Oooh, yeah! Got my hands on 18 lbs of honey and 10lbs of raspberries. What to do with them? Why, make mead, of course! The recipe is really simple. Add honey to 1 gallon of water, boil for 15 minutes while skimming off the white proteins that float to the surface. After 15 minutes kill …
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Nov 07
Rob’s Belgian Dubbel- Batch 37 bottled
Yesterday my boss Rob and I bottled up our 10 gallons of Belgian Dubbel. Final gravity came out to 1.018. Doing the math we have 1.086-1.018=.068 x 105= 7.14 x 1.25= 8.9% alcohol by volume. 8.9%!!! That’s the highest alcohol by volume for any beer I’ve done, not counting my mead. Tasting it I knew …
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Oct 23
Brewing a Belgian Dubbel- Batch 37
So, my amazingly cool boss, Rob Morrison, wanted to brew a Belgian Dubbel. No problem, I told him. Grabbed my clone recipe book, we flipped through it, and we decided on doing the clone of Ommegang Abbey Ale. Wanting to know what I’m brewing, I of course grabbed a bottle for Rob and I to …
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Oct 13
Liberty Pale Ale bottled- Batch 36
Last night (10/13/2010) I finally got around to bottling my Liberty Pale ale. I had run out of the regular sanitizer solution I use, so I resorted to a Papazian suggestion: Using bleach and then rinsing with hot water. Sampling the beer I was glad to not notice any bleach in it (thanks, Charlie!) I …
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Sep 26
Liberty Pale Ale redux- Batch 36
Friday afternoon I decided I was going to make some beer. So, I grabbed the kids, threw them in the van and headed off to Steinbarts. On the way, I began to ponder what beer I would make. Hmmm….. I was tempted to redo my standard hefeweizen (i.e. my half-a-weizen), but I began to think …
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Jul 03
Mead Bottled- Batch 35
I brewed this batch of mead at the beginning of January, and on today July 3rd I finally bottled it. The first thing I noticed was the aroma. A definite strong alcohol smell with the wonderful esters of honey. The yeast looked very strange at the bottom of the carboy, like some undersea silt with …
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Feb 20
Lucky Stout Bottled- Batch 36
Finally got around to bottling my Beamish clone. Bottling 10 gallons of beer is a task, let me tell you. To make things more difficult, I thought my bottle filler was broke, as it wouldn’t stop pouring. After a bit I got it working again, but it was still dripping slowly. Will have to replace …
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Feb 03
A New Pot and A Batch of Stout- Batch 36
My wife got me the best birthday present ever. She got me a 15 gallon brew pot. This thing is so stinking big I can stick both my boys in it and have room for veggies! (Note: I am NOT endorsing cannibalism! I’ll leave that to the British Navy. 😉 ) So, what do you …
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Jan 05
Mead – Batch 35
Ok, I’ve been negligent lately on my blog. So much so that I can’t remember the exact day I brewed by first batch of mead. I believe it was the 23rd of December, so I’ll go with that. Deciding to brave this journey, I began with a very basic mead recipe. 15 pounds of honey, …
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Dec 17
Unspoken Passion and Holiday Cheer Bottled
Last Friday (12/11) I was finally able to get to bottling my two batches of beer, my Holiday Cheer and my Unspoken Passion Imperial Stout (batches 33 and 34). I had originally planned on transferring the stout to a secondary to help it settle, but with my time limitations I just went straight to bottling. …
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