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.[
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A style that wasn’t really on my radar until I started studying for the BJCP exam was the (4B) Festbier. I cannot imagine that I’d never had one before, but I also must believe that I’d always either conflated it somehow with either a Märzen or a Helles (Bock?) 1 when trying to place it […]
With 2018 having been flush with hoppy American-style beers, Belgian-inspired ales, and meads, I was feeling like a change of pace. It was time to dust off my Vienna mit Roggen recipe and give an all-grain version a test drive. And that beer is Sirius Moonlight (Mk. II):
The time came for the fourth installment of my single-hop APA series. Having heard a thing or two about Huell Melon, it seemed like a perfect candidate for this experiment. And so… Prosody (Huell Melon):
Like I said last year: “How do I get myself into these things?” Except… now I know how I get myself into these. As a back-to-back Vermont Mead Maker of the Year, I feel like it’s my responsibility to get out there and demo the art for people. In the year 2018, the Mead Day […]
A project I’d long considered since making that first batch: a little honey and a little grape must gets you a pyment. And that’s what gives us Partial Shade:
Put the drinks from the last two posts’ worth of fermentations together and you get this: