Archive for October, 2006

Well, I’ve selected my next brew: the gingerbread ale mentioned in Randy Mosher’s Radical Brewing. Of course, the recipe isn’t exactly what I’d call “detailed”:
 The base brew should be a soft brown ale, lightly hopped, with no pronounced hop aroma.
The question is, then, how do I make such an ale?


My First Pitch

15Oct06

So I actually brewed my first beer one week ago yesterday, with the help of friendly neighborhood expert Kevin. Kevin was in charge and did most of the “head” work in terms of deciding how long to boil the wort and so on, but we actually got the recipe from my friend Leah. It was [...]


So this would be my Adventures in Beer blog. I’m new to the hobby, having fairly arbitrarily decided to take it up about a month ago, and this here blog is basically a document of my progress. I’m hoping to post pictures, comment about my brewing process, and of course, talk about drinking too much [...]