This year was my fourth time attending HomeBrew Con, and third year straight starting with San Diego 2015. This is a long read and I tried to break it up into sections that talk about specific things, so if you’re interested in hearing about only specific parts of the weekend you can skip around. I’ve … [Read more…]
Adventures in Homebrewing often has 15 gallon FEW Spirits barrels in their Ann Arbor store taunting me, calling to me to buy them. I’ve reluctantly managed to resist the temptation telling myself “one day…”. Well, Adventures sent out a “spring cleaning” sale email a few weeks ago and I opened it to browse just in case … [Read more…]
I recently made a couple of beers modeled after an English strong bitter, though neither would be considered conventional for the style. One was the base recipe from my Burton Ale, which I previously wrote about, and the other is my Rye, Bitte recipe, which is a second attempt that had hopping changes after the first came out … [Read more…]
I’ve decided I need to enter more competitions. I think my beer is good, I often have a lot of it available, so why not see if I can win some awards? I ended up entering four beers and a cider in the 2016 Michigan Beer Cup. The beers I entered were my Mild, Golden Ale, … [Read more…]
I finally sat down this week to take the test to become a Certified Beer Server, and passed with flying colours. This is merely a fairly small step towards my goal of becoming a Cicerone and BJCP certified judge, but it is still the necessary first step! So I’ll throw myself a tiny, little party for being able to … [Read more…]
I posted this a while ago to /r/homebrewing, and figured I’d post it up here as well. Minor changes were made as needed. Disclaimer I want everyone to know up front that I do not want to discourage experimentation or making something you like to drink. All I want to do is clarify what a shandy actually is … [Read more…]