For the post-event update, click here. On November 13th I participated in brew session at Arbor Brewing Company‘s Ypsilanti location to make a beer for a semi-regular event/competition called Rat Fest. The goal is to come up with something off the wall, yet enjoyable, and you brew enough to fill couple of 5 gal kegs on … [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…]
It’s time to make a wheat beer, something I’ve not done outside of my Dunkeweizen. This beer will be brewed for a club competition involving honey, and is modeled on an old English style, West Country, or Devon, White Ale.
I’m getting on my soapbox again with this post, and it seems my opinion isn’t the most popular, but I really don’t understand how a Black IPA can be a thing. Not every hoppy beer has to be an IPA!
This the second post on my issues with my first sour beer and details how I plan to fix it. It wont be a quick process, but at this point I am confident that I have plan to turn this beer around and make it something enjoyable.
I’m ramping up the brewing schedule prior to HomebrewCon. I’m bringing at least two beers to serve on club night, and generally need to refill my almost depleted pipeline of brews.
After waiting a year for my first sour beer, I have run into some trouble, mainly that my beer is not at all sour! This post enumerates the problems, and a follow up post will detail the possible fixes.
My first year entering the National Homebrew Competition went well with my Burton Ale advancing after taking second place in Category 22, Strong Ale.
Tasting notes from my Golden Ale, which was my first ever ‘hoppy’ beer! This is also the first time I am using Golden Naked Oats in a beer, and it won’t be the last.
Tasting notes for my Burton Ale, brewed in May 2015, aged and then served as a winter warmer. The beer underwent a 4 hour boil.