It was a lucky ale with EXP 5256; and though the beer was rather flat, I still had a draft. I took this photograph.
I kegged an IPA today, oh boy
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Tag Archives: hops
Polaris, polarization
The recent brew day with its test-drive of Polaris – and subsequent comments from several of you citizens – got me thinking about hop varieties that don’t have a gray area between love and hate. Continue reading
QPA: update
Since we last talked about it, the main batch of Quotidian Pale Ale has been brewed, fermented, dry-hopped, and very recently packaged. What we’re looking at here is a glass of the little one gallon pilot/yeast starter. Continue reading
prep day: Quotidian Pale Ale
Back in my day, when we had a gold-to-amber colored hoppy ale that was about 4.5% abv, we didn’t call it Session IPA. We called it “pale ale.” It was bitter but balanced, reasonable about its alcohol content, and it smelled like grapefruit and pine trees and cat piss … and we liked it that way. Continue reading
prep day: nerds up, temps down
Czech pilsner: the OG single malt-single hop beer. It’s caramelly, it’s malty, it’s hoppy, it’s a lager but it’s got some yeast character; it’s demanding to brew but it’s so, so easy to drink. It’s been too long since I’ve made one. Continue reading
Hack & Slash XPA: Mosaic Edition
Here it is, the promised follow-up on the brew day with Jake Keeler and the artist formerly known as HBC 369. Continue reading
TMBR: Schl. Wolfenstein Dunkel
Flashback to prep day. Here’s the recipe: Continue reading
on Minnesota hops
A reader posted this question to the “About” page of this blog:
I’m curious about your thoughts of the hops industry, or lack thereof in MN. It seems that there are breweries opening every month, but virtually no one in MN is growing hops at even a semi-commercial scale. Do you think this is a needed industry in MN, and do you think that the local brewers would prefer to brew with locally sourced hops?
… and as I’ve written and rewritten my thoughts on this, the response turned into something that needed more than a one-paragraph reply to a thread on a different topic. Continue reading
flavor installation in your mouth gallery
Just a peach of a brew session today with Mr. Jake Keeler, and the boiler is soaking in the PBW as I type. Writeup and tasting notes to follow, but first a word about our first time out with Mosaic hops:
They’re real nice. Continue reading
save the date
Dig this: Doppelbock brew day on December 21, the end of this age of the earth by the Mayan’s long count calendar, the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, the day when perhaps the northern soul most needs a bock. Brewed too late, or right on time? Continue reading
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