With session #20, we are about 85% of the way through our BJCP category study. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been at it for nine months, and that we’re only about two-and-a-half months away from the exam. Tonight we tucked into some… bigger beers.
Session #19 of our BCJP study group took on Category 10. Another fun category, what with the rich history and vibrant flavors that characterize the German Wheat Beers.
Sometimes you just want to make something straightforward and simple. No tricks. No experiments. Just something plain and pure and seasonally appropriate. Like this American Porter, Tilde Porter:
Category 17 was the occasion for our 18th BJCP study group session. Only six categories left to study — over 75% of the way through our rubric. A fun category with some interesting variety despite the common thread running through them.
As a variation on a saison, grisette was a style that I instantly fell in love with. Almost immediately afterward I started poking around, plotting how to make one of my own. And after about a year and a half of research and planning, I pulled the trigger on a batch which (for reasons I […]
Seems the mead-making is becoming a regular part of my brewing/fermenting rotation. And so without fanfare, here is Couples Massage, my passionfruit melomel.
We convened for session #17 to cover Category 9, Strong European Beer. Only (“only”) three styles to cover, but all of them pretty heavy hitters.
Study session #16… meet Category 16: the Dark British Beers. Very small group tonight (only four!) as we contended with a nasty winter snow storm that forecasts predicted would start to peak more-or-less smack in the middle of our study session. But we had enough to move ahead. And by that, I mean that we […]
Personal 50 “home days” with E. while he was in part time preschool. 1 Managed to ski 10 times between the bottom half of the 16/17 season and the start of the 17/18 season. Visited 2 National Parks that we’d never visited before. 2 Read 36 books. 3 Read 380 articles (blog posts, etc.) between […]
For regular readers of this series, you’ll remember when I brewed up Prosody (Motueka) and declared my love for the New Zealand hop varietals. A little before that brew day, I’d gotten my July/August 2017 copy of BYO with its Style Profile on the New Zealand Pilsner. Intrigued, I put together a recipe similar to […]