I will say it now and I am sure I will say it again but honesty is the best policy as we go through the best journey together. Therefore, in the interest of honesty and just in case you didn't follow along closest enough to the last brew (which I doubt many of you did)... Continue Reading →
Radical Brewing Recipes, Tales & World Altering Meditations In a Glass Written By Randy Mosher As you may or may not have noticed our last homebrew just sort of ended. There was a seemingly successful brew day and the yeast got busy but then I didn't offer any further updates. Let's just say that the timing... Continue Reading →
Pale Ale Homebrew The Breakdown For those of you who aren't following us on Instagram (it's Hard12Brews - so if you're not going ahead and make that change), we want to let you know that the latest brew happened this past Sunday. This is the first major attempt at brewing a 5-gallon beer in the... Continue Reading →
Bring On The Next Beer It has been a while. In fact our last post about homebrewing was a little bit over a month ago. This was almost done on purpose, there hasn't been enough time lately to brew and more importantly we were busy gathering input and feedback from our friends on the first... Continue Reading →
Amber Ale - Homebrewed Expectations were not high but we were optimistic for the first five gallon homebrew. There were a lot of unknowns when it came to temperature control for the boil, cooling down the wort and bottling that much beer. In the end it was the best beer when it came to carbonation,... Continue Reading →
The Breakdown This past weekend as many of you know (if you aren’t following our Instagram you are missing out) we brewed our first 5 gallon batch of beer. In last week’s post we talked a lot about the potential concerns for brewing this larger batch. There was one issue that we didn’t even consider... Continue Reading →
Last month we focused on the essentials when it came to beer books. We recommended books that would tell you all you need to know about styles, their history and offer in most cases the proper food to pair with each. This month the book we are going to recommend takes a look at beer... Continue Reading →
We were very lucky to be spoiled over the holidays when it came to brewing equipment. We picked up a second one gallon kit and our first five gallon brew kit. We have plans - special plans that involve fruit for the one gallon kit but that's for another day. Today we are talking about... Continue Reading →
Porter Styles vary from American to English and from there the combinations of malts and additions to the brew are endless. For our homebrewed Porter review we are going to use the description from the box as a baseline. "A classic dark ale featuring specialty grains. A nice, hoppy character is balanced well against this... Continue Reading →
It's the moment of truth, did we learn anything from the first brew? Optimism was running high when I popped the top and it was beautifully carbonated, something we struggled with on the first attempt. Optimism turned to questions and reflection - Something went wrong. Visual: Gold with deep red hues, almost copper. Predominantly clear... Continue Reading →
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