As the summer lion overcomes the winter bull, the brewer turns his mind to the joyful high time of the year.
Homebrewing
On Clones, Colour and Cassonade
One of my Pursuit of Abbeyness XII brew-day posts received a spike of traffic from the Homebrew Talk forum. I went and eavesdropped on the discussion.
Brew Day!… “My Cherry Amour”
My first attempt at a fruit beer had me grappling with a mathematical formula and a lot of questions.
“Memento Mori”: Another Lesson in Serendipity
If you stumble blindly and incompetently into your brewing masterpiece, will you ever be able to revisit that triumph?
Brew Day!… “Espress Yourself”
A coffee-bean stout saw me put two new bits of kit from Speidel to work: the Kellermeister conical fermenter and the Braumeister stainless steel wort chiller.
Sais Who?
An encounter with Mark Tranter, founder of the Saison-specialist Burning Sky Brewery, coincides with a homebrewed Grisette, inspiring some reflections on these rough-and-ready, Belgian workers’ ales.
Brew Day! … “Pursuit of Abbeyness XII”
With an odd 3.7kg of Pilsner malt in my cellar and a three-month-old Wyeast 1762 Belgian Abbey II in my fridge, it was time to brew up a small portion of the beer style I return to most often - the Strong, Dark Abbey Ale.
