Last night I helped Jesse bottle the Pale Ale we brewed a couple weeks ago. Being our first all-grain batch, the efficiency was only around 61%. I took the hydro reading before we racked and the gravity had dropped to 1.010, .004 lower than expected. The Safale S-05 yeast did a number on the [...]
The Register Guard ran an article today about Hop Valley’s foray into bottling (HERE). In addition to the Elias Briggs Cream Ale that was announced a couple months ago, the brewery is also bottling their Natty Imperial Red and Alphadelic IPA.
Hmm…a big Northwest IPA and a Doubled-up Red, looks [...]
Correction: Oakshire’s Collaborative Evil-er will be available Monday March 15th at Belmont Station, not Friday Match 12th at Eastburn. Sorry for the mix-up and thank you Matt @ Oakshire for the catch.
Between various homebrew projects and Oakshire’s O’Dark:30 release, this is going to be a pretty busy beer week for me. I’ll be [...]
Last week I received a comment from Alex of Alex Brews, asking how my Belgian IPA turned out. I was going to point Alex to the post reviewing my brew, but realized that I’m a lazy sack and never actually typed one up. Since I’m down to the last 3 [...]
While I should have been outside enjoying the sun last Saturday, I was instead holed up in the kitchen all afternoon brewing a Witbier. This was only my second all-grain attempt, the first being the pale ale that I helped Jesse brew last week. The efficiency of our brew last week ended up around [...]