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 …
Category Archives: Food
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, …
T-10 Pumpkin Ale
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 …
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 …
Little Things
Pie and coffee This morning I sit here drinking stale coffee and eating bad pie. And I’m happy. The coffee, while stale, started out as good coffee a few days ago. And by good I mean freshly ground, properly stored, french press brewed Garuda Blend coffee from San Francisco’s Peet’s Coffee. Sure, two or three …
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 …
Thoughts of NOLA
This morning I was sitting in my house in Tiffin, OH at the dining room table, stacks of papers on three sides, dirty dishes in the sink staring at me from across the room, more items languishing on the breakfast bar inbetween. While eating my peanut butter toast, I was reading Henri Nouwen’s _The Return …
