This past weekend I celebrated Fall Break by asking Ted to join me on a quick brewery/disc golf tour of southwest Michigan. We visited New Holland Brewing Company in Holland, MI as well as Founders Brewing in Grand Rapids. In between, we shot up to Silver Lake, a place I hadn’t been since high school. …
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T-18 Big Head Irish Red
Brew Date:9/20/2008 Last Fall I was examining my brewing palate and realized I’d not done an Irish Red. Why not? I like Irish Reds. I’ve purchased Irish Reds. Why haven’t I made an Irish Red? At the same time, I was wanting to branch out a bit on my recipe sourcing. Don’t get me wrong. …
T-16 Yellow Rose of Amarillo Pale Ale
As I pondered a hot Midwestern summer, I thought it’d be fun to make a light, refreshing pale ale that I could take to cookouts and what not that people would actually drink. I’d also been hearing some raves about Amarillo hops, and, with the hop shortage on, I was surprised to score some at …
T-15 Inklings Ale (2nd attempt)
For an explanation of the origin of this ale, see the entry for the first attempt. A few batches on now from last year’s Inklings Ale debacle, I thought I’d tackle the recipe again and bring some to the Glen for the Thomas Parker Society. The CAMRA recipe calls for some Diastatic Malt Extract and …
T-14 Albino Amber
Brewed 2/23/2008 On one of my online shopping excursions to The Grape and Granary, their ingredient kit for “American Amber” caught my attention. After the Brown ale experiment, I’d decided I wanted to go Red. I fiddled around with BeerSmith a while, but was never really satisfied with what I was designing. Then I saw …
T-13 Brown Fox
The Brown Fox certainly proved to be quite the wily beast. Not only did it start out as one thing and end up another, it continued to morph in the bottle from a barely acceptable brew to something that has been something of a crowd pleaser. My intention with Brown Fox had been to develop …
T-12 Simcoe Pale Ale 2
Brewed 2/9/2008 My summer experiment with Simcoe hops was so successful that I thought repeating it would be in the best interests of science. You know, that whole repeatable results canard of which they’re so fond. Of course, I can’t just do exactly the same thing. For one thing, I’ve added the partial mash to …
Glen 2008: Day 4
Ah, the free day. A good idea. After Wednesday’s richness and fullness (did I mention I had my poems critiqued on Wednesday), everyone’s a bit gassed and needs a breather. I spent most of the day wrestling with MS Word to get Sherry’s manuscript ready for the publisher. She felt horrible about needing the help …
T-11 Oatmeal Stout
Brewed December 14, 2007. After two failed batches, I thoroughly cleaned all equipment, got some fresh yeast, and procured an ingredient kit from Grape and Granary. Let’s get back on solid ground, I said. Having had a great summer of pale ales, I wanted something different, so here we are at an oatmeal stout. Besides, …
