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Tag: beer

  • Beer Recipe: 1492 IPA

    This is the recipe for my 1492 IPA, which is based on a kit IPA. It’s an extract beer, and at some point down the road I may modify it to become an all-grain beer. I wasn’t particularly concerned with gravity on the first batch of this beer, so I don’t have that info at…

  • 2012 Brewing Plans

    I was goofing around in Microsoft Project the other evening and decided to map out my various beers and meads that I was hoping to make. Given the limited amount of space that I have for fermentation in my apartment, I wanted to plan things out and determine how many 5 gallon glass carboy secondary…

  • Minion Brewing: 1492 IPA

    It may be Lent, and I may not be drinking (20 days to go!), but that certainly won’t stop me from making beer. Last weekend (March 10) my friend and I decided to brew a batch of beer. It was my turn to get the kit, so I went to the homebrew supply store and…

  • California Adventure: Triple Rock Brewery

    Tuesday was the last day that I was going to do any drinking until Easter, and with an entire afternoon to kill, I decided to visit Triple Rock Brewery, which was just down the road and seemed like a place worth visiting. Triple Rock is apparently one of the older breweries in the area, with…

  • California Adventure: the Quest for the Beer Wench

    A few weeks ago, while planning my trip to California, one of my brewing friends suggested that I stop by Bison Brewing and locate someone known to the Internet as “The Beer Wench”. Yesterday, as part of my afternoon of wandering Berkeley solo, I decided to track down the Beer Wench. After finishing up my…

  • I love grilling

    For the past few days, I’ve spent some time at my parents grilling, and I’ve forgotten how much I love that grill. Sunday night, after the soccer game, I had a few friends over for ribfest: Two racks of baby back ribs, seasoned in a dry rub overnight and then slow-roasted for a few hours…

  • An Awesome Weekend

    Disclaimer: this is going to be a very, very long post. Friday I got the camera lens on my Evo fixed, so I can finally take clear pictures again. Take a peek… Before: my copy of Halo (which arrived a day late, by the way…way to go, Amazon) looking quite hazy. After: tasty chocolate covered…

  • Time for an experiment

    I have concluded, after the last 24 hours, that I’m sick. Not in a major, show-stopping, don’t-shake-my-hand kind of way, but I’m sick. It’s probably the beginning of the bi-annual sick that I get around this time every fall and spring when the seasons go through their major changes and my body decides it doesn’t…