Tag Archives: homebrew

Dark beers

Posted on March 27, 2010 by myiphone

After a full day working on the chicken run (fence almost completes) and coop (just needs doors and roof shingles) it seemed like a good reason to pop open some special beers: two bourbon barrel aged and two chocolate/coffee porters. … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Espresso Stout

Posted on December 20, 2009 by tpepper

Today I’ve moved our fourth batch of chocolate stout into its secondary fermentation. The first batch was more of a porter. The second was solid, especially after about 10months of bottle conditioning. The third batch was excellent from the beginning, … Continue reading →

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Spring beer brewing finally done

Posted on April 25, 2009 by tpepper

We bottle the chocolate stout last night and racked the bitter over into a keg. Both sampled quite well. My benchmark tends to be if room temperature and flat tastes good then cold and carbonated will also. And both of … Continue reading →

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Some vines for the back fence

Posted on April 15, 2009 by tpepper

Today I took a break from work and planted the hops. I still need to rig up something for it to climb on, but in the meantime it is in the ground and will hopefully take. It’ll be really interesting … Continue reading →

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Hops rhizomes

Posted on April 12, 2009 by tpepper

Some time back Madi carpooled with her school/soccer friend Amy and when she was dropped off we ended up chatting homebrewing with Amy’s mom and she mentioned they grew hops. This morning the two of them were texting and it … Continue reading →

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Spring Beers

Posted on April 9, 2009 by tpepper

We’ve got 20gallons of beer fermenting at the moment. There’s a Czech style lager cooling in the crawlspace in its long secondary fermentation, which will end any week now. And in the image, from left to right, is our Scotch … Continue reading →

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Zwickelmania

Posted on February 15, 2009 by tpepper

I learned a new word in German yesterday…”Zwickel”. Apparently that’s a spigot, in particular on the bottom of a brewing cask used for sampling beer. The local wineries have twice yearly open houses that seem to draw crowds well. On … Continue reading →

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