Hall of Beers

So the other night I went to an O.A.R concert with Action Jackson. I knew nothing of O.A.R. other than that “crazy game of poker” song, which is just fantastic… which always makes me thinking of a someone starting a fist fight and flipping up the poker table for some reason. Anyway, since I didn’t […]

Gather round children, for I come bearing words of encouragement, rather than disgrace (reference my Apocalypse post of two months ago). As we speak (or rather, as you read the words I previously typed… previous, that is, to right now! Right… NOW!), my freshly-brewed Dunkelweizen is busily bubbling away in the coat closet. I wanted […]

I can’t quite muster the courage to effectively write this post. Last night, at approximately 0230 PST, a loud, wet sort of pop announced the end of a hefeweizen that had barely begun. Brewed on Friday, the OG was solid at 1.042, the color was an even, red earthy base with a mighty amber froth. Hell, […]

I can’t believe it. I can’t f%&#ing believe it. I can’t F%&#ING BELIEVE IT!!! They all blew. THEY ALL BLEW! THE WHOLE G%#DAMN CABINET!!!
It is quite possible that I have discovered a source of energy that is renewable, organic, has the potential to free us from the grip of foreign oil, and will get you drunk. […]

After 13 days of uncertainty after bottling, I finally cracked this sergeant’s homebrewed IPA. Thank God all is well. Review to come!

Good afternoon, beervolk. Good? GOOD!? What’s so GOOD about it!? My stout… is… is… it’s stuck!!! That’s right I—Captain Beer—have a stuck fermentation! Oh, the humanity!
Did I shock the yeast when I pitched it? The wort seemed cool enough… did bacteria infect my precious fermenter? Oh dammit… dammit.
Anyway, I think I’m going to be OK… […]

Friends, this weekend we brew our first dark brau* and good ‘ol Captain Beer is fired up about it. Our Belgian Wit came out wild and great, because we took the recipe and went nuts. This time? Lemme tell ya… I… like… may also be experimental. Dark beers should be more prevalent than they are. […]

My birthday’s in five short months!!!
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Every Christmas I like to enjoy a few Strongbow Ciders. I have always appreciated the crisp, not-to-sweet taste of Strongbow over it’s cider competition. Now, the closest you can really get is Blackthorne, which I have never seen in a bottle- only on tap. So when I went to my local neighborhood Publix to pick up my holiday […]

You never think it will happen to you. Sure, there’s the occasional boilover, the incidental spillage during bottling, the random skunky beer. All risks that are inherent to the homebrewing trade. But until last night, I’d never experienced the worst of them all… the catastrophic beerplosion.
Now, I’ll admit I was asking for this one. […]