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Oh the Pimpage…

As Jennifer mentioned, we’ve totally re-done erminespot.com.  A new look, running on new software, and slowly, more and more new content.  We’ll keep posting about the content additions as we push them out.
For them that care, the site is basically one big WordPress blog now.  We can use the blog feature for updates (like these), [...]

Goat Scrotum Stout

This very well may be my most famous of all brews.  It’s “kitchen sink beer,” to be brewed with whatever else you happen to have hanging around from a number of other batches.  The ingredient list should be taken as a mere suggestion.  The last two ingredients have no measure nor quantity, and should be [...]

Practice is Canceled

Master Valdemar’s cold has forced the choice between armoring up in the below 30 degree weather and staying home to do laundry.  Perhaps I’ll have to try to fit in some yoga this evening too to help make up for it.

Lovebite Wiesenbier

The original idea was to make an unfiltered, Bavarian style wheat beer. Often, when at a bar, this is served with a slice of orange to garnish. I know that’s totally an American thing, but I have to admit it makes the beer a bit more tasty to have that hint of citrus. So, rather [...]

Gingered Ale

My wife is a huge fan of ginger, and when I started brewing, she was flipping though my Dad’s old copy of Papazian, and found the “Vagabond Gingered Ale” recipe. Hence, we dove into that batch and out came a dark brown beer with some ginger flavor. While it was nice, I wanted to give [...]

A “Good” Mead

I had recently taken up brewing as a side hobby, and so with Their Excellency’s competition for Baronial Champions drawing near, I set to brewing a mead for competition. I am not a huge fan of mead, but I thought that perhaps a period recipe and some labor on my part might help me acquire [...]