This Roggen beer is a recipe I adapted from the Home Brew Recipe Bible book. I adjusted to account for the ingredients available to me while keeping it overall the same. The style is similar to a dunkelweizen but replaces the wheat malt with rye. This is the first time I have tried brewing a […]
Read More →This is a mostly German pilsner. I call it mostly German, or German-ish, because of the use of American Cascade hops for bittering. Since I have so many in storage I figured why spend the money when it’s just a bittering hop? Well, throwing caution to the wind I went with it and am pleased […]
Read More →Though it is winter it certainly doesn’t feel like it with abnormally high temperatures around here and only 2 snow storms the whole season. However, it is that time of year for a nice winter warmer. This porter is great by itself but includes 5 lbs of tart cherries (from cans as they can’t be […]
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With the fall weather kicking in and the cooler temperatures coming along with it, I felt I needed something a bit darker to drink. Coming in at a low 4.2% this British brown ale should do wonders. It came out incredibly clear going into the keg but came out of the keg with some slight […]
Read More →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 […]
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