Brew Log

I ordered an Oatmeal Stout recipe from Adventures in Homebrewing with Safale S-04 yeast. I've always liked Highland Brewing's Oatmeal Porter, so I thought I'd give it a go. Also, as an inspiration, Dan just brewed a stout recipe. His plan was to add a homemade cold press coffe...

Holy moly. This beer is explosive. Apparently, I didn't get my 80/20 priming sugar measurement correct, because this batch is so much more carbonated than the first gallon of Backyard Pilsner. It's like champagne. After a couple of days, I ended up moving the whole batch into...

Adventures in Homebrewing had a free shipping sale going on, so Dan and I went in together and bought two more fermenting buckets. It's a long wait from fermenting to bottling to enjoying. The rare optimistic outlook that I will in the future be able to enjoy them. Thus far, n...

Dan had previously brewed this Brewer's Best Summer Ale recipe with great and easy success. As with my previous batch, my intent was to do something interesting with the recipe. Code name: Fale All (lowered expectations Fall Ale) I set aside the bag of dried lemon and orange p...

Code name: Strawbeery After a week in secondary with strawberries, it was time to bottle the remaining four gallons. The strawberries had turned yellowish-gray and the beer was pink. Because of the problems with the butterfly capper the previous weekend, I designed and built "...

With a bit of nerves, I cracked open my first bottle of my first batch of beer. It didn't have much carbonation. What it did have, in abundance, was a medicinal smell. It smelled and tasted like I had fermented the IO Star sanitizer. Not great. Luckily, there is only one gallo...

I took the four glass fermenting jars and added varying amounts of strawberries that had soaked overnight in vodka. The idea was to later bottle the beer individually out of these jars and figure out which ratio of strawberries to beer tasted best. For some reason, final gravi...

The plan is to try making this plain ol' pilsner recipe a little more interesting. I'm going to split off some of the beer into secondary fermenter with added strawberries. I bought a five pound bag of frozen jumbo strawberries at the grocery store. To keep from introducing ba...