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Smashed out my Red Rye IPA around work. 81% Maris Otter 10% Rye Malt 5% CaraRed 3% Red Rye Crystal 1% Carafa Special 1 23L into the...

Guess this counts as one?

DEYA/Boxcar Brewery collaboration, "Crocodile Queen". 11% English barleywine aged for 18 months in Amarone wine barrels. It's...

644 by a mile. More to style. The 001 was interesting but not as punchy and more biscuity.

After 6-1/2 years of brewing I finally built a shelving unit for grain and empty bottles.

Thanks for this- I needed a base malt stock-up before my next brew day, and it now looks like my red rye IPA is going to be on a Plumage...

It's very easy today make, and extremely delicious. I usually keep a jar made with a mixture of red and yellow grapefruit in the fridge...

First full size pull of my cryo BRU-1 NEIPA. It's really good. Still the faintest bit of residual hop bite but almost totally cleared...

For liquid lager yeasts I'll always do a starter and usually shoot for a "high gravity" pitching rate even in standard gravity beers...

Nothing gives. It's pretty common for hazies from commercial breweries to be north of 1.020, you need the extra gravity to provide boty...

It's a lovely sunny afternoon so I thought I'd make a beer cocktail. 50ml Plantation OFTD Rum 25ml lime juice 10ml homemade orange...

That sounds delicious and it inspired me to try a way of getting dark rum flavor in a porter. It could be done using barrel chips from...

Cornstarch, or corn sugar?!

Boiled 69g of my rum barrel oak staves up in preparation for my BA Red Rye IPA. Added them to a jar with about 300ml of cheapish 5-year...

It's probably closer than Untappd, which thinks it's an American Stout.