Posts Tagged beer
Friday September Canadian Ale
Thanks the goodness for the days of vacationing. Yay. Made me some beer today. Yup. Beer. Mmmm nothing like making your own beer. It’s satisfying. In an artisanal way. Alice Cooper is really cool. I’m just now watching “Suck,” a nice Canadian film. Good stuff. “You drank the guy,” is pretty-much the best quote from […]
Happy Little Balls of Hops
What’d’ya know: go away for a week and out pop these lovely looking little hops balls. I suppose it’s getting time to read through that Hops Manual and learn what I ought to be doing here.
Verdict: Batch the Seconde
After following the directions from the good folks at Cooper’s, I’ve opened and tried the first two beers of my second batch. I brewed this on July 1st — Canada Day — and bottled it on July 9th. I opened the first bottle on July 16 and the second on July 17. The beer has […]
My Hops, They Begin the Flower
Looks like one of the hops plants — the Hollertauer, I believe — is going to start flowering. The other — the Nugget plant — was unjustly trodden upon by an errant squirrel foot and broken before its time. I also spotted a mature plant in the backyard of a neighbour. Maybe I’ll be able […]
Bottling Day: Second Batch, Real Ale
Again, another great use of a vacation day. It started off pouring rain outside, a cathartic release to a week-long, oppressive heatwave. So, I was happy to spend some time in the basement transferring the brew from the primary fermenter into secondary fermentation in the bottles. I cleaned and washed all the equipment with water […]