As Promised here
Here are some pics of my hops - looks like I have about another week of ripening to go.

My Dad is telling me that I have a bumper hop harvest on his allotment this year - I haven't been down to look at it yet ( Read more... )

Check it out, The White House blog has posted their White House beer recipes!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe

I know what you're thinking: extract?Hey, I haven't moved to all-grain myself so I'm not ( Read more... )

Hi everyone!

A friend of mine alerted me to this event, so I had to share.

http://blog.galveston.com/what-to-do/brewmasters-international-beer-festival-returns-labor-day-weekend/

HA four-day beer extravanganza beginning Friday, August 31 and going until Monday, September 3 (Labor Day) at Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas. More information on tickets ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any good spent grain recipes?
I've got a pretty good basic bread recipe and we also trade it with our friends' chickens in return for eggs, but please let me know if you have any other great ideas.

Slightly off topic due to the byproduct aspect, but hopefully applicable enough!

I don't know how I missed the first article last year, but this is pretty cool:

• Obama To Serve More Home-Brewed Beer At White House
• President Obama's Tour Bus Rolls With White House Home Brew

I do wonder who is behind it, as I don't imagine the POTUS is spending his time sanitizing equipment and watching the wort.

So while watching my latest batch bubble away just now I had a thought ( Read more... )

Today we are making a fruit mead for the first time. Multiple recipes online direct the maker to boil the honey in water, but then add fruit once the mead has cooled down, at the start of the fermenting process ( Read more... )

So I just thought I would share my latest experiment ( Read more... )

On this day, in 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified. Lift your glasses, fellow homebrewers, to the end of Prohibition!