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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 [...]
So as I said before, I want to provide some details about brewing cider. Nick picked up 13 gallons of UV pasteurized cider from a cider mill north of us (I will spare sharing their name because according to NYS law, they are not supposed to sell us unpasteurized cider, stupid NY laws).
The plan [...]
This past weekend I went over to Nick’s place and we worked on our pumpkin ale. We also did a cyder that I will write a post about as soon as I get the details from Nick on what we used and what we did.
What I am writing about today though was the pumpkin ale. [...]
A few weekends ago, Nick and I brewed up a pumpkin ale. I will make an update on where we are to date with the pumpkin ale but for now, I want to give some input on the brew day that was:
First off, Nick was good enough to volunteer for “pumpkin prep”. This consisted of [...]
