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Nick was out of town so I decided to do a solo batch of maibock using a Munich yeast I had been holding onto for a while. This was the same yeast I used on the Oktoberfest. It’s a great yeast and I have the fridge space to do it so I figured ‘why not?’.
Anyone [...]
This is the tale of two ESB’s. Last brew day we did a 20 gallon batch so both Nick and I had 10 gallons. Coming out of the primary, both were pretty cloudy and lacked any clarity. Having been down this path before, I decided to add gelatin. However, since I had two of the [...]
A few nights back I had a great conversation with Ted to catch up on brewing. Ted was marveling at the massive new mashtun we were using and he had some practical questions about it. The one that stuck out to me was:
“Do you have something against batch sparging?”
While I have saught for the fly [...]
After brewing outside the capacity of our current mash tun, Nick and I have been looking for a way to build out. After surfing around for a 100+qt cooler, I was looking Craig’s List and saw a five gallon water jug for $10. I couldn’t resist.
I picked up this hoss with the [...]
So in December of this past year when my BYO came, I saw an article by Chris Colby about this new technique for brewing high gravity beers. While I was not able to find an online version of the article, you can order it from BYO here or you can hear a really informative interview [...]
Sunday was back to brewing for Nick and I in the face of REALLY cold conditions. A few weeks back I did a post about our attempt at making a Samuel Adams Lager clone but due to some unforeseen circumstances, that brew went on hold and I brewed my Tripel Nipple. Well this past Sunday [...]
Well doe to an unfortunate situation, Nick was not available this weekend to brew. With that said, I still need to get ‘my brew on’ so I am going to do a solo batch for my brain.
For this brew I am going to do a Belgium Tripel I am calling Tripel Nipple. When I [...]
It’s not been an easy past week. I am ready to do some brewing to take my mind off of everything.
This weekend we will be brewing a Hopped Bohemian Lager in the spirit of Boston Brewing Company’s Samuel Adams Lager. If you don’t know about this brew, I tell ya what. If you don’t know [...]
No brewing for the last two weekends and I am again not going to be brewing this coming weekend as I will be in New Hampshire campaigning for…well a presidential candidate (If you know me, you know who it is, otherwise I want to follow the rules of “no talking religion or politics on [...]
In the face of blistering winds, lake effect snow, sleet, and full on up-state winter, we manned up and brewed.
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
333 PM EST SUN DEC 16 2007
STEADY SNOW WILL TRANSITION TO BANDS OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW TONIGHT…WHICH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY. ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONSOF 3 TO 6 INCHES [...]
