Smoked Barleywine

Friday, February 12th, 2010

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, even longer since I’ve posted on homebrewing. But that doesn’t indicate a lack of actual brewing, just my blogging side hasn’t held up it’s end of the bargain. The last few months has been a great stretch of homebrewing, at least for my standards, around 12 batches brewed [...]

A New Year

Monday, January 4th, 2010

2010, no more saying “oh” when stating the year, you’re now forced into the lengthy “two thousand ten” or “twenty ten”, unless “ten” alone catches on, but this still sounds strange, childish, trendy, and annoying to these stubborn ears. Why does 97,98,99 sound soothing while 10 sounds like an infant crying in the airline seat [...]

A little sour blending

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Well living in a small house and homebrewing can be a claustrophobic situation, 25 gallons in carboys, 30+ gallons in bottles, random one gallon experiments scattered about in a dizzying display like panic stricken fruit flies. I figured it was about time to get some of these homebrewed sours bottled and some of this clutter [...]