Archive for 'Brewing'

Back to Brewing

This weekend, my father came up from Florida to drop off some yard equipment. Yay for having my own lawn mower and trimmer. However, this left us with a Sunday with no real firm plans.
So, it was time to get back to my roots as a homebrewer. You see, I actually learned [...]

The Joys and Woes of Hyperfocus?

So I mentioned at the Kappellenberg meeting that we were re-designing Erminespot… this process was expected to take something like a week. Well… I got interested. Which means it’s mostly up now. While most of the content hasn’t changed from the previous Erminespot, and the gallery is still a bit… fugly, there are a few [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]