My Adventures in Home Brewing
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 Beer on Apr 29th, 2011
I didn’t make a post about my latest brew day, but here’s an update on the Pale Ale batch I recently brewed. Back in early April, I fired up the TopTier stand and cranked out a Pale Ale. It had been quite a while since I made a Pale Ale as I’ve been on the [...]
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 Brewing, Equipment, TopTier Brewstand on Jan 11th, 2011
Well after sitting by itself for a month and a half, my Blichmann TopTier stand finally saw some action on a brew day. At the last minute, I decided to brew my Black Stone Stout (for the fifth time). This would be the fourth time I’ve brewed the stout in a year. If you remember, [...]