I have moved away from naming my brews unless it is a recipe I will repeat which has not been very many. This beer was an exception since hours after ending my brew day my wife, niece and grand niece (who were staying at our house for a while) discovered lice. What I thought was [...]
The first in my English Beer ‘series’ I’ll be producing this summer. This is a cross between a Brewing Classic Styles and a recipe off of Homebrewtalk, so my own I guess. I’ve decided on a ‘series’ of English brews since I had picked up WLP-022 Essex Ale ‘platinum series’ yeast that I need to [...]
I made a order with Brew Brothers Homebrew shop in Beaverton which is a bit out of town, so for $5 they deliver once a week to a nice brewpub in town, H.U.B – Hopworks Urban Brewery. Since I ordered a 50lb bag of two-row I decided it was more than worth it to meet [...]
I put together a Cranberry Mead this last December (2012) so I could have something ready to go come Thanksgiving 2013. I envisioned something that had the slight sour tartness of cranberries with the red or pink color to match. I think I will have to come up with another plan. My 1 gallon ‘pilot’ [...]
Today I took a sample of my pasteurized Rice Wine and compared it to the little bit of Rice Wine that I did not pasteurize. In the refrigerator the non pasteurized sample looked much clearer than the pasteurized but by the time I poured it out to my sample glass, I had stirred up enough white rice [...]
So I noticed some talk of Chinese Rice Wine over at Homebrewtalk a while back and thought it would be a nice new experiment in ‘all things fermentable’. It looks fairly easy, hands off, and I did enjoy some sake recently (this isn’t sake technically), so wanted to see if I could make something similar, [...]
Today I took a little time to take care of my Elderberry Wine and Cherry Mead. The post I had on the Elderberry Wine was lost when I accidentally erased my website a few days ago… I still pay the price. The Cherry Mead had already been stabilized with a little sweetness left, but I’m [...]
Well, I have read that when I bend down my freezer in my new small fridge as part of my kegerator conversion that the fridge will freeze everything up as all the cooling for the fridge is via the freezer bottom plate (that will get bent down). This necessitated an external thermostat so instead of buying a [...]
I apparently blew up my blog trying to load a picture app at www.icrafthomebrew.com/pics/ and my latest backup didn’t restore properly… I guess I will manually backup myself weekly from now on. I do have my backup from several weeks ago on my old website, so I stuck with that. I think I might have [...]
After seeing a post in /r/homebrewing subreddit a few days ago about homemade hop candy, I thought it was a great way to use up some ‘lose’ hops and see if there is a difference between the varieties in the candy. My first batch tonight was with cascade hops, a slight bitterness that follows once [...]
