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Made a run to Russian river to pick up some beer for a friend, the Sour on tap was awesome and Pliny was great as always. Pliny the younger is being tapped on February 5th. The growlers were full of Pliny earlier in the day not so much anymore, def a nice start to the new...

So I have freinds that own a patisserre in Berkeley. They share my love of beer and food and decided they wanted to make me a cake for my birthday. I thought you all might get a kick out of it.

I am making my pumpkin beer tomorrow and had some questions. For those of you who have mashed in a cooler with braid do you think there would be value to puttingthemash into an extra large hop bag and then into the cooler with the rice hulls. I may loose some efficiency but avoid stuck sparge...

Brewing a mild and eating abaone ceviche life is good

Well I am glad I went into this trying to learn because one of my beers took a reaming. I entered a Stout recipe that I came up with from a bunch of Guinness clone recipes and my version of Ed Wort Haus Pale - My first all grain in a bag. The Stout was reviewed by a Grand Master I which was...

This morning I bottled my first batch of Apfelwein - so far it tastes good, we will see what comes of the carbing. I did half still, 1/4 normal prime and 1/4 normal prime with a couple grains of champagne yeast - same as fermentation yeast. It is making for a fun little experiment without much...

Well I set about to brew for the 2nd time after my exploding carboy incident. Everything seems to be going along well. It is a stout kit with a grain soak. Came up with a OG of right around 1.05 which is within specs. Set up the fermentation with a carboy cap and blow off tube. The 1st day...

1st time to site lots of great info. Made up my first batch of HB Sat. night. Was a kit based stout. Everything went according to plan and into a 6.5 gallon glass carboy with standard airlock closure. I was not in the mood to carry the carboy down to the basement that night so into a coat...