Cluster#$@& is now in bottles are ready to be sampled maybe next weekend for the next, more effective brewday. My early idea is to do another pale ale based around Simcoe, but we will see.
#001 cleared up extremely extremely well and has a very light golden color (oh no it looks like a millerwiser! haha). [...]
Archive for May, 2009
just finished bottling #001
Friday, May 29th, 2009Posted in tastings | 2 Comments »
fermentation friday: brewday joys & stresses
Thursday, May 28th, 2009I’m hopping on the homebrew-blog-talk-bandwagon here and throwing in my own $0.02 about the biggest joys and stresses of brewday. Granted I’ve had ONE brewday total to date so maybe this is more like my own $0.002…maybe this remind the veterans of their first time, oh yeah. You can check out more homebrewer’s thoughts at [...]
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brew #001: cluster#$%* pale ale
Sunday, May 24th, 2009Finally got the guts and time to whip together my first homebrew. Instead of doing a full 5 gallon batch as I had originally planned, I scaled down and did an ‘experimental’ one gallon batch. I approached it as a learning experience and definitely learned many valuable lessons on the way, even though my beer [...]
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growing hops: prep
Sunday, May 17th, 2009Yesterday Jim (the tough guy in the photo) and I dug up a huge chunk of my parents lawn to make way for my hops. This all came about after a conversation last week with my mom – the green thumb – about possibly doing this next year. To my surprise she suggested we [...]
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advice
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009My gear comes tomorrow. Stoked. In between hitting F5 on the FedEx page every 30 seconds I’ve been looking over ‘general advice’ threads on homebrew forums, reddit, etc. Here are some of the clutch quotes, musings:
You’re going to fuck up. Don’t let that scare you.
You have to drink beer while making beer.
Read Jim Palmers [...]
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getting started
Thursday, May 7th, 2009I’m not entirely sure when it dawned on me; in retrospect, I’m surprised it took so long to realize I needed to start homebrewing ASAP. When the last week of school wrapped up for me in March, unemployment loomed in the future. To keep my sanity I was determined to immerse myself in something, and [...]
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