crossposted from 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...
In case you didn’t know, I have a birthday coming up next week. “What do you get the guy who has, well, a lot of stuff, but also would like a lot more stuff?” you may be asking yourself. And you may be answering yourself, well, Jim’s TV just stopped working recently; maybe he...
I just had one of these: Shortly thereafter, I saw this guy: My recommendation: drink this beer.
A couple of them actually. Brewing, bottling, and watching men in shiny flying armor pummel the crap out of each other. No photos though. Hopefully I will document the next brew session photographically as well. Well the weekend was successful, though not without its hiccups. For example, when digging out my all-grain brewing...
I plan on brewing my second batch of the year, and my first all-grain batch in a few years. I’ve put together what I think will be a decent little recipe for an Oatmeal Stout. I tried making on once before but I tried it as an extract-based recipe, and you just can’t do...
Last weekend John, the Organizer for the Chicago Beer Meetup group on meetup.com, stepped down as organizer. I wasn’t sure if I was the man for the job, but I am definitely the man for the beer, so I stepped up. I am the new Organizer and I’ve scheduled my first event. Chicago Beer...
Brewing went well on Saturday and I’m very excited about this batch. I’m closing in on perfecting the brown ale, or at least the brown ale the way I want to drink it. Also, today is the 75th anniversary of 3.2% beer becoming legal again after Prohibition. Prohibition wasn’t officially repealed until later in...
So apparently the Fuggle hops, my absolute favorite, are one of the varieties affected by the hop shortage, about which I am fairly ignorant so I probably need to school myself. Anyway, I’ll be using Willamette instead… but I’ll be thinking of Fuggle.
I whipped up a recipe last night, and Saturday is looking good to get my first brewing session of 2008 under way. I’m behind, as my buddy Bob (who is holding all my equipment for ransom) has already got 2 batches aging. So I’ll be doing a simple English brown ale, which is my favorite...
I just got to work, opened the fridge to put my lunch in, and saw a 12-pack of beer. Not even very good beer, MGD I think. Is it so wrong that my first thought was “Hmmmmm, I could have a beer…” Yeah it probably is. Oh well, coffee is almost as good.
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