Imported posts from defunct site I Grok Grog
I like beer. I like music. But for some reason, when you put the two together, it often turns out badly. Let’s face it, there are a lot of jackass beer songs out there. From that beer song that everybody claims is by Weird Al when you know it totally isn’t, to that bad metalcore … [Read more…]
Saturday the 24th, as I posted a while back, was the date for HOPS! Oktoberfest. Earlier in the week, the weather reports all predicted a nice sunny day, but as the week wore on, rain started creeping into the forecast. Friday evening, as I left work, it wasn’t looking too good. And sure enough, the … [Read more…]
I should start this post by apologizing for never following up on all those Iron Brewer posts. You can bet that if I’d won, I’d have been all over it, but alas I did not. Amy Gentry, a fine Northwestern Indiana homebrewer whom I met at Three Floyds to trade bottles in person and save … [Read more…]
You are probably sick of me going on and on about this Iron Brewer thing by now. Well I have good news for you. It’s coming to an end! The judges’ tasting was last night, and tonight is the contestants’ tasting and podcast. If you’re interested, you can follow here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/simplybeer (click the Batch 2 Round 6 … [Read more…]
My Iron Brewer entry, Turkish Delight EESB, has been in the bottle for 10 days now. I’ve been tasting it as it goes (my weakness, I know, but I love to taste the evolution of a beer from the raw product to the finished), and it’s been improving greatly in the bottle. Last night, I … [Read more…]
The Batch 2 Round 6 brewers names were officially announced in a post late last night on the Iron Brewer website Batch 2 Round 6 Brewers & Bios on the Iron Brewer website In other news, I’m going to be volunteering with my homebrew club at the Midwest Brewers Fest in Plainfield, IL in late August. … [Read more…]
It’s now been 11 days since I brewed my Iron Brewer entry. I’ve checked the gravity the last couple of days and it’s been pretty steady, within a couple points of where I imagined it would end up (and I was hoping it would finish a bit high as I’m looking for a bigger … [Read more…]
Yesterday I brewed my entry for Round 6 of Iron Brewer Batch 2. But let’s back up a minute. What’s Iron Brewer? Iron Brewer is a homebrew contest that I first read about last year and have been interested in participating in since the beginning. Due to some e-mail issues and schedule conflicts, I was never … [Read more…]
Beautiful. Brilliant. Badass, even. But what a waste. “The car will run on almost any bourbon, but she really purrs on Maker’s Mark” said Nilsson. Oh. Well maybe it’s not such a waste after all. /bourbonsnob Read about it on the Kegworks Blog. I heard about it via the Finch’s Beer Company twitter account: @FinchBeer.
Today is the Mexican version of St. Patrick’s Day, in which instead of wearing green and drinking cheap beer until you black out and pee on your neighbor’s dog, in America you wear whatever you feel like wearing but drink tequila until you vomit on the party host’s phone, something I haven’t done since I … [Read more…]