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Happy Holidays From Brew Dudes
We are winding things down for the year so we just wanted to post something to wish you a good end of the year holiday season. Hopefully you get to have to time off with your family and friends. May you all have a great 2010! (We’ll get that M...
Homebrew Tradition
As a part of December 2009’s Fermentation Friday, Adam at Beer Bits 2 wants us to discuss our favorite holiday homebrew or homebrew tradition. I think our favorite holiday homebrew tradition is to brew up a number of different varieties and ...
No Home Brew Left
Dear readers, There comes a time, albeit rarely, that one looks around the house and starts opening cabinet doors and looking through cupboards and fridges and storage closets to find… There is NO HOME BREW Left in the HOUSE! Is there any bigg...
Beer Brewing Communities
Fermentation Friday again and this time the topic comes from the guys at Just Another Booze Blog. This month, we are discussing our homebrew community. First and foremost, our homebrew community is our family and friends. I think they are the ...
Bringing Homebrew To Work
When in the course of working events, beer brewing does come up in conversation. I found out one of my co-workers is a homebrewer and I told him I would bring some homebrew into work today. It’s definitely great to find someone where you spe...
Narziss Fermentation
I have been conducting a little research into brewing lagers lately. It’s a goal of mine to get the first lager out of the way (Have you taken the poll yet?) before the end of the year and finally fulfill a long standing Brew Year’s ...
American Homebrewers Association Website
The American Homebrewers Association has just released its completely revamped website. It’s a big improvement over the old site. Better organized and more relevant homebrewing features. It also has a slightly separate look and feel fr...
American Octoberfest
Thoughts can turn into things or in this case an event. Back in August, I had a thought of having a party involving malty lagers, smoked meat, and crisp Autumn air. Well, we had that party last Sunday. Here are some photos: The Oktobe...
BeerSmith Software Review
When we started this blog site I was just getting into using BeerTools Pro as my brewing software. I have since switched to BeerSmith and I am very happy. My favorite feature of BeerSmith is the recipe organization. I like the ability to organi...
Why Home Brew?
Since it is the last Friday of the month, it is time for us to submit a post for the ongoing blog event - Fermentation Friday. This month, Travis at CNYBrew.com is hosting. He poses this question: “Remember why we brew?” It’s a simpl...
Infected Beer
Oktoberfest Disaster! Unless someone can tell me other-wise, I suspect my Ofest is infected. There are white scale-like patches completely covering the surface of the beer. I had the beer at 68F for the last several days, hoping to dry it out so...
Prison Brewing
I’ll preface this post with a little tid-bit about myself. I am a wise-guy. Not a Hollywood/movie type wise-guy; but a wise-a$$ wise-guy. I call it like I see it. Some find it refreshing, some find they need refreshment after I open my m...
Craft Beer
This month’s Fermentation Friday topic is: What turned you on to Craft Beer? It is being hosted by Jason at http://perfectbeer.blogspot.com/ Mike had a great response to this question: First real unique experience with Craft Beer happened wit...
Pumpkin Ale Ideas
Tis the season for vegetable beers! If you said that to most non-beer folks they’d probably run away from you. But us beer lovers realize that Fall means harvest, and harvest means pumpkins. Now I am not a big fan of Pumpkin beers. Mainly...
Brew House Updates
Busy night Friday night in the garage. I brewed up my Oktoberfest recipe; aptly named Mike-toberfest. The brew session went well, but I didn’t really pay attention to my evaporation rate, so I ended up with 4 gallons of 1.065 beer instead of ...
Fusel Alcohols
I may need to create a new category called “Off-Flavors”. I never wanted to be an expert in off-flavors…but… So I cracked open a bottle of the honey wheat ale and took a few sips. Although it has a great honey-like aroma a...
Weekend Brew Sessions
Over the past weekend I fired up the kettles and I brewed two brews. First was my Ordinary Bitter recipe. I modified it a bit with some extra crystal malts and a single ounce of chocolate malt, just for more color and complexity. The OG came ou...
Homebrewing Risks
Today is Fermentation Friday for August 2009, hosted by Matt C. from A World Of Brews. The topic for this month is: I want to know if and why you break away from the norm. Breaking from the norm is a double-edged sword. While using interesting ingr...
Oktoberfest At My House
Who needs to go to Munich when we could have Oktoberfest at my house in MA, USA? Ok, it’s not going to be Oktoberfest. Not even close…but… What if Mike brews up that Märzen that he’s been threatening to make? Wouldn’t ...
Choosing Lager Yeast
So I am thinking about my first lager session. I was going to shoot for a Marzen/Oktoberfest style amber lager. Who knows maybe ready for October!?!? But I was wavering between using the White Labs Marzen lager yeast or using the White Labs Germa...
Homebrewing Clone Recipes
For this month’s installment of the monthly blogging event known as Fermentation Friday, Rob from PFIFF! wants to know: What beers have you attempted to duplicate in your own homes, or which ones have you always wanted to reproduce, but have be...
Oatmeal Stout Ice Cream Float
So here is a new twist in the personal passions of your truly. Not only am I an avid beer brewer, I also dabble in other fine things for consumption. Amongst baking my own bread and making my own pizza crust I also enjoy the occasional batch of h...
Essential Beer Styles
I have been thumbing though a favorite old recipe book of mine recently looking for inspiration. Temptation lurks on every page under the headings of Alt, Porter and Bock. I try to see these beers in my minds eye, and sometimes I imagine what ...
Perle Hops
A few years ago, Mike made an Alt using Perle hops. I have finally got around to conducting some research on this variety. Here’s some info I compiled to write up this well rounded profile about Perle Hops. They were bred using the Northern...
Home Brewing In The Summer
Welcome to Fermentation Friday for June 2009! The theme for this month was “beating the summer heat” when homebrewing. Here are posts from other homebrewing bloggers: Andy posted a comment: I’ve only just started and my batches are ...
Homebrewing Gift Cards
When people ask me what to buy their homebrewing pal, I always say gift cards or gift certificates. Now I know it’s an easy (lame) answer, but most people who ask me don’t homebrew themselves nor do they have any idea what the homebrewe...
Rising Cost Of Home Brewing Ingredients
I was reading some of the forums and I see a common theme around the rising cost of home brewing ingredients. We all know of the hop crisis that has affected the hobby for a couple of years now (but it’s supposedly better, right?) and that ...
Homebrew Shops and Brew on Premise
Are you familiar with the brew on premise (BOP) businesses? These are places that usually have several large kettles where you can go and brew a batch of homebrew. The advantage is they have all the equipment, ingredients and know how to make bee...
Fermentation Friday June 2009
Hey~! We are hosting Fermentation Friday for this month - June 2009. If you don’t know what Fermentation Friday is, learn more on Beer Bits 2. This month’s topic is: How do you beat the heat of summer time brewing? From brew house condit...
The Joy and Stress of Homebrewing
It’s Fermentation Friday for May 2009 and Ted from TedBrews.com has a two part theme: a. What part of the your brewday brings you the most JOY? b. What part particularly brings out a good deal of STRESS? I think we will answer in two parts as...
