Tag Archives: IPA

My Chicago Craft Beer Week Marathon Schedule

By brian | Published: May 9, 2011

Here’s all the events I’m planning on hitting for Chicago Craft Beer Week. I am very excited for this. My liver, on the other hand, is trying desperately to back away from me. MAY 19 Firestone Walker Guest Tap Take Over (Revolution) – Because of the Collaboration brew between Firestone Walker and Revolution Brewing Dos [...]

Posted in Beer, Event | Also tagged 3 Floyd's, Chicago Craft Beer Week, Disc Golf, Firestone Walker, Half Acre, Revolution, Rock Bottom, Stone | 1 Comment

Dry Yeast

By brian | Published: January 28, 2010

So we made our 3rd and what appears to be our most successful batch of our IPA on Monday evening. The entire process went incredibly smoothly, from mash to sparge to pitching and it seems the few variables we shifted were the right ones producing a yield we were hoping for. Our 2nd batch of [...]

Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes | Also tagged AHA, Brew & Grow, dry yeast, homebrewtalk.com, howtohomebrew.com, slap pack | 1 Comment

Yeast Starter

By brian | Published: December 4, 2009

So I tried our IPA (a very loose Bell’s Two Hearted Clone) and it’s just OK. It’s not fully carbonated yet so I’m sure that will improve it’s flavor a bit, but the real issue is that it’s real thin, way too bitter (even for me), and there’s a similar, very subtle flavor in there [...]

Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes, Review | Also tagged Bell's Two Hearted, Cascade, Centenniel, Chicago, English Bitter, Freshops.com, Half Acre Daisy Cutter, White Labs Yeast, wYeast, yeast starter | Leave a comment

IPA Glazed Nuts

By brian | Published: December 3, 2009

I pulled this recipe from part of another recipe in issue #33 of BeerAdvocate. It’s super easy and real effective. 1 cup raw nuts 1 cup powdered sugar 1 tsp salt 2 tsp IPA Whisk the sugar, salt and IPA together into an opaque syrup. Add the nuts and stir well. Place the nuts on [...]

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Carbonating Kegged Beer

By brian | Published: December 1, 2009

We’ll be kegging our first batch of IPA later this week so I’ve been doing some research on how to properly carbonate kegged homebrew. Apparently, you can do it the same way that you would a bottled beer but with about half the dextrose you would use for bottling (so about 1/3 cup). However, this [...]

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Dry Hopping

By brian | Published: November 12, 2009

We’re brewing a Bell’s Two Hearted Clone this weekend for our second batch of beer. The thought on this was that with a clone we’ll have something to compare the final product to and, hopefully, have a better idea of what we are doing well and what we’re doing, well, not so well. Not to [...]

Posted in Beer, Instructional | Also tagged beertools.com, Bell's, boomchugalug.com, clone, dry hoping, Homebrewing, Two Hearted | Leave a comment

Interview with Half Acre Beer Company’s Gabriel Magliaro

By brian | Published: September 28, 2009

Posted in Beer | Also tagged Brews Not Bombs, Chicago, Colorado, Daisy Cutter, Ellie's, Goose Island, Half Acre Beer Company, Metropolitan, Surly Furious, Two Brothers | 3 Comments

Surly Brewery Beer Porn

By brian | Published: September 18, 2009

If these videos of the guys from the Surly Brewing Company dumping 50lbs of fresh hops into a kettle for the brewing of a new, limited run, wet-hop IPA gets you hot, then you are definitely a beer geek. And most likely an alcoholic, too. “1400 pounds of fresh hops picked from the vine, put [...]

Posted in Beer | Also tagged beer geek, Surly Brewing Company, Surly Fest, twin cities, wet-hop | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: IPA

My Chicago Craft Beer Week Marathon Schedule

Dry Yeast

Yeast Starter

IPA Glazed Nuts

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Interview with Half Acre Beer Company’s Gabriel Magliaro

Surly Brewery Beer Porn

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