Golden Rye Sour Recipe
I spent the last month or so doing on-off experiments instead of really working on developing repeatable recipes. But I’m back in the saddle of recipes. Since bottling my sour brown ale, I’... Read More
Book Announcement: Wild Mead – Making Sour & Funky Meads
Hey everyone! Some of you may know I make a lot of sour and funky meads, and dish out lots of advice (even when unwarranted), on many of the homebrewing outlets online, such as Reddit, Homebrew Talk, ... Read More
Freeze Concentrated Root Beer Liqueur Experiment
So this is a weird one. A while back, I was gifted some root beer extract for making soda. I never got around to making the soda, as I’m not much of a soda drinker. So I got the crazy idea to ma... Read More
Making An All Grain “Kitchen Sink” Beer
The old clearance sale of beers. Sometimes known as cupboard beers, kitchen sink beers, yard sale beers, or any other term that signifies getting rid of your extra crap that you wouldn’t otherwi... Read More
Strawberry Cherry Melomel Tasting
This hydromel is fruity and bright, and really easy to make. It’s a simple 8.25% melomel that is fermented cleanly at a cool temp and then aged on strawberries and cherries until clear. I only g... Read More
Vienna Equinox SMaSH Beer
I’m not dead. In fact, I made some beer this week and have lots more beer I need to make, but that’s talk for another time. This time, I’ve got a SMaSH (single malt single hop) beer ... Read More
All Grain Blonde Ale Version Two
I recently got the opportunity to brew a version of my blonde ale for a co-worker’s wedding. In the original version, there were a few things that needed to be addressed with the recipe. For exa... Read More
Strawberry Cherry Melomel Mead
I brewed a hydromel a few months ago with the intent of adding something to it at some point, I just didn’t know at the time. The time came when some cherries my wife had bought started to show ... Read More