So you love Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or maybe Guinness Stout is more your style and want to make a Guinness Stout Clone. Where do you begin? It’s not as easy as throwing some ingredients together and it’s not as hard as finding the Holy Grail, it’s somewhere in between.
Having brewed many, many batches of [...]
Here is a beer I brewed up back in the fall that I hadn’t shared up this point. Northern English Browns are malty beers with just enough hop bitterness to keep the beer from being overly sweet. Commonly malt flavors include nutty and biscuit. Northern English Browns typically are a bit drier on the finish [...]
I couldn’t be more happy with the way the Carty Cascade 2009 turned out! Recall I was shooting for a straightforward APA recipe that would showcase the hops we harvested in September. Here’s my writeup of a recent tasting and a picture. I really enjoy the hops and look forward to future harvests!
The beer pours [...]
If you’re wondering how the marriage of Maibock grains and and a healthy helping of German hops turned out, keep reading. I’m quite pleased with the appearance of this brew, a nice golden color with a frothy white head. Here take a look:
More importantly is the aroma and flavor. The aroma is moderately malty, quite [...]
What better to do on a cold December morning? Brew! Today I brewed an American Pale Ale, using the Cascade hops grown in my buddy’s backyard this summer. The recipe I crafted was quite simple, I wanted to showcase the hops. I’m curious to how these Cascade hops will compare to Cascade hops grown in [...]
So a few weeks back I ventured into the hop garden at my friend’s house. We harvested the hop cones from the 2 year-old Cascade plants we have growing along a fence in their backyard. Last year we got very little hops, not even enough to really use, but good bine growth. This year the [...]
So last April (2008) my buddy and I planted three Cascade hop rhizomes along a fence in his yard. Last year our harvest, as expected was quite minimal, but we got some good vine growth. By early April this year our hops were poking through the ground. By the end of May the hop vines [...]
So a couple months ago I posted about my 1120 IPA recipe I crafted. I know the world is eagerly awaiting the report, so how was it? Ok, no one is dying to know, but if you were curious here’s the report. Enjoy!
Like I said in my previous reports, my racking cane got clogged so [...]
So I’ve finally got the time to brew up my next batch. My next batch is going to be a celebratory brew, a rather strong, very hoppy IPA but with enough malt to keep it from being one dimensional. I’ll be brewing next Sunday. Here’s the recipe I’ve worked out so far.
Beer Name: 1120 IPA
OG: [...]
Well it sure has been a while since I’ve last posted. Buying a house and painting sure has taken up a lot of my time! After moving work took me to Phoenix, Arizona. Let me say, it was great to get away from the bitter cold -20F temperatures we were having in Wisconsin in exchange [...]
