I wish Chuck D lived in my attic.

My last IPA (basically a Papazian recipe):

8.75 pounds pale malt extract syrup
1.0 pound crystal malt
0.5 pound malted barley (toasted in oven for 10 minutes @ 350F)
2 tsp. gypsum
2-3 oz Northern Brewer Hops (how brave you is?)
1-2 oz Cascade Hops (again)
35 mL White Labs British Ale Yeast (#WLP005)

- Toast malted barley @ 350F for 10 minutes
- crack malted barley in ziplock bag using rolling pin or hammer
- add grains and gypsum to 1.5 gallons water, bring to boil.
- remove grains.
- add malt extract, northern brewers hops - boil for 59 minutes.
- add cascade hops for bouquet and flavor for 1 additional minute.
- take from boil, strain off of hops into glass carboy with 3.5 gallons of cool water.
- pitch yeast when tempreature has cooled to below 75 fahrenheit
- Wait two weeks, rack beer off sediment to a second glass carboy.
- Wait two weeks, rack beer off sediment into a sanitized bucket with 1 cup corn sugar boiled in 1 quart of water.
- Bottle primed beer
- wait 4 weeks (IPAs like to mature)
- guzzle.
- repeat.


- pagoda: i highly recommend reading charlie papzian's "New Complete Joy of Homebrewing," it is extremely helpful.

have fun.

haq - do you know if there will be any NYC Obnish in attendance at sxsw who could stash away a bottle to bring to you? I'm really going to try and brew up a batch in time for sxsw - i have some friends who want me to run a little training session.

I'm here, I'm here! Damn that west coast time difference!

Actually, I had ONE beer last night, after a killer night of rock climbing. It was very pedestrian... Red Hook IPA, and had a weird aftertaste.

Never had mead before, but everything Colin says is true (from what I've read and heard from others). Colin, you need to tell me how to brew hard cider. Now, if I could get my husband to brew that up, I'd be in heaven!

Mmm, alcoholic ginger ale... this could be very tasty.

Dana -

There's actually a dude in Oregon who builds these awesome cider presses . . .

And here's how to make it!

It doesn't look like it's technically hard, but it does look like it takes a lot of apples, because cider is usually made from 100% juice. Otherwise, it's usually part apples, supplemental sugar, and fermented to make apple wines.

Now that I am in Texas for a few years, I'm not going to get to try making cider unril I move North . . . but I will move north as soon as the ink is dry on my Ph.D.

Already got it!

I'll buy a sixer of that stout.

I'll try to make sxsw, but we might be on tour again, and not in TX.

Beer is my favorite.

I don't know how to make it, but that's OK - I've never been quite sure how to make babies either...

Non Music Related: Beer

is like saying

Non Sex Related: Asians

LOL!!

I could go for a beer right now. To cure the hangover I have. Alcohol got me in this mess, alcohol will get me out.

I am having a helluva time finding this one beer at any liquor store in the Chicago area:
Bert Grant's Scottish Ale

It's brewed in Portland, and the only place I've found it around here is a bar called The Gingerman.

Any of y'all seen it?
Know where to get it to bring home?

great quote, and an even better philosophy...

Todd... I don't find a web page for Grant's or Yakima Brewing, but you could always call their hq to find out where it's distributed in your area...

(509) 575-1900

yup, that is my philosophy on life. that, and i'm still trying to figure out this beer IV ordeal.

soon, victory shall be mine!

Or:

Alcohol: the cause of.....and solution to.....all of life's problems.


--Homer Simpson

Just got back to the Redlands home office; Having a screwdriver.

Attn. Chuck D:

-I've never ran into anybody who brewed a true "Triple Bock" like Sam Adams and some others brew (an alcohol content not unlike barley wine); more of a sipping beverage. Any interest? And what would it take?

-Do y'all have muscadine in Texas? Muscadine wine can be really good.

did you see what godddd just did to us, man?

You jumped me dOOdz.

Of course, I was slow on the uptake to try to make the joke, because I thought it said mescaline straight-out.

I have a couple of recipes for barley wines that i haven't tried yet, but I'll have to look around for a Trippelbock recipe - I don't have any.

I don't know if muscadine grapes grow this far west - i'm going to look into this, as i'm really interested in learning to make wine.

I do know that mescaline can be found in a couple of species of cacti that grow in the Trans-Pecos of Texas, but that the cacti are sort of endangered because of overcollection.