Date: November 2012
Wine Barrel Table: Give an old barrel a new life
MEMBERS ONLYIf you ever come across a discarded barrel . . . here is a great use for it. Get step by step instructions to build a table from a used wine barrel.
Crystallization: Forming the ice in your eisbock, baby
MEMBERS ONLYTo make a good eisbock (or any other kind of ice beer) it is helpful to have a good understanding of how ice crystals form, and to be able to effectively manage crystal formation within the beer.
Captured By Porches Brewing Co.
MEMBERS ONLYDear Replicator,My homebrewing partner recently brought me back a few bottles of local beers from Portland, Oregon that we can’t get in Colorado. One of the most interesting beers was a porter from an oddly named brewery, Captured by Porches. It was their Punctured by Corpses Undead Porter. I’m a fan of a good porter
Temperature Controllers
FREEOne of the most important processes to control in your homebrewery is the temperature of your wort and beer. Here is a rundown on temperature controllers.
Electric Homebrew: Go gas free
MEMBERS ONLYThere are more than a few ways to brew a beer, and one of those ways is with an all-electric homebrewery. if you are considering moving away from propane, take some advice from two dedicated all-electric homebrewers.
Jamil’s American Barleywine
MEMBERS ONLYThe balance of bittering versus malt sweetness should always be toward the bitter, but expect the beer to become more and more balanced as the beer ages and the bittering drops out.
American Barleywine: Aged in the USA
MEMBERS ONLYAmerican barleywine is rich and strong. It has a big malt flavor and aggressive hopping, but it still has a balance between the malt character and hop character.
Greg Noonan Memorial Wee Heavy
MEMBERS ONLY(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.083 FG = 1.019IBU = 29 SRM = 20 ABV = 8.3% Ingredients13.75 lbs. (6.2 kg) Maris Otter malt0.75 lbs. (0.34 kg) Carapils® malt0.25 lbs. (0.11) roast barley malt1.25 lbs. (0.6 kg) Munich malt0.2 lbs. (91 g) Belgian Special B0.5 oz./14 g Magnum whole hops (60 min.)0.33 oz./9.4 g Goldings
Poe’s Boston Bitter
MEMBERS ONLY“Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber through the chambers of my brain. Quaintest thoughts – queerest fancies, come to life and fade away: What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Old Cthulhiar (a.k.a. Very Old And Very Peculiar)
MEMBERS ONLY(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.078 FG = 1.017IBU = 41 SRM = 32 ABV = 7.8% Ingredients13 lbs. (5.9 kg) British pale ale malt8.0 oz. (0.23 kg) crystal malt (60 °L)2.0 oz. (57 g) crystal malt (120 °L)5.0 oz. (0.14 kg) aromatic malt3.0 oz. (85 g) chocolate malt2.0 oz. (57 g) black malt3.0 oz.
Proper Racking Techniques
MEMBERS ONLYFortunately for homebrewers there are convenient ways to move beer around without ruining your homebrewed suds with the ill effects associated with oxygen. As you mention in your question, one handy method to help reduce oxygen pick-up during racking is by using carbon dioxide as a blanketing gas. While this method is handy, it does