Well, my homebrewing skills increased a little this weekend after I tried my hand at “all grain” brewing on Saturday and Sunday. All grain brewing uses malted grains (grains that have started the germination process and are then stopped) rather than malt extract (sugar syrup created from mashing malted grains). Using malted grains [...]

Well, you learn a few things along the way in life. One of the lessons I learned recently is that no matter how many beers you have had, it never makes sense to dump 1.5lbs of spent caramel malt (grain) down your sink drain. Even if you run 5 gallons of water down behind it, [...]

I am not dead…not yet anyway. I have been away from this place for a bit, but I am going to get back on the posting train here shortly. While I have to head out pretty soon, I wanted to say that I have started brewing again…and I love it. There have been a [...]