Is making a cordial really brewing?
Making cordials is often lumped in with brewing. Should it be? Is making a cordial, with modern restrictions and requirements, really a brewing activity? Why do people make cordials, anyway? [..]
Month: April 2012
Why compete in homebrewing: beer, wine, mead?
Last year a brewing chum asked me why I compete in homebrewing. He’s one of the most morose people I’ve ever met, so my first thought was that he was [..]
What kind of beer would a Hobbit drink? How about the Dwarves?
The Hobbit is coming out, none too soon! If a hobbit and thirteen thirsty dwarves turn up on your doorstep, what kind of beer should you have on hand? In [..]
Making beers to welcome the cast of The Hobbit home
I was joking online with bccmee, who runs a website, fan video site, YouTube channel, and more about the actor Richard Armitage, who’s playing Thorin Oakenshield in the upcoming The [..]
My cyser needs a Daddy! Or Mommy. Name it! Bragging rights!
What shall I call my very first cyser, in primary this very morning? I used a recipe that took a gold in last year’s AHA competition which sounded particularly appealing [..]
Passover: Are honey and grape wine kosher?
Talking with Lori Titus at The Bee Folks this morning (as I was picking up thirty pounds of buckwheat honey) she mentioned that their honey had been Star-K certified, and have [..]