CTDR IIPA
I went off the reservation with batch number 6, beginning to craft my own recipes instead of trying to follow those posted by others, and also switching recipe detail records from digital to analog....
View Article1492: Conquest of Paradise Drinking Game
The latest version of Columbus Day is upon us, the celebration of the man who risked it all to sail for weeks into the unknown, searching for riches beyond reality. The results of discovering the new...
View ArticleElf Drinking Game
Elf is the gift that keeps on giving. The prospect of re-watching this film every Christmas gives me pause, because I tell myself I know exactly how the movie goes and why should I bother? Well,...
View Article2014 – Beer in Review
Starting in February, I ventured on a journey of discovery to learn how to brew beer at home. While the production of quality drinking games suffered during this time, valuable knowledge was gained and...
View ArticleRoscoe Brown Ale
As my new pup demolishes my laptop bag strap, the wooden doorstop, and part of my wrist, I regret not making this ale more of a son-of-a-bitch. Though the slight under-carbonation of the finished...
View ArticleTop Gun: Meg Ryan’s a Babe
First and foremost let’s put this out there first, Meg Ryan possibly has the best part in this movie. Not only does she make me want to be Goose (SPOILER ALERT: who dies 5/8th of the way through the...
View ArticleBelgian Golden Strong Ale
In honor of season 5 of Game of Thrones, I made a strong thrust back into homebrewing after a long hiatus, planning a Belgian to be drunk for the season finale. I named it Monday Eve to commemorate the...
View ArticleThanksgiving Beer Round-up
I made several beers in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday week, spent with the family Hood in Red Hook, NY. They most graciously offered productive feedback on the beers I’m about to describe....
View ArticleLicorice Ale
I like alternative beer. Over the Thanksgiving week, I was beyond #blessed to read Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers, a fantastic tome that really motivated me to experiment with a concept of what...
View ArticleGillian’s Coffee Porter
Winter is a time for dark beer. The roasty, thick, sweet, and nourishing porters/stouts/winter ales/et al. of the season bring about uplifting joy during the bitter cold weather. If you’re lucky enough...
View ArticleSolsagan IPA
I try to make an IPA or Pale Ale at least every 3rd or 4th brewing attempt, due to the insane popularity of the style. Smelling the various hop pellets and sampling the sidecar brew day IPAs for...
View Articlehomebrewsupply.com’s Baltic Porter
This Baltic Porter was the first lager I’ve brewed, and it turned out harder than expected to manage. The recipe and ingredients of this extract based recipe came from homebrewsupply.com, with a...
View ArticleMonday Eve II
Ahhh, Belgian beers. After reading Stan Hieronymus’s fantastic tome Brew Like a Monk, I was super-pumped to retry my Belgian Golden Strong Ale, created to be consumed at the Season 5 finale of Game of...
View ArticleJune-bock
What the hell is a Maibock? In short, it’s a 13th century dark-ish strong German lager. Lightly hopped with a sweet malt forward flavor, it’s brewed to celebrate the coming of spring and often...
View ArticleExtra Special Bitter
The English Bitter style of beer has a long, important history in humanities’ infatuation with fermented beverages. It’s essentially the same idea as a pale ale, but crafted with British malts, just...
View ArticleOatmeal IPA
I was listening to Craft Beer Radio’s recordings of the Savor conference in Washington DC last month and heard the concept of an oatmeal IPA during a salon led by “Dr.” Bill Sysak. I wanted to try a...
View ArticleWindsor Ale
I first learned about grains of paradise when viewing advertisements for Samuel Adams’ Summer Ale, and thought it was some sort of citrus spicing. Little did I know that this pepper rival was used: “to...
View ArticleButternut Squash Me, Bro
My brother is a wonderful person. I saw far too little of him this past summer, being a lake apart. However, I was overjoyed when he expressed interest in brewing a collaboration before venturing off...
View ArticleFalconer Beer
In the Middle Ages (or medieval period) from the 5th to 15th century, most people had to make their own alcohol from the hard wrought production of their small farm. Small barley plots were...
View ArticleSmoked Porter
Before the kiln became widely used for drying malt, most (if not all) malt had some elements of smoky flavors due to the drying of grain over an open flame heating source. German Rauchbier preserves...
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