Duh. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code is not a comedic document yet I laughed aloud after reading Subchapter C Section 102.51. It goes something like this: SUBCHAPTER C. TERRITORIAL LIMITS ON SALE OF BEER Sec. 102.51. SETTING OF TERRITORIAL LIMITS. (a) Each holder of a manufacturer’s or nonresident manufacturer’s license shall designate territorial limits in [...]
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The state of the art Like many homebrew beer makers I also roast coffee. It’s quick and simple to produce better java than you can buy in most shops. While not a natural pairing, beer and coffee go together. There’s coffee porter, coffee stout, ..uh… espresso porter…. I like to do things differently. I thought [...]
Just a quick homebrew update. My three-tier stand is great, but I kept melting hoses when they would touch the hot metal. Luckily none ever burst and spewed hot wort all over, but I knew that was just a matter of time. So a friend and I got out the torches and hard-plumbed the stand. [...]
My second try at an Altbier turned out better than the first. Alt One got an infection from the MiniBrew plastic conicals I was using. A tragedy, because it tasted so good coming out of the kettle. Alt Two is not my own recipe, but a concoction from Jamil Zainasheff’s Brewing Classic Styles. Scaled up [...]
It is 14.6° Plato and Something Else is three weeks old. Starting at 25.2º P, the big gravity beer weighs in at a small 6.2% ABV. Before putting it all away for conditioning a little evaluation is in order. There is a little ester in the nose. No hop aroma. The uncarbonated beer is sweet, [...]
Read from the bottom up: Today I brewed The Domestic for a second time. It is a Classic American Pilsner, also called a Pre-Prohibition Lager. The recipe is from Jamil Zainasheff’s book Brewing Classic Styles. 12.5º Plato OG 80% German Pilsner 20% Flaked Maize Rest at 148ºF for 60 minutes Mash out to 160ºF Collect [...]
A few people I follow on Twitter set up a nifty new site designed around brewing questions. Using technology from StackOverflow the best answers bubble up to the top of each question, meaning you need not search through a lengthy forum post to find the right answer. Surf on over to BrewAdvice or check out [...]
One of my friends asked what equipment she should get her boyfriend so he could start making beer. There are many equipment articles out there and here is one more Note: If I were to write this up again, I would recommend the Australian brew-in-a-bag method rather than all the all-grain equipment. I don’t know [...]
Triple Digits is gone. It was good with room for improvement. The hop bitterness was a little harsh and it should bee lighter. Here are some tasting notes: spicy clove phenolics alcohol warmth yeast aroma fine, thin head effervescent creamy malt, finishing dry medium body earthy hop bitterness lingers in the back of your throat
