As we raced to the finish line for 2018, I figured that I should try to fit in one last brew day to end with a nice round number of 30 batches for the year. That 30th batch took the form of Prosody (Amarillo):
I like to keep things organized. I like to have a plan. I’m OK changing plans or deviating from them — even improvising from time to time can be fun. But at the end of the day, I like to have at least some kind of loose roadmap to point to. This even extends to […]
As we raced to the end of 2018, I wanted to fit in at least one more new-to-me style. I don’t know the Bière de Garde style well 1 but the description was intriguing. And while it isn’t much of a clever name, I haphazardly dubbed it Le Rousse 2– an ambrée bière de garde. Straightforward […]
Like I wrote last time: because gotta keep some on hand at all times. Except… it had been a while. Evil Clone (Mk. IV):
Managed to brew 30 times 1 in 2018. Some big beers, some small beers. New-to-me styles, and old favorites. My first step mashes. My first ciders. Let’s to a quick retrospective on them, shall we? Thirty different recipes, at least. Between the beers and the meads and the ciders. We’ll call it 30.[↩]
Perhaps because I live in such a wonderland of New England IPAs, I’d never felt a burning desire to make one. Don’t get me wrong, the challenge itself is tempting — but only 4-ish years and 75 brews into the hobby, there are still so many challenges to choose from! However, when the opportunity to […]
People kept telling me that making cider was the easiest thing in the world. (“Easier than making mead?” I’d ask.) Apparently this is true. And if I hadn’t been so stubborn about it, I would have made my batch much earlier. On the left? Literal Fidelity. On the right? Witty Pome.
Brewing a big ol’ barleywine is a homebrewing right of passage, right? Something you simply must attempt at some point? And so here was my first stab at it — Extinction Event:
Yesterday, I judged at the New England Regional Homebrew Competition — earning my 5th judging point, which should put me into the Certified rank. It was a great experience, and I wanted to jot down a few notes while they were still fresh in my memory. Photo blatantly swiped from Facebook, but 100% credited to […]
The second 1 in this “junk drawer” series of “leftover ingredient” beers. After the (relative) success of #1, I looked in on what odds-and-ends were kicking around and applied my imagination toward Hoarder Intervention #2. Arguably third, if you count Younger Sister.[↩]