My Adventures in Home Brewing
What better way to spend the day than brewing a beer! Summer is just around the corner and I wanted a summer beer to be on tap when the temperature heats up. It has been a while since I’ve brewed a “summer” beer so I decided a wheat beer would be my summer libation this [...]
Posted in Brewing, Equipment, TopTier Brewstand on May 16th, 2011
Filtering your water before you brew can never be a bad thing. So, there were two reasons that I bought this water filter. One and the most important was to remove chlorine. So now I can start the brew day with clean, filtered water. The second was strictly a laziness thing… I was tired of [...]
Posted in Brewing on Feb 17th, 2011
So, after two years of brewing I decided to step it up a notch and brew a big beer. Today’s beer is a Black IPA! For those who are unfamiliar with this style, wikipedia refers to it as follows: “The American-Style Black Ale (Black IPA, Cascadian Black Ale) is a relatively new variant of IPA, [...]
Posted in Equipment on Jan 18th, 2011
Today I bought a new secondary for the brewery; I purchased a BetterBottle. It’s a plastic fermentation vessel (carboy). The bottle is not just a normal, plastic bottle. It’s strong, scuff resistant, easy to handle, and essentially unbreakable. Also, the plastic is a special PET, so it is non-absorbing, non-porous, and it will not carry [...]