Earlier in the year I talked about some goals for my homebrewing for 2013. A big one was how many times to brew this year. My goal for 2013 is to brew 6 times. I’ve gotten in 1 brew so…
Blog Archives
Happy New Beer
Ah, sweet new year. A month in to 2013, and with it come visions of the smells of brewing and the sounds of bottles opening. Oh wait, I keep forgetting that bottling is too hard for most of you. Just…
Tagged with: craft beer, eugene beer, eugene craft beer, eugene homebrew, homebrew
Posted in Craft Beer, Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Food and Cooking, Homebrew, Journal
Posted in Craft Beer, Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Food and Cooking, Homebrew, Journal
Homebrew: Ignore the instructions
It seemed so simple. I bottled half my brown ale straight-up (which turned out fine). I bottled the other half with hazelnut extract added to the bottling bucket. What I thought would be a passable cousin for Rogue’s Hazelnut Brown…
Hops harvest 2012
Hops. Oh bitter cones that give bite to balance malt, oh crazy-arse vines that grow so quickly they could be a Hitchcock movie! Third harvest This year marked the fourth year our Sterling hops have been in the ground, and…
Tagged with: eugene homebrew, growing hops, homebrew, homebrewing, hop harvest, hops, sterling hops
Posted in Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Food and Cooking, Homebrew
Posted in Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Food and Cooking, Homebrew
Homebrew: Lovntheyarden Brown Wheat Ale
You’d think I’d remember to take pictures of my homebrew I used to better about it, that’s for sure. Then again, when homebrewing meets parenting, I can live with forgetting to take some pictures of this latest batch. As this…
Homebrew: Jet Scharzweiss Ale
To brew a dark wheat beer Every year for Jodie’s birthday, she gets a 5-gallon batch of beer. After last year’s saison, her request this year was simple… but not: a beer dark in color, but light in flavor. Our…
New law makes Oregon homebrew fully legal again
Big thanks to the brewing community and the Oregon legislature Recent action in the Oregon House and Senate has corrected a 2010 legal oversight that temporarily held the transport of homebrew illegal in Oregon. Passage of SB 444 means homebrew…
Tagged with: craftbeer, eugene, homebrew, oregon
Posted in Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Food and Cooking, Homebrew
Posted in Eugene, Oregon & Pacific Northwest, Food and Cooking, Homebrew
Homebrew: Rucksack Stout
Nothing makes the world come clear like a pint of darkest beer. Based off Brooklyn Brewery Original Chocolate Stout Stouts and porters are the pinnacle of beer, my favorite styles, my most savored pints. Stout will cure all ills from…
