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 […]
Finally! It has taken soooooooooooooooooooo long! None of us has any memory that compares to this past Winter. Even the old timers seem a bit shell shocked. And yet Winter is quickly forgotten on a wonderful sunny Spring day when the kids in the neighborhood all emerge from their homes at the sound of other […]
In the summer we love our homemade ice cream, and try to utilize as many local ingredients as possible. I think the best all local ice cream was our Maple Walnut Ice Cream which was super delicious. In the winter though we don’t crave ice cream nearly the way we do when we’re sweating and […]
This is it, our first 100% local ice cream. Sweetened with maple syrup and honey, it features local cream, milk, butter, and eggs (quite a few eggs it turns out). The walnuts are farm-direct (back in May we visited Grimo Nuts) from less than 100 miles away in the Niagara On The Lake area. It is […]