
Cherry Blues
It’s going to be a tough year for cherry melomels, cherry wheat beer, cherry lambic, and (sob!) cherry pie. I have a cherry mel in secondary that needs a boost. [..]
It’s going to be a tough year for cherry melomels, cherry wheat beer, cherry lambic, and (sob!) cherry pie. I have a cherry mel in secondary that needs a boost. [..]
Baltimore Brew Festival hosted a Gruit Ale competition last night. I asked whether they would post their recipes on their website – don’t have an answer yet. One of the [..]
I am gearing up to try the White House Honey Porter recipe this weekend. There are a few mysteries in the two beer recipes released by the White House, which [..]
The White House has finally released the recipes for President Obama’s Honey Porter and Honey Ale, made with honey from the beehives on the South Lawn. The White House is [..]
I haz designed my first beer and I like it a lot! I’m pretty picky, mind you. This batch of beer is only about 4% and has an FG of [..]
This is my collection of books of modern how-to on beer and mead – all the books I currently have in my library plus a few. There are even a [..]
Most recently updated October 21, 2017 I am chagrined each time I see someone online asking whether there are period sources. You bet there are! Here is a running list of [..]
Of all places, Popular Mechanics has some very good beer articles. One selection of ten basic brewing recipes caught my eye. Trying to choose ten recipes that provide a decent [..]
Class notes from a class I taught in the Fall of 2008. Beer There are three primary ingredients in a beer: malted grain, hops, and water. Yeast is used to [..]
This is from the class handout for a Brewing 101: Everything You Needed To Know class I taught in Fall 2008. Nota bene: I don’t pasteurize my honey any more; [..]
This man is one of the best to-style brewers I’ve ever met. Posted by: “Carl Swan” tcni.java.jedi@gmail.com lordseamus@ymail.com …In that case, my basic English Mild Ale recipe is: 5lbs pale liquid [..]
Ingredients: 1 can (1.8kg) Nut Brown Ale Extract 2 lbs Plain Extra Light Dry Extract 1 lb Clover Honey .5 lb Carapils .5 lb Wheat Malt .5 lb Special B .5 [..]