Earlier this year I wrote a post on my other site, I Grok Grog, about good beer music and reposted it here. Well I’d always intended to do it up as a full podcast but those take effort and time, time that could be better spent actually drinking and listening to music. But some of the … [Read more…]
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 totally … [Read more…]
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…]
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 needs … [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…]