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Okay not really a miracle. But at the time it was pretty cool. Here's the deal: My latest batch, my fourth attempt at the "perfect" witbier, turned out funny. You could call it "Snow Wit" witbier because it lived during fermentation through over 24 hours of no heat from power loss as a...

Lately, more and more, when tasting my brews, I've been mistrusting my internet supplier of grains which packs my recipe grains crushed in a single bag. This is partially because they are constantly running out of stuff. Since I brew small batches based on taste tests, I believe my batch results...

I hadn't labeled my yeast containers back then. I would just remember them by detail like the color of the wort, etc. It worked great--or so I thought. One day, I was drinking an APA with (supposedly) WLP001. But the yeast was very WLP300 ish. Then it dawned on me... The babies might have been...

It smells like an old shoe and it tastes amazing! Give up? It's my secret witbier recipe! Sorry people, I only have a few bottles left and I'm going to use them in a scented hot bath tonight, so please: don't even.

I love my unconverted 5 gallon cooler with a vinyl mesh inside. I used it to learn all grain brewing and I get good efficiency out of it. Today I brewed my first Trappist dubbel (pretty excited about it) and I was paying attention to the clarity of the wort more than ever. I thought to myself...

In the Iambeer house, all was quiet and all was still. There I was, sitting on the couch sippin' SNPA's and getting in the SNPA groove; Thinking, "SNPA, I love you". Then I thought I would break open my tester from the SNPA clone batch I bottled a few weeks ago (in the frigo since yesterday)...

Have you ever taken a beer sample from a done fermentation and thought---wow this beer is Perfect with a capital P and then by the time it's transferred to the next phase, the next sample doesn't taste quite as amazing? Also, things taste good one day and bad the next.. Like if I eat...

I've been brewing since April and moved to all grain by the third batch. I'm glad I stuck with this hobby because I had a rough start, as you might expect from most who starts brewing with AG at the beginning of a hot summer without having read about brewing much more than a few posts here and...

At 5% ABV, I don't consider it "sessionable". Whether sessionable or not, the point for me is that this beer tastes amazing! And I wonder why it gets no love. It doesn't get much attention and not the best ratings. Is it because the APA style is unpopular? If so I need to know what is a...

In my secondary is an SNAPA replicate recipe... I want to have a variety of APA with each a distinct profile, so having tasted my first Left Hand Stranger, I decided to go for this... but I don't see a 'standardized' clone recipe accepted by the critics etc. On Left Hand Brewing Co's website...

A couple weeks ago, two starters I made from a slant were very disappointing. I used the 'shake' method every day or two and after a week, didn't yield much yeast (a good amount, but not enough for a batch, not even enough to fake it). So while I have 25 odd slants with about 6 or 7 different...

Lesson learned. Check gravity more often. I guess the reason I'm posting this is wishful thinking. That someone will say: It's fine! But I don't think so. Fermentation of WLP300 in OG 1.055 all grain wort. Three weeks go by at about 60F ambient. Fermentation apparently came and went. Tested...

I buy universal bungs... you might know.. the ones that don't fall in because they have a lip. These bungs have a 'predrilled hole'. Not sure who drilled that hole before I got it, but there it is, a hole. Then, I insert into bung hole either a blowoff tube or an airlock. Now, the airlock will...

I have two startrrrs going at the moment and one (basic american ale yeast) smells funny. Should I dump it? They both have been startin' for 3 days from 6 month old slant samples. The other one (european ale yeast) smells fine but it's a different yeast.

On recent brews I've skipped the primary fermenter and have gone directly to the secondary. So far this has turned out just fine. I know people say the secondary is not necessary but I'm skeptical, especially when the primaries are getting washed and I just need to move pre-aging forward into...

"Hail to the Chief" is the presidential anthem based on verses from Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake. "Ale to the Chief" is the title of a White House blog entry dated Sep 1 2012 tapping into an outpouring of public interest and making its beer recipes public. "Hail to the Thief" was...

Nice marketing campaign! Not.

I upgraded from a 7th floor apt to a small house with basement! Loving the basement more than an october spider in heat. Have great expectations for future ales. Two of which are fermenting down there. Second upgrade is city water without chloramine. Yep. Only chlorine. It's clear and tasty...

So for those of you who know what fresh wormwood smells like..... can you imagine it in beer? I'm not sure that I can. I've seen basil cream ales this summer.. thinking along the same lines may work.

There should be a big sign on the side of the highway to warn people about mead. About how it tastes like sugar water prison liquor junk. I would pay tax dollars for that. I've never bought mead so i don't know what it's supposed to taste like. I've had plenty of beer and the beer I've brewed...