Starting from scratch… That’s what they call it when you start at ground zero, with little more than your guts and your drive to build something from next to nothing. And it does take guts, but it takes something more, it takes vision, a dream if you will. To an outsider, it isn’t apparent until…
I am always on the lookout for new or different brewing software. Probably because I don’t have the time or energy to figure it all out on my own. Anyway, not too long ago Mark over at Must Love Beer posted something about Brewtarget, an open source recipe formulation program. I have only recently taken…
I have been pondering the Cascadian ale off and on again lately. One of the things that has been a concern has been the dark color without the flavor additions. It would seem that if you brew in a “traditional” way you will end up with some dark bitterness and roasted qualities to the beer. …
I have been thinking lately of what could be a really cool brewery. You know with me it would have to be something a bit different than what everyone else is doing. I like what they are doing over at Wolvering Brewing with an all lager line up. Gah, I still need to head over…
I transfered the Session Bitters earlier today. It will definately be ready for Session Day on April 7th. Looking at the beer as it is right now, it is a touch darker than I was anticipating. It went a step past deep gold to more of a reddish gold. The flavor is pretty good, though…
As the media train continues to plow forward, I am sure we all know by now that Bell’s Oberron is available again. For the past few days we have heard nothing but raves of its greatness and anything else the media circus can throw in. But then I ran across this article earlier today. I…
Either its a slow news day and I don’t have anything else to talk about or I really haven’t spoken of how I set this up before. Looking through my brewing pics I noticed I didn’t have any pics of the work I did to set up my Blichmann Beer Gun. As you can see…
We all like to think that there is a time in our life when it all makes sense. Maybe it’s just me…Have you ever felt that? That everyone else around you has it all together and they know exactly what is going on. I will say that I have spent a good portion of my…
I have seen a few times recently where some have been irate (in writing) about beertinis or beer cocktails. This baffles me. I mean seriously, did someone place one of these concoctions in your hand and force you to drink it? When you really think about it, there are brewers already doing similar things but…
There are a few more kinks to work out on the new brewing system setup but today it worked quite well anyway. I ended up at a SG of 1.044 quite within where I wanted to be. With all the playing around with the system I have been doing lately this is the first to be…
