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Intro to Digital Photography for Beer 13 May 2013 | 11:48 pm
Every once in awhile someone asks me what kind of camera I use, so I thought I’d post a write-up to save me the time of putting something together for each request. I also thought I’d include a few ti...
Hibiscus Wit Tasting 10 May 2013 | 02:17 am
Always fun to get three different beers from a single brew day. I took a batch of Belgian wit , bottled some straight-up, kegged half after dry hopping with Galaxy , and infused the rest with hibiscus...
Second Pull - Wine Barrel Solera 7 May 2013 | 01:19 pm
More than three years after initially filling the red wine barrel in my basement with a pale lambic-ish wort and inoculating with a pre-East Coast Yeast test culture of Al Buck’s Bugfarm, Nathan and I...
Rum Vanilla Cinnamon Porter Tasting 2 May 2013 | 12:45 am
No brewer, no matter how skilled or experienced, is able to avoid off batches completely. The hope is that when you do make the rare mistake, you are able to learn from it, and avoid the same mistake ...
Going to the 2013 National Homebrew Conference in Philadelphia? 30 Apr 2013 | 01:49 am
Yes - 26% No - 73% When I posted the poll, my plan was to use this recap post to announce that I’d be attending the National Homebrewers Conference … sadly that doesn’t look like it’ll happen. I fou...
DCambic (DC Lambic) Tasting 26 Apr 2013 | 02:03 am
Of the beer styles I’ve brewed multiple times, lambic is the one where success has been the slowest to come. Most likely because the skills I pick up brewing pale ale translate to porter, IPA etc. Lam...
The Four Stages of Homebrewing 23 Apr 2013 | 01:16 am
After a post busting homebrewing myths , I wanted to put together something a bit more positive. So I came up with four sets of brewing techniques/equipment that fit together. The categories start wi...
Modern Times Lomaland Saison #2 Tasting 19 Apr 2013 | 12:22 am
Wyeast 3711 French Saison is simultaneously maligned and celebrated. It is probably the easiest saison strain to work with, fermenting rapidly and completely regardless of wort fermentability and ferm...
Nanus, Naardensis, and Custersianus (Three New Brett Species) 18 Apr 2013 | 01:45 pm
The nomenclature used to sell Brettanomyces can be confusing and can sometimes a bit misleading. Currently essentially all of the Brettanomyces strains used in brewing belong to just two species, B. a...
Galaxy Dry Hopped Wit Tasting 11 Apr 2013 | 11:53 pm
Sorry for the lack of tasting notes posted recently, I’ve been fighting off a nasty cough for the last couple weeks. This batch of wit was brewed as a double proof of concept for Modern Times . Five g...
