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 [...]
Tag Archives: IPA
My Chicago Craft Beer Week Marathon Schedule
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Dry Yeast
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 [...]
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Yeast Starter
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 [...]
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IPA Glazed Nuts
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 [...]
Carbonating Kegged Beer
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
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 [...]
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Interview with Half Acre Beer Company’s Gabriel Magliaro
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Surly Brewery Beer Porn
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 [...]
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