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I just opened my grizzly mill out of the box yesterday, and the grain arrives tomorrow out in the deep suburbs where I now live, an hour away from the nearest HBS... I'm glad to see the grizzly will work, because I don't want to tear up my rolling pin and cutting board (and arms!) crushing...

I have made an Apricot Wheat Beer with Smoked Malt that used dried apricots. I like the advice above to puree the stuff. I rehydrated the apricots in water a good long while, and brought them to a boil. I still lost a lot more wort than I expected. Doing it again, I'd take Revvy's advice. (From...

The Pomelomelomel was and is amazing. We set some bottles aside for drinking during anniversaries. It came out like a nice, dry, fruity and slightly-bitter white wine. No champagne fizz at all, alas, but at nearly 19% alcohol, that may be why. I could see this recipe working well with a white...

We'll be cracking that one open at the wedding, and not a moment sooner. It will be exciting, for sure!

Six months have passed since brewing this batch. It's *delicious* though I did over-carb. At this point the rosehips are far in the background, but still pleasantly present with the palisades hops. I wonder how they will do as some real time passes, but I think this is definitely a quality...

I made a sturdy Weizenbock with 3 pounds of Buckwheat Honey in the bill. It came out very tasty, indeed, with the roastiness of plenty Caraffa II carrying the Buckwheatness. Very tasty!

Emerald Ale 1.048 OG 1.012 FG 4.72% ABV 14.4 srm Batch size 5 gallons Boil size 4 gallons (Calculated with iBrewmaster) 3,15 Munich Malt LME 3.15 Bavarian Wheat LME 8 ounces pilsner DME 4 ounces Caraffa I (steeping) 6 ounces Belgian CaraMunich (steeping) 1.5 ounces Northern Brewer pellets...

I'm sipping the dregs of a buckwheat honey weizenbock I just bottled. Buckwheat has a distinct flavor, but it is not an unpleasant combination with spicy danstar munich yeast, at least. With plenty of carafa I and belgian caramunich, it kind of reminds me of belgian waffles. We'll see how it...

I am drinking the sweet, malty, bracingly bitter Alt Beer of my labor, and verily, 'tis a grand goodness, and all the shuffling of bottles was worth it. Success!

So, I'm drinking the leftovers after bottling and this beer will be excellent, and the Smaragd hops are fantastic. "Emerald Alt" 5 gallon batch: 3.15 Munich Malt LME 3.15 Bavarian Wheat LME 8 ounces of Pilsen DME (Mr. Malty suggested about 8 ounces of DME for bottling, so from a 1 pound bag of...

I'm bottling an Amber ale that's Dusseldorf Alt-style-though-not-quite, today, that I dry hopped with Smaragd. The hop bill was 1.5 Northern Brewer @60, then dry hopped throughout the primary with Smaragd, so it should have a strong presence of emerald. It sure smells amazing. We'll see how it...

That looks awesome, but it is way beyond me. My brother could do it, but I would only break something. When I get to Texas my only plan to expand was to get sleeping bags wrapped in plastic from my parents' attic and wrap the tub. But, we have some time, yet, at least enough for a dunkelweizen...

Eh, someday when I'm not a writer full-time I might expand, but our freezer is quite well-insulated with lots of stored things that do most of the work on the bottles, and as a full-time writer of many things, I benefit from getting up and moving around to check on the darn thing every now and...

Thanks! It's brewing. We'll see if I get signs of life today or tomorrow. I'm getting the feel down for changing out the bottles, and ramping temps down for afternoons and down not as much but still down for nights. Speaking of which... Oh, I did have to repitch the yeast with some Safale...

Brewing happened last night. I'm trying an Alt Bier with American Ale yeast. My hope is this yeast will be more forgiving than German Ale if I screw up the temperature control, and I'll know when I taste it if it has a fruity flavor instead of a clean, malty one, then I let the beer get too...

Howdy, Mixing beers... Taking two completed beers and joining them together to form a whole new beer. Or, maybe three different beers. The possibilities are endless. Whilst cleaning the house today, I forgot I had opened a bottle of Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout, which ended up half-full...

This sounds promising! Thanks!

Hm... And I'm about to relocate to Texas, too, where things are mighty warm. I might just have to wait.

Howdy all, I'm thirsty for Hefeweizen, and I'm all out of my last homebrew batch. I generally skip brewing in the summer heat once the thermometer gets above 90, and only do Belgian-style before that. But, I want Hefeweizen. I've heard all sorts of stories about what people do to brew ales...

Actually making a living in a creative profession is not actually that simple a thing to do. There's not many making it in creative/arts fields, in general, and the down economy hasn't helped. I'm still writing fantasy novels. I don't make as much money as I would like, but at least I own my...