2013 is coming to a close and I decided to brew several batches of "pale ales" with my saison blend that showcased either hops or the yeasts...or the combination I suppose. This is not the hoppiest beer in that series but this is a nice "pale ale" of sorts that utilizes one of my favorite … Continue reading Recipe #5: Snow Day IPA w/Nelson hops (Batch #2013.22)
This isn't EXACTLY a post related directly to beer but I consider it beer-adjacent in my interests. I love beer, bourbon, bourbon barrel aged beers, I also love BBQ. For a long time I've had a fantasy of converting a used bourbon barrel into a meat smoker. An opportunity presented itself in the form of … Continue reading DIY: Building a Bourbon Barrel Meat Smoker
When traveling anywhere with my family, on business, or alone, I always try to go to as many breweries as possible. It is a way that I try to support small local businesses. Driving almost anywhere in the country, you are sure to pass by a brewery or end up in an area with a … Continue reading Beer Tourism #1: Southwestern Florida
I wanted to take this year-end opportunity, near the perihelion where the Earth is the closest to the sun, to talk about my brewing and blog goals for the upcoming year. I have two big brewing experiments coming up in 2014. The first experiment is focused on different yeasts. I am currently fermenting a test … Continue reading Happy Winter Apsis! Brewing Goals for 2014.
I've made several batches of beer with a blend of yeast strains from a few previous batches. The blend consists of Saison Dupont yeast, Brettanomyces claussenii and Brettanomyces bruxellensis Trois. The dominant organism, by far, in the mixture is the Dupont strain (see Recipe #1, Recipe #2, and Recipe #3 for examples). This has become … Continue reading Recipe #4: Belma Saison High Temp (Batch #2013.20)
I love IPAs. By far my favorite style of beer, although I like almost all styles of beer. I have decided to use some different base malts to increase my understanding of different kinds of malt and the effect they have on the beer. This time I switched out the standard 2-row barley for Vienna … Continue reading Recipe #3: Cascade and Amarillo Rye IPA (Batch #2013.21)
The second recipe in this blog is basically a continuation of the first recipe, in that it used the yeast cake from the Citra Saison. This is a “Belgian IPA”…which, in my opinion, is an odd style distinction. It seems to me that breweries will call any hoppy ale, regardless of malt bill or yeast used … Continue reading Recipe #2: Chinook Belgian IPA (Batch #2013.19)
This is the first recipe I am posting on this blog even though, according to my notes, this is around the 150th batch of beer I've brewed. Recipes will be posted as they are brewed from now on. About sixth months ago, I started making really simple wort using a few different base grains as … Continue reading Recipe #1 – Citra Saison (Batch #2013.18)
Fantome carved into a pumpkin.
Hello world of beer blogs, What you have found here is yet another beer blog from a beer enthusiast and homebrewer. It is hard to know where one fits in with the hundreds of popular beer blogs on the Internet - blogs that cover nearly every style of beer, region of the country, and every … Continue reading An Introduction to a new beer blog (yes, another one)
A Ph.D. in Beer - A Study of Beer and Fermentation Science 