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Can’t wait for the Beer City Festival tomorrow! I was supposed to play a show with my band later tomorrow evening, but it got cancelled. This is a good thing, as I can now drink a lot more beer!
I think there are still a few tickets available at Barley’s or at the gates at the [...]
Check out this interesting contraption. It’s an induction cooktop, meaning that it uses a magnetic field to heat the pot. The burner never actually even glows hot. It’s all magnetic. This thing might be good for making wort.
Even though I don’t frequent fast food places, a soon-to-open Florida Burger King will begin serving beer. It’s about time, don’t you think? They’ve been serving beer at fast food places in Europe for quite some time, but why don’t they serve it here, the homeland of fast food?
Here’s where I heard about it.
Scott Hicks over at Wolf Mountain Apps has created a nice-looking brewery locator application for Android-based mobile apps.
So I’ve brewed about ten batches at this point, but I’ve yet to brew one at my own house, with my own facilities. Of course, my kitchen sucks, so maybe it’s better this way.
With only two beers in my fridge, I’ve got a problem. This requires immediate resolution… Do I drink them now, then go get more, or do I get more now, then drink more than two? Such tough decisions in life…
We brewed a batch of pale ale the other at Brian’s house. It was just a simple American pale ale, a recipe from Hops and Vines.
This time, when making grain tea, we followed Alex’s advice:
Place the pot with the tea bag in the oven on low (around 150-160º) Leave it in there for about 45 minutes
This [...]
Yet another IPA for the record, Highland’s Kashmir IPA contends with the best of them. It pours with a decent head and a clear, golden-brown color. The aroma is thin but with an abundance of fresh hops.
One of my favorites, Highland’s Gaelic Ale is an Asheville staple in the world of beer. You can never go wrong with a Gaelic Ale!
So I finally got a chance to taste my second batch of homebrew! It’s a Smoked Porter, a recipe from Alex Buerckholtz, owner of Hops and Vines, a brew supply shop in West Asheville, North Carolina.
I tried a half-pour of Sierra Nevada’s Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale at Asheville’s Thirsty Monk, and they’re not kidding about the freshness of the hops. A bit too hoppy for me, this beer is much more like an IPA than a typical pale ale. It’s a special beer, though, blending seriously-fresh hops from New Zealand [...]
Years ago I gave Sweetwater Blue a shot, and I remembered that it tasted overwhelmingly like blueberries, as if they poured some concentrated blueberry right into the beer at bottling time. So on recommendation from Jeff, I decided to give it another shot; he swears it doesn’t have too much blueberry flavoring in it.
This black ale, in my opinion, is pretty damn good! The aroma is smooth, not overpowering, with barely the faintest smell of hops. Nice head, nice smoothness to the pour.
The Mothership Wit beer pours super light! It almost looks like lemonade. The aroma is loaded with citrus and spice, and the head isn’t bad, but I’d expect a bit more from a wit beer.
I’ve brewed four home brew batches so far, and I’ve bottled two of them. I’m starting to really see the bigger picture when it comes to brewing, and I’m really starting to feel a like it’s time to get a bit more experimental with these batches. At this point, I’ve brewed:
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