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I brewed a saison with the Dupont strain this summer - my first time using it. I did the tinfoil over the fermenter thing and held the temperature at 85F for a whole month. FG ended up being 1.001, and there are definitely some good peppery flavors going on in the beer. So...just one example...

I've finally had time to work on more labels! This one was for a beer some friends brewed for some mutual friends who got married last week. And this one is for one of my own.

Pretty much every package of hop pellets I've ever bought has had a different AA percentage from the default brewing software value. Sometimes it's a difference of several percentage points. If you agree with the judge that things are coming out too bitter, that might be a good thing to check...

"Seismogenic" means "capable of producing earthquakes." I'm a seismologist. I do computer models of earthquakes. So, I am quite capable of producing (fake) earthquakes on my computer! (This is also the same username I use pretty much everywhere. So, you know, consistency.)

I've been trying to alternate between brewing a batch of something that I haven't brewed before, and brewing a batch of something I have to see if I can improve on it the next time around. But in terms of picking which new recipe to try next? Sometimes I want to have a specific thing ready by a...

2025 Nothing even happened to it, so far as I can tell! I lowered it very very very carefully into the sanitizer, it was definitely still in one piece when I let it go, and when I went to take it back out, it had snapped. At least I did get an OG measurement, and at least I'd hit my numbers...

Mostly bluegrass or related genres for me, too. I play mandolin in a trio that's sort of bluegrass/country/jazz, and the fiddle player and I often do joint brew days, so I suppose it only makes sense that our soundtrack for brewing fits the genre of what we rehearse!

Hahahaha, I see it! He's actually meant to look like the "Brewer" half of "Brewchrist," since this is his birthday beer, but it could certainly be said that my friend resembles the character as well...

I am laughing way harder than I should be laughing at Dogefish Head, especially considering the fact that I am at work. That is fantastic. (Please tell me the bottlecaps for that one will just say "WOW"...)

Here are some labels I've made for some friends who also homebrew. Their last names are Brewer (really!) and Gilchrist, hence Brewchrist. The playing around with Biblical names and iconography-stylized art ensued from there. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to stylize the...

+ 1 gallon dunkelweizen + 1 gallon IPA = 3427 gallons

I've seen more than one person open a beer with a rock. Not by bashing off the lid, but by actually popping it open as if the rock were a proper opener. I have even seen people do this with a completely smoothed cobble from a wash. I tried to do the same and failed miserably. (But maybe that's...

Maybe they figured they can't alienate craft beer drinkers any more than they already have merely by being Budweiser? (I didn't even sit down to watch the game, but was stopped for dinner on the way home from Tahoe and happened to catch just the right part of the game to see this commercial. I...

My Untappd username is the same as my HBT name: Seismogenic.

Sounds like you know about this trip enough in advance to get on the Anchor Steam brewery tour wait list. It's a free tour, but you usually have to book at least six weeks in advance! (Which is why I haven't done the thing yet, but I've heard the stories of how great of a tour it is!) As for...

Now you all have me worried over the fact that I have not actually noticed any cat hair in my beer, despite living in a small apartment with a very large double-coated shorthair cat whose hair forms drifts if I don't sweep once a week. Maybe I'm not paying close enough attention to my brewing...

Strike-Slip Brewing Company is the name I'm using. I'm a seismologist whose work is primarily focused on California. The plate boundary in California is such that most of the major faults - the San Andreas Fault and others that branch off of it - are strike-slip faults. (That is, one side moves...

+1 American stout (Which kind of got screwed up because I realized pretty late into brew day that my thermometer was broken, but oh well. Hopefully it will still give me a sense of what it should taste like, so I know if I need to change anything else for the next batch...) 1844

Gonna count this one as 2015 because it was actively boiling at the stroke of midnight... 220 + 1 gallon San Andreas California common = 221

I was actively brewing at the stroke of midnight! (This is only because I got started later than I intended on New Year's Eve, but so it goes.) So I guess my last batch of 2014 and my first batch of 2015 are one and the same, and they're a California common.