Today I dragged Elizabeth out to Eden (she still wants to move there and plant a garden) for a workshop on cider and perry. I’m not sure if the host is a member of the Niagara Association of Homebrewers (or the Sultans of Swig), but there were definitely some NAH people there as well, and [...]
I finished up Basic Brewing Radio’s Green Brewing podcast this morning (I’d like to link you directly to it, but there doesn’t appear to be a permalink option). Most of the tips were things I already did, — reuse Starsan, use your immersion chiller water for ____, etc. — or couldn’t do — compost the [...]
The alt is in bottles, havign trouble carbonating because Buffalo was (until this weekend) stubbornly refusing to realize that it is May and should be warm
The American pale ale, my first all grain, is in secondary and I should probably bottle it early next week. This means I should find some bottles…
On Monday I made [...]
A correction from my last post: I’m now assuming that the taste I don’t like is from using raspberry flavoring, some of which was added directly to the fermented wort before bottling; it’s too much of a manufactured taste for my liking, and I think it gives the beer an unprofessional sweetness. Ah well, I’m [...]
It still has a bit of an “off” taste that I’m attributing to “extract twang,” meaning it won’t be a problem in future brews as I’ll be going partial mash using dry malt extract from now on. Additionally, there’s not much head retention, but you know what?
I brewed beer.
This past Saturday I opened another bottle of my raspberry wheat, which previously had been, um, sub standard. I was hoping it was just too green, and I must say I’m now damn happy with the results. It’s mellowed and blended, with very subtle raspberry flavor now. If I didn’t know that leaving it another [...]
On Saturday, I tried the raspberry wheat, and on Monday I tried the porter. It had only been a week, and I knew that they wouldn’t be done for at least another two weeks; I was trying them so that I could get an idea of how beer changes while bottle conditioning, so that I [...]
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