Saturday was Zee’s inaugural brew day with his brew sculpture. Pretty nice unit, that! Zee was brewing a German Pils as his first. The biggest issue with using the equipment was that Zee had to roll it down from his condo to the garage in order to brew. Not too big a deal as it [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by mapu
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When I started brewing last June I decided to try a Scottish 60/- first, as it is a very mild easy drinking session beer, and doesn’t have any strong flavors to cover up my sins. Also.. I love scottish and scotch ales and was curious was a Scottish 60/- tasted like since there aren’t any [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by biermonkey
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So I tasted a Belgian Golden Strong ale I made 7 or 8 months ago. It has been in a keg for that long because I fermented it too hot and the alcohols were very solvent-like. 7 months in a keg does WONDERS for that. My Belgian Dark Strong had the same problem but 6 [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2008 by snafui
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I was really looking forward to this brew to try to eliminate some variables and get a good solid mashing procedure down to try to eliminate this astringency problem we seem to be having. My goals were: Use Five Star 5.2 to lock in my mash pH at 5.2 to eliminate pH as the source [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by snafui
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sweet! our friend, matt, from mayflower brewing got some decent press recently. i tried two of the mayflower brews recently (thanks to matt for bringing a couple grows to zee’s party) and i can’t wait to try more! matt is quite the talented brewer. -sarita Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by sarita
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just wanted to let folks know that i posted some pics from the st patrick’s day party at zee’s house. there aren’t too many, but enjoy what’s there for now. i’ll see if i can round up some more from other folks that had cameras that evening. -sarita Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by sarita
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That’s right- I used to brew, but always just the canned extract where you boil, add some hops, cool, pitch yeast, ferment and hope. Since the crew has been brewing for awhile- I am now getting my feet wet with an ingredient kit bought at the Northampton Beer & Winemaking Shop. We’ll be meeting at [...]
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by mapu
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Saturday I’ll be trying out a new recipe. I’m brewing an American wheat beer that’ll be partially rye malt as well and fermented with a Kolsch yeast (WLP029). The goal is actually to brew a Kolsch when this beer is done fermenting and toss it right onto the wheat beer’s yeast cake. So it’s a [...]
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by snafui
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plus me, tho i didn’t take a pic of myself . . . Share on Facebook Tweet This Post
Posted on March 19th, 2008 by zee
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Attendance nearly doubled this week for the Tuesday night Beer League meeting @ the Moan and Dove. We had an overwhelming show of support from friends and family in the form of Boneless Buffalo Wings, good conversation, and a late night of drunken debauchery. I’d like to thank the yeast who sacrificed their lives to [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2008 by snafui
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