Recent content by Ogroat

Drinking a KBS and (trying to) watch baseball. The Cardinals game is in a rain delay, so it's pretty much just the "who cares?" A-Rod segments back to back.

Tomorrow I'll be brewing a beer that I call "Hard Brexit". It's got the grain and hop bill from an Altbier but uses a British Ale yeast. It's one of my favorite beers that I've made and a crowd pleaser.

I was getting ready to bottle a Vienna lager, but the gravity reading came out suspiciously high. Instead, I'll be doing a forced fermentation test, watching some baseball and drinking some beer. First up is something the HBS had today - Tropigose by Captain Lawrence Brewing Company. I've liked...

I started brewing about 18 months ago and have been brewing a wide variety of different beers. However, I've recently been coming around to the idea of repeating some things. I've just started fermenting the first in a planned series of three saisons where the brewing process is identical but I...

Was that made for the movie?

Next up is a homebrew that I call "Hard Brexit." It's got the malt bill for a German-style Altbier and an English ale yeast. It's got a nice maltiness to it.

Another two hours! That's dedication as far as I'm concerned - sounds like an all day affair. On the other side of things, I'm planning on making a saison this weekend. I'll be doing a BIAB mash of 30 to 45ish minutes and then a 30 minute boil in an attempt to get a batch in without being...

"Sour India Pale Ale with Strawberry, Pink Guava, Tahitian Vanilla and lactose added." There's a whole lot going on in that beer. Is it any good?

Time to mow the lawn before it's soggy all weekend. I picked up a beer called I am Brut from a local place named Old Ox Brewery. This stuff is dry! I do like it, though.

Ojo Del Tigre Mexican lager from a place in Virginia Beach called Commonwealth Brewing. I’ve been on a small lager kick recently to calibrate my palate while brewing my first lager.

It’s too late now, but for future purposes - I’ve had luck with adding heat to a stuck batch that I couldn’t unstick. I put the carboy on a heat pad and it picked up and slowly fermented for another month or so and dropped very clear as soon as it was done.

Just take a solid IPA with a hop character that leans toward fruity and add some of the powdered peanut butter you can get at the store. I imagine that would be pretty close to what this tastes like.

PB&J IPA from a local brewery. The gimmick beer got me. It’s not terrible, but I wouldn’t be tempted to get it again.

It’s been six months since I brewed this up. The carboy has been sitting in the corner, ignored except to fill up the airlock occasionally. I’ve got a couple ounces of Hungarian oak cubes soaking in some bourbon currently. I’ll put them in the beer in a week or two and the plan is to leave it...

I actually just brewed it up last weekend, a good few months later. It was next on my "to brew" list anyway, but I was able to get ahold of some KBS recently and really enjoyed it. It wasn't a dry beer, to be sure, but I liked it much better than the maple variety. I'm looking forward to trying...