First off, I must say thank you to another brewing blog that is doing great things. BrewGeeks is trying to compile a list of DIY projects they have found useful. This is a great resource and they recently featured my hop hanger on their site. You can find that, and many more projects, on their site. … Continue reading
But I’m looking forward to it! Plus, it’s a little fitting considering this weekend is the National Homebrew Day and the American Homebrewer’s Association’s Big Brew. Today I added my dry hops to my CDA, and it will be getting bottled next week. I’m really looking forward to trying this one since I have recently … Continue reading
I realized too late that I was making beer a little too fast. I had picked up six two-gallon buckets, and now they are all filled and fermenting. The problem with this is, they will all be finished about the same time. In the future, I will be brewing at a pace closer to once … Continue reading
I’ve been working a bit recently on my specialty grain experiment, and I feel it’s going pretty good. I have no idea how the outcome will be but I will see. The problem is, I was getting a little tired of brewing the same thing over and over. So I decided to shake it up … Continue reading
I’ve had a chance to drink several of my 2712 Honey Brown Ale and I have to say, I’m a little disappointed. I’m pretty sure I have it narrowed down to one of two things that could have happened to it. The first, and the one I definitely have fixed, I added about a gallon of … Continue reading
Since I started thinking about adopting an all-grain brewing method, I wondered what I was supposed to do with the specialty grains. When I was extract brewing I would steep them in hot water before adding the extract. What I found out was that most people just throw all the grain in the mash together, … Continue reading
