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Canning
I thought this deserved it’s own post… I recently made the Stout BBQ Sauce from the Homebrew Chef‘s website, and decided to make enough to be able to can some for later use, or give away. My wife has been … Continue reading
The Homebrew Chef
In looking for brew recipes, I came across this website, The Homebrew Chef. There’s some great food recipes on here, using beer, which is something I appreciate in cooking. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any appropriate homebrews to use in these recipes, but I’m really happy about the food I made, as well as the one coup de grace that is in the works. Here’s the recipes, as written: Continue reading
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The Beermonger Shop
Quick post – there’s a new beer purveyor more- or- less in my neighborhood, The Beermonger. It’s great to see anyone making a go at it with a new business these days, and especially great to have another brew shop here in beervana. That being said, it looks like they’ve got some growing to do still, in terms of selection and decor. The good folks over at It’s Pub Night were at the opening, and wrote a good post about the night and the shop here.
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Oregano Pale Ale
I’m a big fan of the book, The Homebrewer’s Garden, we’ve been using it as our reference this summer for a lot of our hop garden questions, and hopefully will end up using it if/when we move on to grain growing also. There’s also some fun recipes included, for some unusual sounding beers. I know Bison makes a yummy Continue reading
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8th Annual A.H.A. Mead Day
Yogi Bear eat your heart out (and get that replacement liver on order)! It’s that time of year again. The sun is shining, the skies are blue as can be, and the birds and the bees are, well… you know. Continue reading
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Old Recipe, New Post
Well it looks like it will have been 2 months since the last thing was posted on here unless I do something about it. Imagine that… guess I’ve been doing way to much drinking and not enough brewing.
So without further delay, I present what I initially wanted to call Hop Head Red, until I realized that beer already exists. Damn sub-conscious bullshit. So it’s called, simply, The Hopped Red Ale. Continue reading
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Hop Garden update/ Spring Cleaning
With a snowboarding trip, friends in town, rainy weekends, and work being acquired, I haven’t found a lot of time to tend to the hops in a while (or update – it’s been a month!), but they have been growing … Continue reading
Can’t we all just drink and get along?
Beer Wars.
It is the one of the “buzz” topics of the beer blogging world as of late and boy was I excited to see it. Then I found out…
Beer Wars was to be scheduled live for 8pm EASTERN time with a TAPE DELAY on the west coast. “Damn” I thought, after all we have done as a state to support and consume some of the best beer in the nation (not being elitist here, but seriously check out some of California’s breweries) , I must admit, I was slightly bummed but not enough from stopping me from seeing the movie. But then, and let me repeat, BUT THEN…
…being blessed/cursed with living in L.A., I was fortunate enough to be turned on by the Meetup.com group for BeerGeek.la to the real live broadcast screening of Beer Wars. Not tape delayed, not at 8pm, but at 5:00pm at UCLA. And, the icing on the cake, was the fact it was 20 minutes from my work 30 minutes after I got off. WOOHOO! I was walking to see Beer Wars for free!
I arrived, got my ticket, waited to sit down, and watched the movie.
Overall, I would say it was definitely worth watching. Granted, documentaries can be slow, but when the topic involves something of interest to you, the mundane can suddenly be transported to the front of you brain and become more important than the rabid squirrel trying to make friends with your shoe while your standing in line.
Trust me, it happens. Just don’t ask me about it.
Beer Wars did a great job of highlighting the strong hold major corporations have on the beer industry while, at the same time, showing the rising stars that are soon to become the major players and produce what we now know as “real beer”.
As a brewer and drinker of beer, I, as well as many others, am grateful to Beer Wars for painting a picture of the true landscape of brewing in America today.
Thanks to those involved.
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The Brewlog’s New Home
At first glance you might not notice, but The Brewlog has had some major enhancements. First off, we have our very own .com domain name much more relevant that that screwy zasper.com name (who ever the hell that guy is). But more importantly, we have moved to a faster and more reliable host which translates to not waiting 10 gut wrenching seconds for a page to load like you are reliving the glory days of dial-up.
And don’t worry about any old links, all traffic to the old site will be re-routed to its proper location on the new server. Cheers.
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