Honey Orange Amber Ale
So, this afternoon, I used the beer kit I received as a Christmas gift from my parents. Here are the original kit ingredients: - 3 pounds Muntons Pale Extract (hopped) - 2 pounds Muntons Amber Extract...
View ArticleAmber Bottled
Just for the record: FG: 1.023 Total yield was about 4.25 gallons. Beyond the usual loss to the yeast cake and the stuff left in the bottling bucket, I managed to overfill a couple bottles, and...
View ArticleBrew Day – Porter Experiment
Last Saturday, I brewed the porter kit my parents bought me for my birthday. I decided once again to tweak it, this time by adding molasses (just shy of 1/4 cup) to the boil right from the start, then...
View ArticlePark Ave Porter Plus bottled!
I bottled my porter project yesterday! FG was 1.019, which gives an absurdly low ABV of 2.944%? I don’t believe it. Anyway, I tasted the very last bit of gritty stuff at the bottom of the bucket and it...
View ArticleAle and pie
Some production and consumption notes: Saturday I made a pumpkin ale. I have long wanted to make a clone of Souther Tier’s Pumking, but I’m not ready for all-grain brewing yet, so instead I picked up a...
View ArticleBeer and “wine” and tracks
Today was a big beer day. Last Saturday, I had added the second specified spice packet to the pumpkin ale I had brewed. In doing so, I racked it all into the bottling bucket, then got rid of all the...
View ArticleNext Beer – Vanilla Bean Stout
Beer & Wine Hobby has a 70 dollar (!!!) bourbon cask vanilla bean stout kit. The most recent newsletter from Modern Homebrewing Emporium has instructions that I can put together on their website...
View ArticleBarleywine bottled
This weekend I bottled the barleywine that I brewed so long ago. Let me give a short review of all that has happened with this beer: 1.) First thing to do was to dry hop with the last of the Cascade...
View ArticleBeer Notes
With regards to my last entry, here are notes per beer: - Chateau Jiahu was really good the second time around. - Sahtea was OK. Too syrupy and cloyingly sweet in flavor. Didn’t notice much juniper. -...
View ArticleOctoberfest Beer bottled!
For my birthday, my parents got me two beer kits as usual. One was an Octoberfest, albeit with an ale yeast, which is not according to style. I just bottled it today, and I have taken absolutely no...
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