Recreational Reading

Category: Brewing

  • Beer Recipe: 1492 IPA

    This is the recipe for my 1492 IPA, which is based on a kit IPA. It’s an extract beer, and at some point down the road I may modify it to become an all-grain beer. I wasn’t particularly concerned with gravity on the first batch of this beer, so I don’t have that info at…

  • 2012 Brewing Plans

    I was goofing around in Microsoft Project the other evening and decided to map out my various beers and meads that I was hoping to make. Given the limited amount of space that I have for fermentation in my apartment, I wanted to plan things out and determine how many 5 gallon glass carboy secondary…

  • Minion Brewing: 1492 IPA

    It may be Lent, and I may not be drinking (20 days to go!), but that certainly won’t stop me from making beer. Last weekend (March 10) my friend and I decided to brew a batch of beer. It was my turn to get the kit, so I went to the homebrew supply store and…

  • Fauxberon, adventure style

    One of my favorite summer beers is Oberon. Oberon Day is a day that I eagerly anticipate from about January 4 forward, since it marks more or less the end of winter and the promise of summer’s arrival. A week or so ago, I was thinking about this year’s Oberon day and how awesome it…

  • An Awesome Weekend

    Disclaimer: this is going to be a very, very long post. Friday I got the camera lens on my Evo fixed, so I can finally take clear pictures again. Take a peek… Before: my copy of Halo (which arrived a day late, by the way…way to go, Amazon) looking quite hazy. After: tasty chocolate covered…