The blog post in which I unveil and discuss my twentieth homebrew, 1 Churlish Otter, a strong bitter in the style of those classic British pub ales: ”Twentieth?” (you ask) “What happened to no. 19?” Ah, you astute and perceptive reader you… We’ll come back to #19; don’t you worry about that. #19 just needed […]
Remember homebrew #18? Tilde Galaxy? Well, I entered it in the 2016 (7th Annual) Greg Noonan Memorial Homebrew Competition 1 and… …it won Third Place for the IPA category! Along with Sorry Karl Mk. II, but that’s a whole other story…[↩]
Please welcome Tilde Galaxy, a single-hop American IPA, 1 the fifteenth homebrew as Tilde Gravitywerks, my eighteenth overall, and my seventh original recipe. 2 Isn’t it a lovely sight? Arguably a Double or Imperial IPA. The 2008 BJCP style guide puts the upper end of American IPA as 1.075, and the lower end of Imperial […]
My fourteenth Tilde Gravitywerks homebrew 1 turned out to be the first… major disappointment colossal failure learning experience? I set out to make a simple pale ale (originally tentatively titled “Acorn Pale” 2) and what I wound up with, after a number of disappointing surprises, was the delicious and refreshing Boo Beer: And seventeenth brew […]
For my sixteenth homebrew, I tried to take my kölsch, Sorry Karl, and see what a partial mash version would look like. (Spoiler: it looked and tasted great.)
Homebrew number fifteen, and the third evolution on what’s becoming my signature beer, Honestatis.
Homebrew #14; the 11th as Tilde Gravitywerks, and my fifth original recipe. Acer Square is an assertive American porter with a touch of sweetness from maple syrup.
Homebrew session #13 was an experiment on all fronts. How to create a novel take an oft-loved-yet-also-oft-derided seasonal variety? I’m talking of course about the Halloween pumpkin beer, but figured why not add a little chili heat? Thus was born Flaming Hessian, the fourth Tilde Gravitywerks original:
My twelfth homebrew was my first crack at that Vermont staple style, the IPA. Intrigued by Kiwi Express IPA from NorthernBrewer.com, that kit provides the base for Koru IPA:
My eleventh homebrew is a slight variation on my ninth. In that vein Honestatis (Mk. II) is the first recipe I liked enough to make a second time: