Had a friend and co-worker make this statement about my Oatmeal Stout: Probably some of the best stuff I’ve had in quite a while. I would buy that brand of oatmeal all day long! Seriously, it was right up my alley in so many ways…in fact…do you have enough stored to fill a growler or …
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Apr 15
Batch 10- Flemmish Brown
I purchased two beer kits a while back for making a Belgian style Old Flemmish Brown ale, and got around to brewing it on Sunday. Made some Belgian candy sugar to add to it, and given that I don’t have a scale yet to measure the amount to put in, I overestimated and put too …
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Mar 24
Funny Video
My friend Jared put up a hilarious YouTube video here. For those of you too lazy to follow the link, I’ll put it below: http://www.youtube.com/v/ATBl4qH9I54&hl=en
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Mar 24
Beer Failures
I’ve brewed 9 batches of beer since I began this brewing adventure back in Christmas, and it has been a learning process. And, as most people will attest to, no learning is complete without some failure. My second batch was my first attempt at oatmeal stout, and despite the fun we had brewing it, we …
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Mar 23
Oatmeal Stout- Whole Grain Goodness
I brewed batch 9 yesterday, some Oatmeal Stout. I used Papazian’s mini-mash recipe from The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. Now, I purchased the grains a few weeks ago and had them crushed when I purchased them so I wouldn’t have to try to do it myself. Of course, no one told me to brew them …
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Mar 17
What The Heck Did I Just Brew?
Last night I bottled up my so called “American Style” hefeweizen. It had been fermenting for 14 days by the time I had bottled it. And, by fermenting for 14 days, I don’t mean it was just sitting there for 14 days waiting to be bottled. I mean it was actively fermenting for 14 days. …
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Mar 07
Batch 8 Almost Ready to Bottle
Made an American style hefeweisen last week. Still has active fermentation going on. It was my first mini-mash attempt. I used a couple pounds of grains, put them in a grain bag and held them at 130 degrees for 30 minutes. Then I slowly brought the temp up to 155. After 10-15 minutes there I …
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Mar 07
Erica Rocks!
An old high school classmate of mine just sent me four pounds of hops for free. You so rock, Erica!
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Feb 07
Batch 6 and 7 Made
Just made a traditional bitter (whatever that means) and an IPA. I totally cheated, used the can-o-extract. But I want easy to make, quick, drinkable beer. So those were good options. Also got ingredients for an American hefeweisen. They had ingredients for a pilsner, which looked surprisingly like the last beer I bottled. Yummy!
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Feb 06
Batch 4 and 5 bottled
Well, with all the chaos in the house (me being sick last week, the wife having contractions and sending us into the hospital, and my son barfing all night), I was able to get some bottling done in the midst of this. Batch number 5 was the weird b@$tard brew that I made by throwing …
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