Beery Beer

The next step in brewing experience has been accomplished. I’ve completed my first all grain batch. I wanted to do a standard pale ale with a not so standard hop profile. I present to you Sonic Saaz pale ale. There’s 7 ounces of hops in this fella, scattered almost continuously throughout the 60 minute boil. [...]

I’m visiting my mother’s house, and she informs me that there’s pumpkins growing in this year’s garden. So, like any other homebrewer, I suggest we brew a pumpkin beer with some of the harvest. My girlfriend, Heather, came up with the recipe, borrowing spice and grain ideas from a few different pumpkin ales. Since it [...]

Thanks to some help from my dad (and his power tools), I’m finally kegging beer. Due to the cramped quarters of my home and the idea that a portable kegerator does a drinker good, I decided to use a small chest freezer instead of an old fridge. Parts List: 7.2 cu ft Frigidaire chest freezer [...]

    Hi there! If you hadn’t noticed over the past couple of weeks, the blog was unreachable thanks to some hackers. Now that all that is out of the way, I can start posting some more detailed updates. Some quick notes: I’m getting closer to switching to all-grain brewing. The grain is purchased, the [...]

  Last night, the we bottled the troublesome tripel. It boiled over, overflowed during fermentation, and bottling was no picnic either. I was certain this beer was ruined. However, despite all the missteps, we have a high gravity tripel that should taste quite nice. Since I had my two best buddies helping me throughout this [...]

The latest batch of Beery Beer is a California Common, a style more widely known as Steam Beer. From Wikipedia: Historic steam beer, associated with

Introducing the first labeled Beery Beer.   I brewed a cream ale on 5/15/11 and bottled on 6/9/11 but am only now posting details about it. The delay is because the beer was presented to my friends Sam & Courtney as a wedding gift. It’d be a shame for my blog to ruin the surprise. [...]

Had a little mishap with the tripel batch tonight. I went to check the carboy to see how the fermentation was going and here’s what I am faced with:   Thankfully, when I bought my carboys, they came with a blowoff kit, so I was able to fashion a bigger airlock to compensate for the [...]

Here’s a strange one. I picked up a couple of bottles of Dearfield Ale for my parents. Dearfield is a strawberry blonde ale made by Crabtree Brewing in Greeley, CO and only comes in 22oz bombers. Since they don’t drink beer too often, Ma and Pa stuck these bottles in the pantry. Fast forward a [...]

George Washington. General. President. Brewer. Coney Island Brewing Company has partnered with the New York Public Library to brew a handwritten personal recipe of George Washington’s for “Small Beer”. Since that name is nearly sexy or alliterative enough, they’ve opted to name their liquid patriotism “Fortitude