I wouldn’t say that I’m sick of brewing beer, per se, but the tasks that surround beer brewing are starting to get a little old.  For example, bottling.  And cleaning.  And cleaning.  And organizing.  I have a lot of bottles, and with my new all-grain system, a lot more equipment, and every time I want [...]

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My apologies for the sporadic updates.  It’s difficult for me to write about every beer I have, mostly since I have so many of them.  Nothing tremendously mind-blowing, alas.  I did come across a beer I had to pour out because I couldn’t drink it, but I swear, I gave it my best try.  Midnight [...]

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I had a bottle of Beer Valley Brewing’s “Highway to Ale” barleywine-style ale last night.  I wasn’t familiar with Beer Valley, but hey, 10.5% ABV always get my attention.  Plus, Highway to Ale?  Sounds like a song a cockney AC/DC would sing.  But I was impressed.  Very impressed.  It actually didn’t taste anything like a [...]

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I bottled my 10th and final batch of 2007 last night, and with my trusty brewing companion-slash-girlfriend’s help, things went much more smoothly than the last two times I bottled by myself.  I ended up with 23 22 oz. bottles (and one filled halfway up) and six 12 oz. bottles.  Since this is the Christmas [...]

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Here’s my first tip in the production of beer:
If you’re going to bottle beer, make sure you have enough bottles to do so.
I have to bottle two 5-gallon batches this week, and I wanted the second batch to be almost exclusively in 22 oz. bottles.  Well, plus a six-pack.  So when [...]

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I went to Wild Oats on Burnside yesterday to pick up some lunch and ingredients for dinner, and I also decided (as if it were ever in question) to grab a couple of 22 oz. bottles to have with dinner.
The first was Mongoose IPA from Hale’s Brewing Company.  I’m pretty sure I’ve had this before, [...]

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I bottled my 7th batch of homebrew last night, also the first batch that I bottled by myself.  Until last night, my trusty brewing companion and full-time girlfriend had been on hand to help me, but she was sadly unavailable to help this time.  I had purchased a bottle sanitizer and 90-bottle drying rack from [...]

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