Category Archives: Beer

I am brewing again this weekend. Since there was an issue last time with the friendly bubbles not showing up (I really missed those bubbles), I decided that I would do some upgrades to my attachment for the Big Hose. … Continue reading →

As I prognosticated in my previous blog, I did tap some beer out of the bucket on Saturday to taste it. It looks nice. It smells like beer. It has an off flavor that I do not like, but I … Continue reading →

Disaster has struck! I had such high hopes for this beer. I did it by the book, but there were never any bubbles. None! No friendly bloops, or even any silly bblbllblbls. It just sat there and did nothing for … Continue reading →

I have started my Spring brewing again. We are almost out of the Honey Porter, so I need to get cracking if we are going to have beer for the Fall. If you recall a post made long ago, you … Continue reading →

Enough with the attempts at humor. I am back to beer. Yesterday I put up 5 gallons of my Amber Ale to ferment, but this time I did it differently. This time I am trying out the primary fermentation in … Continue reading →

The new beer is in the bottles. We got 50 bottles of beer out of this batch, and it didn’t taste sour and it didn’t get siphoned onto the floor (mostly). In fact, the bottling went very smoothly with minimal … Continue reading →

Today I managed to rack the beer from the primary fermenter to the secondary fermenter. That is technical beer jargon for siphoning the beer out of the nasty, crusty, jug that exploded…. into a nice, clean bottle so it can … Continue reading →