Archive for May, 2009

Bottled up

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I’m behind on everything, blogging, yardwork, work, other work, homebrewing, the list goes on. 3 day weekends seem to pass faster then a collection plate in today’s economy. Trying to keep up on my homebrewing I made some time this last weekend to bottle up my saison and un-Berliner weiss. I opted to cork some [...]

Homebrewed Stirplate

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Inspired by recent homebrew efforts I thought I would expand a bit and improve my practices (and really it is just about having more projects and gadgets, isn’t it?). I found a great post on Homebrewtalk.com by Anthony Lopez on how to make a cheap $20 stirplate for improving my yeast starters and building up [...]

Homebrewing Update

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

So today I thought I’d test out the carbonation on my first batch of the year. No real style in mind a sort of Belgian pale/amber was born (the picture makes it look lighter then it is). So far not to bad, the carbonation still has a way to go, but understandable for 5 days [...]