
I have been brewing quite a bit recently, just have the urge to make some great beer for this summer and want to get a good store ready! This beer is great year round but it is a big beer, its a beer I wanted to brew since the first time I drank Dead Guy. [...]

I love spring, there is an anticipation for the summer to come, beers to brew and gardens to grow! Now I am in a house, I have set myself a very ambitious plan to grow all my vegetables for the year or at minimum all that I can grow. With this in mind a few [...]

My apologies to everyone for the long gap between posts, its been an interesting time. I will give a short recap of the last two brewing competitions before going a bit more into the Big Island of Hawaii and the Kona Brewers Festival. 2010 Cowtown Yeast Wranglers Roundup There were 242 entires from all over [...]

Sour Beers are an area that I have wanted to experiement with for a long time. I didn’t really know where to start, I read all the material I could find, I listened to discussions on the subject but I didn’t really have much exposure to some of the great sour beers out there. So [...]

This beer It is a little strange, I made this beer a few weeks back at nearly the same date that I made it for the first time a year earlier. Whats strange about that, a chinook had arrived a few days earlier, giving the same sense of a false spring. I pretty much followed [...]

It was a long time ago that I sat in the biergarten of the Aecht Schlenkerla Brewery in Bamburg, but I still remember it. They had two beers on tap, their classic Rauchbier and a Smoked Weizen. Of course I went for the Rauchbier first, its what the brewery was known for and I wasn’t [...]

The third revision of my 10 Degree pale Lager. I brewed this recipe once before, but while moving houses I left it to do a diacetyl rest in the wrong place and….ruined the beer. So once again I am diving into Czech Pale Lagers. After tasting some fantastic lagers during my trip in CZ such [...]

Awhile back I made a Brown Porter, delicious beer. In the middle of moving, I assumed that I drank the keg and that was that. While brewing this Robust Porter I started reconditioning some of my kegs and low and behold I find a keg half full of beer which has been sitting beside a [...]

This beer isn’t a clone, because I did not have any simcoe hops. If I had the simcoe hops I could have called this post Green Flash West Coast IPA….Cloned. Anyways after listening to the Can you Brew it episode where they clone this beer I thought I should give it a go. I have [...]