We love being here for you, and we love supporting our neighbors and our community. A big part of that is the choice we make to shop local and often.
Here’s what we have in store for you this Nov. 30th:
*Due to contracts w/ certain vendors, we cannot extend the 20% discount to large equipment.
** Does include some large equipment, that we are not allowed to advertise here.
This beer is a Sherbert IPA. We don’t really know if that exists… but well… it does.
Lactose, oats, and a blend of our favorite European base malts provide a hint of bread, toast, & pastries, and a rich and full bodied mouthfeel.
A perverted amount of citrusy and fruity hops, but with low bitterness keep this beer drinkable and refreshing.
We’ve also created some special glassware for the occasion.
More details to come… but we’ll see you there!
Homebrew Competitions are a great way to receive feedback for improving your brewing techniques. The main function of a competition is to provide quality advice for making our favorite hobby all the more enjoyable.
Brewers sign up for each month using the links below, and drop off their beers in anonymous bottles. We review and score the beers based on brewing quality and style accuracy.
Many of our crew are certified beer judges through the BJCP, and/or Certified Cicerones. When needed, we will also use certified judges from our fantastic homebrew community.
It depends on the month. We have a different theme each month. Click the link below for more details, and to sign up!
Step 1. Complete a BJCP Bottle ID Form For Each Bottle – This is VERY important – we need to know what the beer is!
Step 2. Click the Competition Link(s) below to enter your beer and contact details.
August: Session IPA vs American Pale Ale
September: Cal Common/Marzen/Festbier
October: Saison vs Trappist Single
November: Fall & Winter Specialty Beers
December: Stout vs Porter
We were promised a wine extract kit from one of our main distributors. They were bragging about the quality you can get with very little practice. We asked for a Malbec and received it the following week.
This was so easy, we managed to produce 5 gallons of wine in between our 45 minute and 10 minute hop additions, and this was with us reading the instructions 3 times over. Future wines will be even quicker. Easiest double brew day ever.
The jury is still out on the taste, but here’s the low down on the day of. Accompanied by one of George’s new favorite things: a collage (he still needs practice).
1. Clean sanitize fermenter and a funnel.
2. Dissolve bentonite (a clarifier) in quart of warm water and add to fermenter.
3. Add wine extract. The less concentrated the extract, the more expensive the kit.
4. Rinse the emptied extract bag w warm water and add to fermenter.
5. Top off w water to 5 gal mark, stir vigorously, add yeast.
Done!
14 days later we added some more clarifiers and racked to secondary. Fred Brophy of a href=”http://Www.mashheads.com”Mash Heads/a recommends racking several times. We’ll probably do one more in a week, and bottle by day 45.
We’ll test it on Molly once it’s ready. And will post our thoughts. We’re thinking temp control on the next fermentation.
Cheers!
span class=”post_sig”From The Homebrewer’s phone. Please excuse any typos… We were focusing on the wort./span
