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As mentioned, I’ve been brewing a kit called Hex Nut Brown Ale from Midwest Supplies and its now time for racking. The whole idea here was to use a base nut brown ale and add some of the vanilla beans my wife picked up to give it a vanilla nut brown ale, similar to what [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was contacted about reviewing a brew kit from Midwest Supplies and agreed (on the condition that I could make a minor tweak!). The brew kit came with instructions and all the ingredients I needed for a nut brown ale. The recipe said the brew would produce between [...]
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Midwest Supplies about reviewing a brew kit for them. It’s been a while since I brewed (or blogged for that matter, sorry about that) and I figured why not? So I asked them to send me their “Hex Nut Brown Ale” kit because I’ve been wanting to [...]
This past weekend we brewed up three batches of brew. We also broke a new brewer into the hobby when by wife’s cousin Bryan (Yes MNB, spelled like Bryan Adams, no need to get all giddy) joined us and brewed up an extract batch. When the day was all said and done, we had brewed [...]
This past weekend I had a few of the guys from my fraternity over. They came in Friday night and one of the guys who is now a 5 star chef and masters grad from the CIA, cooked up steak and lobster on the grill and we washed it down with the Poo Dollar IPA. [...]
I brewed my first extract brew in a long time and I used Beer Smith to make the recipe. Here is what I did:
3.00 lb Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 30.0 %6.00 lb Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 60.0 %1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt – 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 10.0 %1.00 oz Chinook [...]
This weekend I am going to be using my Beer Smith generated recipes to brew up two brews. The first will likely be tomorrow night and it’s going to be an Extract IPA. I decided that I was in need of a beer to have on tab while I work on the Oktoberfest (yea I [...]
In my continuing quest to find a financial shortcut to everything, this week I installed a thermometer on my brew kettle. I searched around and found that there are 2 or 3 companies that make these specifically for brewing and to install onto a brew kettle. Let me start by saying that these thermometers have [...]
I went out looking for an Octoberfest brew that I could make with extract. There were a lot of them out there, but the one thing I noticed is that there was no consistancy in the ingredients so I was not sure what made one different from the others. So here I am. I found [...]
Now I have never been a fan of the Cherry Wheat’s that I have tried (Sam Adams), I think because they use the Cherry Flavoring as opposed to the real Cherry’s. Well everyone I have talked too loves the Cherry Wheat so I bucked and decided to make this.
Malt Extract: 3.3lbs Light malt extract (I [...]
