It’s here. Big Brew Day. As one of it’s many events, the AHA has many events each year- and tomorrow is the day where brewers get together around the country to brew together, enjoy some good food… And of course food homebrew! This will be the first time I take my brewery on the road [...]
Posted on May 1st, 2009 by mapu
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so today is mine and gerry’s first double brew day of this year. in preparation for st paddy’s day we’re brewing the light and hoppy recipe. we’re also brewing a dry irish stout, which i will be pouring next month at hampshire’s deathfest. we started at 7am and will be going straight until about 5pm [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2009 by sarita
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Here in beautiful Western Mass, it’s supposed to hit the high 40′s, so it is a beautiful day to brew. On tap for today’s brewday is a Chocolate Stout. The recipe is aas follows: 5 gallon batch 9# American 2-row 1# Munich 1# Crystal 60 1# Roasted barley 1# Flaked Oats 1# Flaked barley 1# [...]
Posted on February 8th, 2009 by mapu
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I’m excited! I just received news from the organizers of the Ohio Beer Week homebrew competition that the belgian dark strong ale I submitted took best of show! That means that out of all the beers that placed in the competition, this one was judged the best! This is definitely a surprise. When I was [...]
Posted on July 20th, 2008 by snafui
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I finally broke down and bought my first keg. Noho Beer & Wine has them for $29.99 each- and I was reading earlier about naturally conditioning beer in kegs. That was my biggest concern- the expense of CO2 regulators, tanks, etc in order to properly force carbonate. BUT- after reading, at least for now, I [...]
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by mapu
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Well, we’ve been drinking the Mild Ale for a little while, and it seems to be aging nicely. I do need to get some bottles over to some of the other Beer League guys for their assessment. last night, though, I dropped by my neighbor’s house with a bottle of the Mild, a bottle of [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2008 by mapu
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I finally decided it was time to bottle the Special Bitter- especially since it has been sitting in the bottling bucket since I repitched. Repitching didn’t do too much, but zee mentioned that I should have created a starter, and possibly let the started go for a little while to build up some alcohol tolerance [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by mapu
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I finally impulsively ordered a barley crusher. I am picking up a 50 lb bag of 2-row malt, and I have a few pounds of specialty grains- none of which are crushed. So- unless I want to truck down to snafui’s every time I need to brew- I needed a way to do it myself. [...]
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by mapu
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Well- finally a nice day where I have little else to do but brew! I am brewing an American Pale Ale from the BCS book of course. Luckily, I checked the errata page and found that the hops amounts printed in the book were incorrect. Right now, I have 6 minutes left to mash-in. I’ll [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by mapu
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Last night, it was time to bottle my Mild Ale (Through a Mild Darkly from BCS). Looks nice and clear (first batch using Whirfloc) and the OG has been steady at 1.014 for 3 days. Slightly high by .001 but I think she’s ready. At the same time, I was trying to decide what to [...]
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by mapu
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