Brewcommune

Yesterday, my friend Daniel invited some people over for a group mead making brewday. Daniel was able to acquire a large quantity of raw sage honey (refer to pic of bucket label). I saw Osskar make mead at the AHP anniversary party but I didn't really pay close enough attention to understand it myse...

My journey to Yellowstone continues but we made another stop at this little granite carving in the the background. Imagine not my face on the mountain top but the "Book." I'm not proud of myself in this picture:

Well, I'm drinking a first sample of a whiskey blend I had in my 3L oak barrel since I bought it at the fair. Again, it has regular Jack and Johnnie Walker Red for the past month. It still taste like average hooch with a bit of oak flavor. Nothing to write home about. These oak barrels do look nice ...

I also dry hop with hop pellets up to 6 oz in the secondary. I am starting to notice that I may just be using too much hop pellets for dry hopping without getting much more benefits. When I first started dry hopping, I thought it was the best thing since Pop Rocks. I would gradually increase the amo...

I do believe there is a "Beer for Boobs" event this Friday at Bootleggers to benefit breast cancer research. I was at the last one at the Bruery about a month ago to support my friend, Jess, who ran it. She lost her mother a few months ago to this God Awful disease. They sold a take home p...

The finished piece will hopefully resemble this: IMG_3625.JPG If man can carve a granite mountain into a piece of art, I know I can someday make good beer. IMG_3630.JPG Nearby, we stopped at "Bear Country" where wild animals like these albino wolves roamed caged free while we drove around ...

Continuing...(thanks brahn. I wasn't sure if this thread was going to be too self indulgent. It's really just a goof on my family who roped me into going on this bus trip and for those magazines I read when I was a kid where they held up their favorite magazine in order to get their faces published....

A quick brewday at my house today. My friend Tommy and his nephew, John with his girlfriend, Jasmine. IMG_5079.JPG Tommy is a friend from work who I took under my wing and is now on his 4th extract batch. Today was John's first time seeing how homebrewing works. He is a fan of good beer and is now i...