This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by A World of Brews) is about breaking away from the norm: Most home brewers I know and read about use the standard 2 row base malt and the 3 big C’s for the hops and maybe a nice 1056 or 05 for the yeast. In my book that [...]

This past Saturday, I threw a bridal shower for my future sister-in-law, Melissa. Wait!! Don’t click away from the page yet! BEER! We brewed BEER for it! This post is about BEER and FOOD, not wedding dresses and gift registries!! *ahem* Anyway. Melissa is beer- and food-crazed, much like myself (check out her and my [...]

No longer the elusive Belgian mystery, sour beer is beginning to make its way into mainstream American beer culture. From light, luscious tartness to pucker-inducing acidity, sour beer is a fascinating genre that is altogether different from other beer styles. There are six subcategories of Sour Ale in the BJCP Guidelines — Berliner Weisse, Flanders [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Brew Dudes) is all about brewing in the summer: How do you beat the heat of summer time brewing? From brew house conditions to managing fermentation temperatures, what do you do differently to continue to brew quality beers? Tim and I do all our brewing outside in our [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Ted’s Homebrew Journal) is “Brewday Joy & Stress”: a. What part of the your brewday brings you the most JOY? b. What part particularly brings out a good deal of STRESS? Fortunately, our brewday involves a heck of a lot more joy than stress! Especially now that we’ve [...]

In case you haven’t heard, Greg Koch of Stone Brewing Co. created a majorly kick-ass video called “I Am A Craft Brewer.” The description from the website: “I Am A Craft Brewer” is a collaborative video representing the camaraderie, character and integrity of the American Craft Brewing movement. Created by Greg Koch, CEO of the [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Northern Table) is: My topic is all about liquor… and how you use it in your brewing! Have you infused a beer with liquor before either to blend with the flavour (port infused stout as an example)? Have you had a good example of this? Do you think [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by HomeBrewBeer.net) is “Embrace Your Spring Fever”: How will you grow or change as a homebrewer this Spring? How will you embrace your Spring fever and channel it toward your homebrewing endeavors? Ahhh, spring… I’m not sure if I’ve ever expressed my hatred for winter in my blog. The [...]