My first home brewing experience

After much research and preparation and a little improvisation, I finally brewed my first batch of beer. I made some mistakes but I learned a lot. I apologize for the lack of photos but I was so intent on doing everything correctly that I forgot to take pics of the process. Here’s the blow-by-blow from [...]

Beer, Beer, Beer

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Have a pint on me;)

Homemade vs store-bought fermenters

Advice by the bucketful In my last post, I said that I was going to try to get a food-grade bucket and make my own fermenter. That proved to be harder than I imagined. I had read that bakeries are a good place to get buckets because they get big buckets of icing, which is [...]

My visit to the local brew store.

After reading Joel’s post on his visit to his local brew store, I decided to visit mine. I live in Little Rock, Arkansas and our store is called Fermentables There I meet Jeff. Jeff was really excited I was wanting to learn more about beer. He gave me the grand tour, they had everything you [...]

Real girls drink beer

Pure Blonde Beer

Choosing the right glass for your beer

As with any hobby or interest (or obsession?), you can take your love of beer to lengths that some may call ridiculous. I would venture to say that most beer drinkers, even those who consider themselves to be serious beer drinkers, don’t think about using the proper glass for a particular beer. Maybe it seems [...]

How beer is made

HowStuffWorks.com has an interesting article on how beer is made, or to use their lingo, How Beer Works. I’ve been researching how beer is made for my home brewing experiment but this article looks at how commercial breweries do it. There are obvious similarities, of course, but there are some differences. You start with the [...]

The beer kit

Think globally, buy locally I headed down to my local beer shop to see what was available for the home brewer. I was pleasantly surprised to find a decent selection of grains and yeasts, as well as some equipment. The best part, however, was talking to a real, live human about brewing. He was able [...]

Let’s make some beer!

I love beer. I’m also a hands-on, do-it-myself kind of guy. It makes sense, then, that I would enjoy making my own beer although I have never tried anything like it. So, I’m going to do a little experiment. I’m going to try making my own beer and document the process here. I’ve done some [...]