This is a great article on how to clean off your yeast to reuse in your next batch of homebrew. This is one of several ways to drop your costs for making your delicious homebrew.
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Understanding Attenuation in Home Brewing
We recently brewed a maibock using Rogue’s Pacman yeast as distributed by wYeast that we picked up from the nice folks at Homebrewer’s Outpost. Today when we checked our gravity after about 5 days of fermenting we were a bit below our goal of 1.016, coming in at about 1.023. Knowing that PacMan yeast is [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional Tagged attenuation, charlie papazian, fermentation, gravity, homebrewers.com, homebrewtalk.com, Maibock, Pacman, Rogue, wYeast Leave a comment
20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer
Go here to read the whole comic by the Oatmeal.
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
My wife and I went over to Bluebird last night for a few beers to celebrate – I’m not sure – the ever grinding wheels of time as they continue to where down on the thinning teeth of our souls’ cogs, forcing us to move slow and want to move even slower? Yes, that’s probably [...]
Posted in Beer, Motorcycling, Review Tagged Bluebird, Chicago, Hot Chocolate, Jolly Pumpkin, La Roja, Michigan, Saison D'Epeautre Leave a comment
Beer Amongst the Belgiums
Tim Webb, probably the most prolific writer on Belgium Beers and author of Good Beer Guide Belgium , has a new TV series that is hopefully going to make it to a market near me (and you) sometime next year. Belgium Beer Boner… Engaged!
Posted in Beer, Event Tagged Beer Amongst the Belgiums, Good Beer Guide Belgium, Tim Webb Leave a comment
Ride Prophet 2009 Snowboard Reviewed
Snowboarding is not a cheap hobby, especially for an aspiring degenerate living in the flatlands of Illinois. For that and a myriad of other equally limp excuses I managed a 15 year hiatus between our daily hill bombings after school at 4 Lakes in Lisle and when my wife finally inspired me enough to get [...]
Posted in Gear, Review, Snowboarding Tagged 4 Lakes, Burton Air, Burton Triump, Ride Prophet, The House Leave a comment
Caffeinated Maple-Bacon Lollipops!
Maybe these will help me deal with the day side of my fucking insomnia. We invented the Maple Bacon Lollipop, and now we’ve improved it: we’ve made it the bacon-y equivalent of an energy drink, adding two cups worth of caffeine to the already time-tested wonder of organic, sustainably farmed bacon and delicious Vermont maple [...]
Posted in Grilling Tagged bacon, caffeinated maple-bacon lollypops, insomnia, lollyphile.com 1 Comment