Category Archives: Beer

I am brewing again. I went to the beer supply store this morning and procured the ingredients that I need to make a batch of Honey Porter. Then, immediately I started putting together the yeast starter. The starter needs to … Continue reading →

OK this is starting to crack me up. This morning I put up 55 bottles of beer (on the wall). After I put the bottles  in the crates I found a piece of glass on the chair where the crates … Continue reading →

This weekend we opened a couple of the October beers to enjoy with our subs. One of them was totally flat. No head. No bubbles. No nuthin’. Just flat. So I took a look at the bottle and found this. … Continue reading →

I think there’s something going on in that bucket. When I came home from work, it smelled like beer in the closet…. so I lifted up the cheap, plastic beer cup to see what is going on…. Ewww. Beer snot … Continue reading →

Since we are running out of my previous batch of Honey Porter, I started brewing a batch of beer today. If you remember last time, the Big Hose showed me no happy bubbles at all. I figured that all that … Continue reading →

It has been two weeks since I bottled my latest batch of beer, so I grabbed a bottle from the basement to see how it is coming along. In the bottle that I took at random, I found this: The … Continue reading →

Re: “still nothing going on in Dad’s Beer Bucket except for one drowned gnat.” from the April 11 post on my previous batch. Well this time, there are two drowned gnats, and I have a better camera, so you can … Continue reading →

I put up a new beer yesterday to ferment using my revised Big Hose airlock. There it is, all cozy in its blankies. Unfortunately, a day later there are still no happy bubbles. Nuthin’. Nada. Zip. Nichts. It is just … Continue reading →