Well, it’s almost that time of year again where the weather starts to cool down, the days start to get shorter, and the beer starts to shift back toward maltier and darker styles. With that comes the annual Oktoberfest and this year my homebrew club has decided to do a competition. We had to either […]
Read More →With the hot weather of the summer coming up I wanted to take a stab at a nice lawnmower session beer. I also learned about a new Japanese lager yeast from Imperial Yeast that I wanted to try. With this in mind I went looking for how to clone Sapporo. I threw together a quick […]
Read More →Wanted to test out the new Sabro hops that I picked up and what better way than a SMaSH beer? Turned out tasty as hell, though I don’t think Sabro is great as a solo hop and would be better with a different bittering hop. Still quite good though and shows off the hop quite […]
Read More →My wife wanted me to brew a Spotted Cow clone so I found one online. Other than coming in shy on my OG targets, this came out quite well. Haven’t had enough Spotted Cow to know how close it is to the commercial version but this tastes wonderful so who cares?!
Read More →Continuing with my experimentation with the hops I got earlier in the year, I decided to try an ESB but instead of noble hops like normal I used Nectaron hops. These are a New Zealand hop that is normally used in more modern takes on IPAs to add fruit flavors and aromas to beer. This […]
Read More →Earlier this year we had someone join a homebrew club meeting that had acquired multiple 5+ pound bags of different hops from a hop tea company and was giving them out at the meeting. Other than the Citra hops I hadn’t used any of the hops that he had before so jumped at the opportunity […]
Read More →Years ago when I was newly married to my beautiful wife, I challenged myself with making a Bud Light clone in order to finally make a beer my father-in-law would drink. It turned out quite well, though not perfect. I haven’t done any lagers since then, but this year I finally got my fermentation chamber […]
Read More →The second recipe I came up with from scratch after restarting my homebrewing this year. I am pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. It’s a very drinkable beer and the Mosaic hops added at flame out really add a nice fresh hop character to it that I am not used to.
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