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After the fiasco that was our first attempt at brewing two beers in a single brew session, we decided to go at it more more time. This time we are taking on a Lagunitas IPA clone and a robust porter I am calling Porterhouse.
Now for those of you that don’t know, those of us who [...]
A few days before I made all the changes and moved the kolsch and cream ale around, I bottled my Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout cone. If you remember right, I noted that I was WAY over on the oak chips and it was a little like drinking bark.
To help deal with this, [...]
So last night I was racking over my Kolsch from the secondary into a keg and I was harvesting the traub to use for an alt in the future. It was just then it happened, I turned my head and my yeast bit me! The goddamn stuff jumped out of the bottle and bit my [...]
We just finished up a great brew day! By the time things were all said and done, we had 11 gallons of cream ale with an OG of 1.044 making our efficiency 71%!
Now I know that people always say “don’t worry about how high your efficiency is as long as you are making good beer, [...]
Since we have been brewing a lot of really big and complex beers the last few times out, we decided to lighten things up a little and go for a Cream Ale. If you have been reading for a few months you’ll remember that I did a vanilla cream ale (no link because I think [...]
After the success (eventually) of the beer fridge I made with a dorm fridge and a cold plate, Nick decided he was ready to make the plunge into kegging and wanted one himself.
For this project, Nick had a bigger dorm fridge than I had previously used. The fridge that he used looked like a 4.6 [...]
So the title is in reference to the Wu Tang Clan and the Wu Wear they made famous. Though I am am not a crazy Wu fan, I do appreciate their shaolin style, but I digress.
This weekend I spent doing some “fixer uppers” on my brew house. While all this was going on, I kicked [...]
[CNYBrew] Hi, my name is Travis and I am a beer geek
[Beer Blogosphere]Hi Travis
OK, so the first step is admitting so here I am, giving myself up.
So a while back I decided I wanted to start treating my mash for pH and taking measurements. I started to, but felt like I was not really [...]
So Saturday morning we got up bright and early and had ourselves a great brew day. I had the water on the flame by 6:30am! Nick showed up at 7 with some Mcd’s treats and we were off.
We struck the water at about 174f because we were not paying attention. Now my beer smith is [...]
So after an election week break (I hope everyone went out and voted!) we are back in business. We decided that this week we were going to brew up a nice hoppy American Red Ale. We were going for something along the lines of a fat tire red ale and a few others we saw.
Listed [...]
