Oatmeal Stout (19L) ESB (19L) Hoppy Wheat Comparison (Yeast Blend of Windsor/WB-06/T-56 and Nottingham) (38L) Base Malt Comparison Pilsners (38L) Calamity Grain (38L) Lambic-inspired (57L) Cream Ale (19L) NEIPA (Satanic Haze) *worst beer I’ve ever made (19L) Oatmeal Porter (19L) Qing Dao Hua Pils (19L) Session IPA (19L) NEIPA Milkshake […]
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A simple but effective Blond ale recipe. Not all my beer names have a story behind them but this one does. Pete’s a friend of mine that has spent many-an-hour with a chainsaw in hand. He used to build log homes in the mountains of Colorado. Out in the log […]
I’ve wanted to brew a hua jiao saison for a while now. My brewing friend here told me it was a bad idea. He tried once and failed. His beer came out overwhelmed by the additions he made. Hua Jiao (花椒) or Sichuan pepper is a spice famously used in […]
This is the recipe reiteration of the original Calamity Grain Stout as featured on episode 69 “Sunshine, Hop Dreams and Disastrous Days” on the Experimental Brewing Podcast. Give it a listen or read the full story here. Last week I got together with my good buddy Brian to brew yet […]
This is the story of Half Sugar. In the summer of 2016 I found myself singing and playing guitar for the grand opening of a brewery called Half Sugar. In a previous post, I talked about the bizarre nature of this name. Fortunately, I was not the only act. I’ve […]
Fall makes me think of delicious malt forward brews. A couple weeks ago I decided try my hand at brewing a traditional bock. I drew heavily from the recipe found in “Brewing Classic Styles” by Palmer and Zainasheff. I like to use this book as guide. I always end up […]
This isn’t a post about brewing with table sugar. “Half Sugar” isn’t a click-bait title. This is about the name behind a little brewpub in Xining, China called 半糖趣 (Ban Tang Qu). Translation…half sugar. First off there are definitely better names out there. A fancier translation for the brewery would have […]
Fall is here. It’s here with passion. I took a trip to our favorite hiking and camping spot with my family last week. The colors where in full swing. On our way, I saw some farmers sorting grain on the road. They had a stretch of road covered with grain. […]
In August of 2017 my daughter Dakota was born. Per the recommendation of a friend I decided to brew a lambic to have a special brew around when Dakota is old enough to drink. The actual brewing took place in March (3-04-18). The day this was brewed will go down […]
About seven months back my buddy Brian came over for a collaboration brewday. We had planned out a double brew, fifteen gallons of lambic and ten of imperial stout. Things started off well and we got through a turbid mash schedule for the lambic and had it boiling nicely before […]
Is there really a difference in taste between Weyermann Pale Ale and Malteurop Pale Malt? This experiment was designed to help answer that question. The Grain Weyermann Pale Ale vs. Malteurop (China) 2-row Pale Malt. Approach I decided to go with a triangle test evaluation method to find out if […]