Tag: Homebrew

Red Currants

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I beat the birds to them and survived a full on mosquito invasion in order to pick 3 lbs of my red currants.

The last time I managed to get some I added them to some white wine and it really came out nice.
This year I wanna do a beer with them. Not sure on the style yet. It would have to be something light. The flavor of these red ones is really delicate unlike the black variety which can stand up to more things.
I’m not even sure I wanna go the wheat route, the wheat may cover alot of what the currants would be doing.
A Blonde maybe good. Maybe the sourness these will give may get it heading to some sort of Goze?
Have a few things to look at I guess.

The Beet Saga

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The beet Saison was released this past Friday at Copper State Brewing. 


For this Wort challenge, Copper State made a huge batch of wort, then the local homebrewers were each given enough to make a 5 gallon batch. We could do anything or add anything to the wort to make our beer, Then 4 weeks later the local pro brewers picked the best of the bunch. The winning recipe was to be made and served at Copper State Brewing

My beet Saison was picked as the winner!
I got to go to Copper State and brew it on their system a few weeks ago.  It was fun to get to brew something on a bigger scale, and work on pro equipment.

I had not had a chance to get down there and check on it before it was released, so I was just as surprised at how it turned out as everyone else.

It was just as good as the first small batch! If you can get down there, let me know what you think of it…. Cheers!

What’s to come

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Since I am restarting and revamping this 10 year old blog, I thought maybe a  re-introduction would be a good idea.

I am a homebrewer. Been at it for nearly 30 years. I’ve learned a lot in that time.

My actual brewing process has changed very little since I first started. In fact I still have and use some of my original equipment.

Basic techniques and principles don’t really change, but the means to get there sometimes do.

Now days there seems to be a bigger push for complete automation, but I still love the process. I want to control the beers creation, so I am a bit more hands on than most because I think that is the best way to understand what is going on and why. That is how you become a better brewer.

I will admit that I am slowing down in production now days. Twice a week brewing has turned in to twice a month brewing. And 5 gallon batches have mostly turned into 3 gallon batches.

This also means I have more time for editorials, education pieces, and maybe some outside the brewery interviews of other homebrewers and their specialties.

Plus just in the 10 years this blog has been around quite a few things have changed in media and social tech. So I should probably go back into the vault of posts and re-examine them for updates, corrections or just filling in of the blanks.

In other words.. there will be a lot more content in various forms showing up in the near future.

As always.. stay tuned.