beer. They kindly agreed and so using taps (spiles as they are called—maybe you’ve read Catching […]