The first five months of my year were spent wrestling with demons, and in truth, I’ve been playing catch-up ever since.The one thing that amazes me about my period of dazed detachment is that a fair amount was still accomplished through the numbing …
Here is an interesting PDF from Greg Doss’s NHC presentation Brettanomyces: Flavor and performance of single and multiple strain fermentations with respect to time. His experiment compared a “traditional” Brett in secondary fermentation, a 100% Br…
Since this is my first time doing the whole “Melomel” thing, I have been documenting everything pretty extensively. This whole process requires a lot of doctoring throughout. While I know a lot of people do the fruit in the secondary, I went with the …
Date: 07/25/2008 05:40 PM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOP THREE U.S. PREMIUM BEERS, 2007, BY VOLUME SHIPPED:
-Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch Co., St. Louis, Mo., 42 million barrels
Six-pack of 12-ounce bottles, typically $5.59
-Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch, 24.6 …
David is an enabler, so when we’re out drinking he almost always insists on me adding to the list. So after we left Radegast we had to go to Spuyten Duyvil for another round. I’m a big fan of this place, great atmosphere, great beer and awesome bar …
Date: 07/25/2008 04:17 PM
Brewmaster Larry Sidor draws in the aroma of full-flower hops at the Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Ore., Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Craft breweries such as Deschutes are the fastest growing segment of the beer industry, and many of…
Anybody who has done homebrewing for a while eventually runs into a bit of math. If you are afraid of math, skip this post. However, if you are like me, and a bit of a geek, this might be fun.If you’ve looked into homebrew math at all in any detail,…
I got up early to brew. I mashed it, and missed my mash temperature by 7°, hitting 161°. I mashed with about three and a half gallons of water, and sparged with five gallons at 175°. I collected about 6.5 gallons, and boiled for an hour….
As violent storms ripped through the Philadelphia area yesterday, Sunday, July 27th, our fearless cyclists celebrated the end of the Tour de France by embarking upon the first of 6 legs (this one, 60 miles) from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and wind…
The politics of beer (and throwing off the anorak)