Brewed: 10/23/2008 Knowing that the fam was getting together on Thanksgiving, I thought it might be a hoot to have some good old fashioned Pumpkin Ale, not just something with some pumpkin pie spices in it, but a real honest to goodness made with some real live pumpkin ale. I located a tasty looking recipe …
Category Archives: Handcrafted Ales
T-9: Inklings Ale
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams used to meet in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford. They’d share a pint and conversation about their literary works, theology, or whatever other ideas tickled their fancy. Shortly after beginning this new hobby of homebrewing, I got it into my head that it would be cool …
Not dark but dim
Regular followers of this site may remember my logs of homebrewed adventure from last summer. Those logs took me up to batch T-8. Then…nothing. No posts to the site. That doesn’t mean that I’ve been idle. It just means that for any number of various reasons (laziness, lack of energy, forgetfullness, disappointment) I haven’t posted …
MMM mmm gooood
Over at Basic Brewing they had a podcast about “marketing” homebrewed ales to folks who might not necessarily be open to the idea. Turns out I was already planning one of their top ideas. Last Saturday night, we had about 10-12 folks over to the house for a blind tasting of six pale ales. We …
T8: Simcoe Pale Ale
I was pretty excited about batch 8. Besides being the last brew in the summer of Pale Ales, it was also going to be the first ale I was going to make according to my own original recipe. Sure, I’ve tweaked kits here and there in the past year, but I hadn’t actually started something …
T7: American IPA- Alpha King
The Morefields were visiting during the turn-over between batches, so Cindy got to see the entire brewing process, if in reverse. She helped me bottle T-6 and then got to brew T-7 with me. Since Cindy has developed quite a taste for hops, I chose G&G’s American IPA–Alpha King, which features 10–TEN!–hop additions. Almost 6 …
T6: American Pale Ale
Batch Six turned out to be a smooth as silk operation. I didn’t really have any concerns about the recipe itself since I was simply using the G&G American Pale Ale ingredient kit. I’ve said it before; I’ll say it again. G&G provide excellent service and excellent products; they are what a store should be. …
The Pale Summer
The Pale Summer May: English Pale Ale July 1: American Pale Ale July 14: American IPA August 12: Simcoe Pale Ale Ever have one of those times when you complete a series of tasks or perhaps go through a period of time, look back on it, and realize there was a theme going through it, …
T6: American Pale Ale: The Plan
I’d purchased this ingredient kit when I thought I’d be able to reuse the yeast from T5. However, one must roll with the punches. Inspired by the difficulties of the last batch, I picked up some new equipment that I am keen to try out. Namely, an aerator, a stick-on thermometer, an auto-siphon, and a …
T5: Limping Dog Pale Ale
My fifth batch of homebrew turned into something of an Odyssey: what should have been a short two-week proceeding stretched out into two months of bother. What follows is something of a journal of that odyssey. 5/3 What with the Grand Cru and Porter in the cellar, I think I need something normal-ish, so I …
